STRAIGHT AND LEVEL

According to our local almanac bank calendar Spring officially begins on March 20th and a most welshycome time it is Flowers begin b looming leaves sprout on the limbs of certain trees the air smells fresh with the pleasant odor of many plants and above all we just feel good and become excited and eager to get that antique or classic out of its winter shelter and into the air Although the temperatures will vary greatly according to where we live Spring does come someshytimes early and sometimes late Off icially it begins during the annual Sun N Fun Fly-In at Lakeland Florida this year

W hen we talk about the weather conditions over a short period of time say during past Sun N Fun Fly- Ins at Lakeland when they were held during the latter part of each january most of us remember those cold w indy or ra iny days which we expected wou ld be bright and sunny Well remembered was the Lakeshyland Fly- In a few years back that most of us jokingly called the Snow N Freeze Fly-In Waking up on that Wednesday morning to find 1 to 2 inches of snow on the ground did not fulfill the desire to be in the land of sunshine Last year the wind blew and it was cold How well we remember the wind blowing through the commercial exhibit tent with the tent posts jumping up and down like pile drivers Evenshytually some of the tie-downs came out of the sandy ground collapsing one side of the tent

We apologize to the fine Sun N Fun people for talking about the inclement weather over which they had no control They have worked hard to make the event the tremendous success it has become Our expuiences with the bad weather were definitely offshyset by the fantastic good times had by all at each of the previous Sun N Fun fly-Ins Had we not enjoyed our past trips we would not have returned each of the following years By changing the date of the FlyshyIn from january to March there will definitely be many good changes and advantages for both Sun N Fun

By Brad Thomas

committees and those of us participating in the events The weather should be mild and pleasant for the

Fly-In in March We can take our summer clothes out of the moth balls and get them ready for use in the good Florida spring season Most of us will have our show aircraft out of the hangars and ready for the coming fly-ins At the past Sun N Fun Fly- Ins held in january it was practically impossible to fly open cockshypit aircraft especially from the middle and northern states It was highly probable that we would get weathered in for several days on the trip to or from Lakeland which made the thought of the trip an imshypossible dream from a practical point of view Now with the new dates in March most of us should have no problems getting to and from Lakeland

The Sun N Fun committees want us to come and participate exact ly as the name suggests The sun should be just right for the ladies to get that early tan and all of us can look forward to the functions of the Fly- I n with the re laxed attitude we so enjoy The site facilities have been improved with the adshydition of a new permanent commercial exhibit buildshying improvements in the camping area taxi areas and the overall grounds The fine members of Antique Classic Chapter 1 better known as the Florida Sport Aviation Antique amp Classic Association will be our hosts Plans are underway to have a facility available where AntiqueClassic members and guests can meet and relax on the Sun N Fun grounds Nothing is more desirable than these courtesies being offered by Chapter 1 When you drop by this facility let them know how much you appreciate their efforts

Sightseeing while on your trip to Sun N Fun this year should enable you to enjoy the many attractions available in the Lakeland area Disney World still commands the largest attraction for many just off 1-4 west of Orlando one or two days can easily be spent here enjoying the varied attractions In the imshymediate area of Disney World lies the marine-oriented

attraction of Sea World If you have not yet witnessed the performances of Shamu the two-ton killer whale and the other marine shows and exhibits your Florida trip is incomplete

The Orlando area includes the well-known Wings and Wheels Museum now open and operating at the Orlando International jetport A museum with exciting and intriguing aircraft and automobiles it should be included in your itinerary Many of the aircraft on exhibit are licensed and flyable and are rare examples of machi nes of early aviation

Turning west on 1-4 at Lakeland you are headed toward the great historical city of Tampa Here you can tour the Busch Gardens containing 278 acres of beautiful grounds with tropical trees flowers and shrubs see performances of trained birds in the amphitheatre visit the Busch Brewery and ride on the space-age monorail through an African scene where live African animals roam free and live in a natural setting

In the Winter Haven area you can visit the famous Cyprus Gardens where tropical plants and flowers are featured along with a famous and thrilling water ski show of champions Nearby are the Masterpiece Gardens the Florida Citrus Showcase and the Bok Tower all within a short driving distance

All in all plan your trip to the 1980 Sun N Fun Fly-In to include as many of the above attractions as can be scheduled Primarily you will be attending a unique Fly-In which in 1975 its first year saw 1980 registered participants representing 32 states In 1979 there were 12488 registered participants with an adshyditional public attendance of 2615 All 50 states were represented last year

As with Oshkosh when you have attended one Sun N Fun Fly-In there is no doubt in your mind that you will make plans to attend the next Well see you in Lakeland during March 16-22

(photo by Dick Stouffer)

This Arrow Sport was manufactured in 1929 in Linco ln N ebraska and is now on display in th e Terminal Buildshying at th e Lin coln Municipal Airport Th e plane wa s

Editorial Staff

Publisher Paul H Poberezny

Editor Gene R Chase

flown to many fly-ins in the Midwest by its owner Dr Roy Cram of Burwell Nebraska

Associate Editors H Glenn Buffington Edward D Williams Byron (Fred) Fredericksen Lionel Salisbury

Readers are encouraged to submit stories and photographs Associate Editorships are assigned to those writers who submit five or more articles whi ch are published in THE VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE during the current yea r Associates receive a bound volume of THE VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE and a free one-year membership in the Division for their effort s POLICY-Opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributo r Directors

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MARCH 1980 VOLUME 8 NUMBER 3 (On The Cover Seen al Oshkosh 79 was Ihis handsome 1946 Taylorerafl BCI2-D NC44101 sin 9901 owned b y George T Buechle of Pin conning Michigan Pholo by Ted Kos lon )

(On Th e Ba ck Cover De Havilland Tiger M Olh on display in its Ca nadia n Navy co lors and W ltn me ri ghl w ing panels folded back Fr lohn Ma cGillivray d onaled lhis M Olh in 1964 10 th e fAA Air Museum Foundation At Ihat lime il carr ied Canadian registr y CF-IVO Ph0 10 b y Gene Chase

TABLE OF CONTENTS Strai ght and Level by Brad Thomas 2 AC News by Gene Chase 4 AIC Hot Line _ 4 New Chapter Formed At Arli ngton Fly-In 5 Laird Super Solution Project Progress Report by Gene Chase 8 Clarence Prest and The Prest Baby Pursuit by Ray Cocking 9 The Kemp Air-Cooled Aeroplane Motors by Ed Esca ll o n 12 Resurrecting A Swallow by Larry Cowell _ 16 National Stearman Fly-In by Tom Lowe bull 18 Ca lendar Of Events 21 A Curtiss Album by George Hardi e Jr 22 Borden s Aeroplane Posters From The 1930s by Lionel Salisbury 24 Letters 26

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Classic Division 12 monthly issues of THE VINTAGE A IRPLANE one year memshybership in the Experimental Aircraft Associa ti on and separate membership cards SPO RT AVIATION magazine not included

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(photo by Dick Stouffer)

This Arrow Sport was manufactured in 1929 in Linco ln N ebraska and is now on display in th e Terminal Buildshying at th e Lin coln Municipal Airport Th e plane wa s

Editorial Staff

Publisher Paul H Poberezny

Editor Gene R Chase

flown to many fly-ins in the Midwest by its owner Dr Roy Cram of Burwell Nebraska

Associate Editors H Glenn Buffington Edward D Williams Byron (Fred) Fredericksen Lionel Salisbury

Readers are encouraged to submit stories and photographs Associate Editorships are assigned to those writers who submit five or more articles whi ch are published in THE VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE during the current yea r Associates receive a bound volume of THE VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE and a free one-year membership in the Division for their effort s POLICY-Opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributo r Directors

Claude l Gray Ir Mo rl o n W les te r 9635 Sylvia Avenue P O Box 3747 PRESIDENT Norrhridgc CA 91324 Marti nsv ill e VA 14 11 2

W BRAD THOMAS JR 301 DODSON MILL ROAD

Dale A Gu stafsonPILOT MOUNTAIN NC 27041 7724 Shady Hill Dri ve Arthu r R Morgan

919368-2875 Home Indianap o li s IN 46174 3744 NOrlh SIS Blvd Milwauk ee WI 53116919368-2291 Office

Ri chard H Wagner VICE-PRESIDENT PO Box 181 Jo hn R Turgya n JACK C WINTHROP Lyon s WI 53 148 1530 Ku ser Road ROUTE 1 BOX 111 Trenfon N I 086 1Y

ALLEN TX 75002 2141727-5649 AI Kelch

bb W 612 N Madi so n Ave nu e SECRETARY Ceda rburg WI 530 11

M C KELLY VIETS Advisors7745 W 183RD ST

STILWELL KS 66085 lohn S Copeland Sian Gomo ll Gene Morri s913681-2303 Home

9 Joann e Drive 1041 90th l ane NE 27 Chandelle Drive 913782-6720 Office W estborough M A 01 581 Minn eapo li s M N 55434 Hampsh ire ll 60 140

TREASURER Ronald Fritz Rob ert E Kesel George S YorkE E BUCK HILBERT

1989 Wilson NW 455 Oa kridge Dri ve 18 1 Sloboda AvePO BOX 145 Gra nd Rapi ds MI 49504 Roch ester NY 14617 Mansfield OH 441)06

UNION IL 60180 815923-4205

THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE (ISSN 0091-6943) is owned exclusively by EAA AntiqueClassic Division Inc and is published monthly at Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130 Second class Postage pa id at Hales Corners Post Office Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130 and addit ional mailing offices Membersh ip rates for EAA AntiqueClassic Division Inc are $1400 per 12 month period of which $1000 is for the publication of THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE Membership IS open to all who are interested in aviation

Tti~ VI~TA(7~ AII2VLA~~ OFFICIAL MAGAZINE

EAA ANTIQUECLASSIC DIVISION INC

of THE EXPER IMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Copyright 1980 EAA AntiqueClassic Divi sion Inc All Rights Reserved

MARCH 1980 VOLUME 8 NUMBER 3 (On The Cover Seen al Oshkosh 79 was Ihis handsome 1946 Taylorerafl BCI2-D NC44101 sin 9901 owned b y George T Buechle of Pin conning Michigan Pholo by Ted Kos lon )

(On Th e Ba ck Cover De Havilland Tiger M Olh on display in its Ca nadia n Navy co lors and W ltn me ri ghl w ing panels folded back Fr lohn Ma cGillivray d onaled lhis M Olh in 1964 10 th e fAA Air Museum Foundation At Ihat lime il carr ied Canadian registr y CF-IVO Ph0 10 b y Gene Chase

TABLE OF CONTENTS Strai ght and Level by Brad Thomas 2 AC News by Gene Chase 4 AIC Hot Line _ 4 New Chapter Formed At Arli ngton Fly-In 5 Laird Super Solution Project Progress Report by Gene Chase 8 Clarence Prest and The Prest Baby Pursuit by Ray Cocking 9 The Kemp Air-Cooled Aeroplane Motors by Ed Esca ll o n 12 Resurrecting A Swallow by Larry Cowell _ 16 National Stearman Fly-In by Tom Lowe bull 18 Ca lendar Of Events 21 A Curtiss Album by George Hardi e Jr 22 Borden s Aeroplane Posters From The 1930s by Lionel Salisbury 24 Letters 26

EAA ANTIQUECLASSIC DIVISION MEMBERSHIP o NON-EAA MEMBER - $2200 Includes one year membership in the EAA Antique

Classic Division 12 monthly issues of THE VINTAGE A IRPLANE one year memshybership in the Experimental Aircraft Associa ti on and separate membership cards SPO RT AVIATION magazine not included

o EAA MEMBER - $1400 Includes one year membership in the EAA Anti queClass ic Division 12 monthly issues of THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE AND MEMBERSHIP CARD (Appli can t must be current EAA member and must give EAA membership number )

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[JjG [J000 by Gene Chase

Each month hu ndred s of newsl ett ers are received at EAA Headquarters from chapters type clubs and flying clubs from allover the world Although th ey vary greatly in appearance th ey share a common mi sshysion which is communication among m embers of th e group each represents

In most cases the newsletter editors are writin g only for th e readers on hi s or her mailing list but frequently these communications contain newsworthy items which would be of int erest to a much greater audience

The following are extractions from th e current crop of newsl ett ers See i f you don t agree that there are some mighty interesting things going on in the world of antiqu elclassic sport aviation

MASS FLIGHT OF ANTIQUE ULTRALIGHTS TO OSHKOSH 80

Plans for this event have been underway since November 1978 This is the brainchild of Garth Elshyliott AIC 2126 who is frantically working on his E-2 Cub restoration with which he plan s to participat e Garth has been spreading the word through his U nshycommon Cub Newsletter and originally the plan s included only Taylor E- 2 and j-2 Cubs with a limit of 40 hp

Soon int erest began running very high in the venshyture and the Dacys of Harvard Illinoi s offered the use of their airport and Dick and jeanni e Hill also of Harvard offered to host a fly-in on Friday and Saturshyday Augu st 1 and 2 Thi s will be the assembly point for the grand flight to Oshkosh early on August 3

As word got around Garth began rece iving more and more requests for information about the flight Many of th ese were from owners of ultralights other than Cubs so Garth decided to open up the mass flight to other aircraft such as Aeronca C-2s and C-3s American Eaglets Taylorcrafts Rose Parakeets Curshytiss Wright juniors etc th e criteria being 60 hp or less

To have some control over what comes into th e fly-in th e meet is to b e invitational in nature To be invited will simply require sending a letter to Richard C Hill P O Box 89 Harvard IL 60033 To receive The Uncommon Cub Newsletter contact Garth Elshyliott Second Line W es t Meadowvale Ontario LOj 1KO Canada

CESSNA 120140 MIGRATION TO OSHKOSH 80

Next summer groups of l20s and 14 0s will leave Northern Ca lifornia for a three week trip to th e EAA Conve nti on at Oshkosh Wisco nsin This is th e ulti shymate sharin g experi ence as we m ove from town to town at a leis ur ely pace flying loose formation and enjoying the hospi tality th at ca n only be found in th e small town s of our nati o n Already 13 people at Santa Ynez Ca li forni a have signed up to go Keep th e las t week of july and th e first 2 weeks of A ugus t open for the pilgrimage Were planning for 25 airpl anes Th ere will be places along the route for th e f irst few days where people leaving from different places ca n meet and join up with us Fo r more information co nshytact jim Barker Vi ce President W es t Coas t Cessna 1201140 Club 25636 Franklin 1 Hayward CA 94544 Telephone 415581-7083

BRAND NEW KEN ROYCE ENGINES

Roy Good of Aircraft and Engine Enterprise Box 70 Moore Oklahoma 73060 is plannin g to manufacshyture Ken Royce 120 hp 7-cy lind er radi al engin es from original tooling for sale to persons loo king for such an engin e for rep li cas of o ld-tim e aircraft If interested contact him as he wants to know how much demand there might be This was the old LeBlond engine later renam ed Ken Royce

NEW STC FOR SWIFTS

Congratulations to Chu c k Li sc h er who ha s reshyce ived th e multiple-u se type STC for hi s Swift sti ck control co nversion Chuck wanted sti ck control s in his Swift so he designed built and in stalled them Next came flight testing rev ising refi ning and then building th e production model In th e meantime he was satisfying every whim of the FAA with the proshyverbial rea m s of pap er work flight tes t data etc Chuck is rapidly filling all orders on hand and acshycepting new orders for this conversion The first ten conversions will cost $150000 and th e seco nd ten $195000 Fo r details contact him at 1732 Ano Neuvo Diamond Bar CA 91765 Telephon e 714598-1369 This information was in a news letter publi shed by th e Inshyternational Swift Association Inc P O Box 644 Athens TN 37303

Also included in this particular issu e of th e Swift newsletter were two articles concerning th e merits of stub wing tips versus stock tips and correcting inshystability problems in some Swifts which seem to be bears to handle during slow flight and cross wind landings All Swift owners should find this newsl etshyter now in its 12th year to be well worth the cost of dues in th e I nternational Swift Association

Ale HOT LINE

BELLANCA MODELS 14-13 AND 14middot13middot2

Th e FAA has issu ed a General Aviation Airworthishyness A lert cove ring the wing attach fittings in th e above aircraf t Reports have been received of findshying severe intergranular corrosion of wing straps and co rroded bolts These air craf t are arou nd the 1947 vintage

Luscombe fin atta chment fitting as supplied b y Univair

LUSCOMBE MODEL 8

Responding quickly to th e Luscomb e AD (as des shycribed o n page 26 of th e February 1980 issue of The VI N TAGE A IRPLA N E) Univair Aircraft Corporation Route 3 Box 59 Aurora CO 80011 telephone 3031 364middot7661 has rece ived a PMA from th e FAA for th e design and manufacture of a replacem ent fin attachshyment fittin g for use in Luscombe airplanes This part is applicable to Lu sco mb e series 8 aircraft with roun d ve rti ca l stab ilize rs and is a 4130 steel repla ce ment for th e original cas t aluminum Lu sco mbe fitting (PN 28444 or 28453) which may be required to be scrapped and replaced per AD79-25-05 Univair s p art number is U-28444 for th e fitting

This part is available for immediate shipment FOB Univair The pri ce is $4950

AUTOMOTIVE GASOLINE IN AIRPLANES

In spite of press report s to th e co ntrary NASA will und ertak e a program to evalua te automotive gasoshyline for use in airplanes as a result of a recent m eetshying between FAA and NASA officials NASA will promiddot bably let out contracts to privat e firms to make thi s study Emphasis will be placed on methods of modifyshying existing fuel systems in production airplanes and especially those aircraft with engines that were cershytified for use of 80 octane fu el

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NEW CHAPTER FORMED AT ARLI NGTON FLY-IN

by Charles W Lindenberg 2 14 M eadow Place SE

Everett WA 98 204

The Tenth Annual EAAAAA Fly-In at Arlington Washington had special meaning for the local anshytique and classic owners AI Kelch of Cedarburg Wisconsin and on the Board of Directors of the AnshytiqueClassic Division of the Experimental Aircraft Association presented Dave Tatom with the charter for the newly formed Chapter 9 Along with Presishydent Dave oth er Chapter Officers ar e Lou Walshylick Vice President Harvey Brown Secretary and Gary Nelson Treasurer

The annual event which started Friday August 10 featured a do-it-yourself steak cook-out barbecued over glowing coals Saturday saw the biggest crowds both spectators and airplanes w i th aircraft parked almost the length of the runway After a magnificent spaghetti feed that night the Chapter was officially organized th e awards w ere presented and the dancshying to a live band took over

Jack Lanning accepted the Vintage Class Award for his beautiful Travel Air 4000 The Antique Award went to Hal Wighton s Lincoln Page PTW which hed picked up at Oshkosh Fred Ellsworth s restored PT-19 took the Warbird Award and the Classic Award went to Ted Brownells Cessna 190

The weather had been perfect and Sunday morning dawned clear and warm for the pan cak e and ham breakfast Many departed for the Abbottsford Air Show and by mid-afternoon the fly-in had become history

There had been 698 registrations for th e event with about 1800 attending the Saturday dinner and an estimated 3000 people showed up in all Many thanks to all those who put in long hours and still managed to smile to make thi s on e of the most successful fly-ins in th e Pacific Northwest

(Photo b y the Auth or)

Th e Class ic A ward went to this beautifulv res tored Cessna 190 It hails from Yelm Washington and belongs to th e Brownells

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Jim Fernandez owns this rare Tilll lll p erh aps th e only one li v ing wcia) Brightl y co lored t e l1 t ~ clo tteci th e area as th e ca mpers enio)ed perfect w eath er (Ph oto by Toni Lindenberg

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(Photo hy th Author)

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Chapler I i horn AI Ipch pwcnb Ihe birth cerlificale to Prt(enl Dave Tdotll while Jackie Raxler Jack Lanshyning wII Did 13]xler look on

(Phuto by the Authur)

The chOlv linl (or Ihe rricfd) ni~hl )ou-cook- ttll Ieak (c The hdn~r al() Plvc(lor Ihc tllceling alHI dancing

(Pholo by Toni Lindenberg)

Phil and Judy Taylor make a low pass in their Travel Air4000

(Pholo by Toni Lindenberg)

The Vintage Award winner This clark blue and cream Travel Air 40()O with a Wright J- 5 belongs to Ja ck Lanning

LAIRD SUPER SOLUTION

PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT

iJy C(nl Cha se

Th e Laird is in the stage of co nstruction where many details are being completed which really dont show as progress in a photo The con trol system is comshyplete th e instruments are being installed in the panel th e stream line aluminum fairings for th e stabilizers fin and head res t are made as are th e fuselage formers and stringers

The fabric envelopes for the wing panels have been sewn up hy Audrey Poberezny and are ready to go Dick Wagner of Wag-Aero has taken the wheel pant molds to hi s shop and has volunteered to make the wh eel pants Bill Chomo is making up and installing th e airspeed pitot system

The project is definitely on target for being on display at Oshkosh 80 in flying cond ition

(Phuto by Tim Marstaller)

hl Laird iuwr Solution i C ( up fur rigging One of (h e (ll()rdr y J)lVo()c -s (ruh i in plac( Jfre

EAA m echanic Daryl Lenz fits bilizer fairings on the Laird

(Photo by Tim Marstallef)

EAA m echanic Bauken Noack installing one of the flyshying wires on the Laird The beautiful laminated birch shystrut is shown in (his vi ew

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CLARENCE PRESTAND

THE PREST pABY PURSUIT

by Ray Cock ing (EAA 16154 A IC 233 0) 3468 Barnaby Court Riverside CA 92504

Editors Note After th e following story was set in print we received the following additional informashytion from au thor Ray Cocki ng abou t Clarence Prest Quoting from Whos Who in Aviation published in 1942 Clarence Oliver Prest Born in Clinton Iowa October 24 1896 Learned to fly at Domingez Field California in 1911 Logged hours 5000 Established Word s speed record for Class C planes San Bershynadino California in 1930 Exhibition pilot 1911 to 191 5 Chi ef Instructor Riv erside Aircraft Company 196 to 1917 Pilot Manufacturer and aviation salesshyman 1918 to 1932 Developed Electrolytic template process for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation used on the Boeing Flying Fortress for Boeing Douglas and Vega Companies M ember of the Early Birds and Proshyfessional Pilots Association

Fre(1 Schuman and Clarence Prest and a Cu rti ss Oriole w ith high lift wings

Clarence Prest lived in San Bernadino California just a few doors from where Leland S Lee Miles th e famous race pilo t lived Clarence and Lee were long tim e friends

Shortly after World War One Prest opened an aircraft plant in Arlington California nea r Riverside He retailed large quantities of surplus aircraft parts which he purchased from the government as did so many at that time

1 remember as a thirteen year old boy going to Prests and seeing all th e rows of Gnome Le Rhone OX5 Hi sso and other engines plu s rows of fuselages for Jennys and Orioles

Clarence had a brilliant mind and was always exshyperimenting with high lift wings for his Oriole and Jenny His OX5 Oriole with a high lift wing attained an altitude of 14000 feet

Prest also built a high lift parasol wing for an Oriole that moved out at 140 mph with a 165 hp Gnome rotary engine

The story I heard concerning the origin of the Baby Pursuit was Prests idea to build and sell them to the Chinese Government I know of two that were built one with an Anzani 60 hp and one with the 45 hp Sze kely SR-3 engi ne Otto Graser a close friend of Pres t said six were built so maybe a few did get

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to China The planes had a lot of performance and were very aerobatic

Th e last Baby Pursuit belonged to Ernie Fillinger of Lan cas ter California before its untimely demise It had a 65 hp engine mounted in it which they say gave it excep tional performance

Clarence flew his Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit to a World Speed Record of 1008 mph in the cateshygory for single place aircraft undEr 440 pounds empty

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Clarence Pres t in his record-setting Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit

Specifications were

Span 24 feet Chord 49 inches Wing Area 92 square feet Length 17 feet 11 inches Empty Weight 475 pounds Useful Load 225 pounds Gross Weight 700 pou nds High Speed 90 mph Stall 40 mph Climb - First Minute 700 fpm

The photos accompanying this article are 01 Pr es t s Anzani-powered Baby Pursuit and w ere taken at Eddie Martin s Airport Santa Ana California (except where indicated)

From AERO DI GEST April 1930 shy The design of the Prest Baby Pursuit a semi-cantilever

monoplane produced in Arlington California by Pres t Airp lane and MOlOrs incorporates an unu sual arrangeshymen t at the fuselage To permit fa stening th e wing di rectl) to the top comer of the fu selage just above th e level of the pi lots eyes resu l ting in the m inimum obslruct ion to vision th e fuselage is lurn ed up on edg e The pilol has normal vi sion forward downward and above In Ihe construct ion of Ihe fuselage major s tresse~ are disshytribu led 10 th e entire stru cture directly from th e attach fi tt ings Th e p lane is powered with a Szekely SR-3 45 hp engin e

Th e wing is semi-can tilever wilh solid ane laminate(1 spruce beams of full lenglh pieces wilh no splices in th e one piece wing Th e wing wa s covered wi lh Fligh tex

Internal drag struls are of chrome-molybdenum steel tubing weldec into a truss and bolted 10 Ih e beams Th e

elrag bracing is double and is of round Ma cwh yle tie rods with sa fe lo ck fittings Chrome-molybdenum is us ed Ihroughoul in Ih e constru clion including sheet fittings anel tubing Th e fu el lanks are of aluminum pickleel and v ibralion tes ted according 10 Navy sp ecifica lions Th e landing gear is itteel with C russ Air Siruts A Consolishydateel ins trum ent panel is provided

The ailerons are controlled b y means of cables withshyin the wing and a push-pull tube to th e wing from the iorque tube Th e wing may be removed wi thout loosenshying th e ca ble or pulleys one pin being pulled to disshyconnect th e ailerons Th e wing is des igned to be reshymoved by two men in approximately ten minutes

The ai lerons extend 10 fu ll leng th of th e trailing edge and have a chord of 4 inch es their tala I area being 65 square (eel

Th e entire ship is constructed on a jig anel a ll of the par) are interchangeable with equivalent parIgt Th e conshy

struction 01 th e fu selage (a eili tates manufac ture in jigs and it is ((signed 10 come (rom the jig in alignmenl so that the landing gear wings and olher p arts lla) be fa stened without Ihting or forcing

During Worl d W ar Two Pres t develop ed and p ashytented a cheap fas t and accurate m eth od o f cop yin g templates and pattern s by w hat h e ca ll ed th e elec troshylyti c reprodu cti o n sys tem It was es timated th at Pres t s sys tem saved Loc kh eed Doug las and Vega A ir cra ft Co mp anies over 150000 m anh o urs during th eir proshyduc ti o n of th e fam ous B-17 bo mber during th e ea rl y part o f W o rld W ar Two and advancin g th e bo mber pro du ction schedul e by three months

Fro m th at peri od on Pres t gave up ac tive fl ying and devoted all o f hi s tim e to engin eerin g ac tiv i ti es fo r Loc kh eed

Th e o nl y kn own parts of an orig in al Baby Pursuit now belo ng to Glenn Beets in King llJan A rizona

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64 5 N orth Wh eeling Ave nu e Mun cie Indiana 47303

Photos by Cary Alexander (Except As Noted)

KEMP AEROPLA N E MOTORS

Editor s N ote Brad Th om as Pres ident of th e Antique Cla ss ic Di vision received th e allowing leller from EAA m e mhe r Morton E Clark 3 10 Soldier Creek Roa d Cran ts Pass Oregon 9751 6 Knowing that Kemp motors w ere m anufactured in Mun cie Indiana we contacted Ed EscalshyIon o th at c it y to see w hat he might kno w about th em We were pleawcl to learn that Ed not onl y kne w who th e su ccess or compan y to Kemp was and had seen th e subshyject engine on cli splay but that he had planned to write a story Ed s s tory follows Morton s le ll er We hope you will t njo y reaciing abo ut the unique and re liable Ke mp powe rplants

Cene Chase

Dear Mr Thomas Some years ago while working for an aircraft sales

company in Southern California I had the opporshytunity of reconstructing an engine of some historical significance The origin and technical data of its manushyfacture or date was not known by any of us at the time but it appeared to be built for aircraft use and not a modified engine of some other function

When I was asked if the recently acquired boxes of rusty broken parts could be made to look like an engin e and mounted on a stand I had some misshy

glvlngs This included a propeller with one blade broken off at the hub I looked intently at the boss to see if it was all a joke but he only smiled and said do what you can then walked off It proved to be a very interesting project

At a time when most engines were liquid cooled this one had cylinders that had cooling fins totally machined from what may have been tubular steel stock The crankshaft appeared to be cut from a heavy plate to the shape of crank-throws and then the jourshynals machined round The crankcase was cast alumishynum An external camshaft made from a length of tubing with cast iron lobes which were slid on the tubing and pinned to the proper degrees was driven by external gears and no lubrication was provided

The valve arrangement was quite unique One massive exhaust valve operated by the camshaft through push rods and rocker arms had a small poppet type intake valve within itself The intake valve opened only as the piston on its downward stroke created a vacuum and sucked the intake mixture into the cylinder As the piston entered the compression stroke the valve closed with an assist from a small coil spring on the valve stem and it all worked

The connecting rods were a bronze alloy with poured babbit bearings reamed to size Not unlike the old 1 model Ford Pistons and rings were cast iron and very heavy

In the box of parts I found a carburetor and a sinshygle magneto They both seemed to be original with the exception of a mounting plate for the magneto I finally fabricated an assembly for it incorporating a vernier coupling from a Ranger mag drive (The only non-standard part)

Also found in the box were four steel bands which it was determined were some sort of control of exshy

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(Photo Courtesy Morton E Clark)

Morton E Clark with th e Kemp Model 1-4 engine which h e restored and ran Th e can mounted above th e engine served as th e temporary gas tank

haust gasses that were allowed to escape through ports drilled in the cylinders immediately below the lowest fin Scavenging of the cylinders was not only through the exhaust valves but also through these ports One can imagine the smoke oil and noise from this sysshytem

The propeller was carved from very soft wood with oak plates glued front and rear in the hub area The

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blad es w ere cove red with fabric secured with case in glue and painted silver

A few days aft er co mpl et ion of thi s proj ec t the boss had a wild idea th at it ju st might run At thi s point I feared he had lost so me marbles but to paci fy him I adapted a tachometer thro ttl e switch and a one ga llon can of gasoline A good deal of priming a deep sigh and a frisky snap of th e propelshyler was all that was needed to get this thing shuddershying to life Not thinking it might run I had not proshyvided it with any kind of retention so we all spent th e next moment or two trying to stop it from colliding with everything in the shop Well I guess the boss wasnt nuts after all All in all it was a rewarding as well as an interes ting tim e for me

As I understand this engine is now on static disshyplay at the Kemp Foundry amp Machine Works (address unknown) and has created a lot of curiosity and inshyterest in that area It is also li sted in Jan es All Th e World s Aircraft Us e the photos and story as you wish

Very truly yours Morton E Clark EAA 19947 AIC 693

In 1905 George Kemp founded the Kemp Machine Works in Muncie Indiana to perform general machine work for th e industry in the area He took great inshyterest in th e flying which th e Wrights were doing in nearby Dayton around 1910 and he became involved in th e form ation of a Muncie Aero Club Several flyshying machines were constructed by this group and hopped in st raight away runs Appar ently further enthused by thi s activity Mr Kemp decided to build an engine of his own des ign but unlike most of its contemporaries it was to be air-cooled

The Kemp Machine Works first engin e was built in April 1911 and so ld to D E Denni s of Franklin Indiana It was a four-cylinder in-lin e configuration producing 240 pounds of thru st at 1400 rpm swinging a propeller 6-6 long with a 4-6 pitch

Production of engines continued through the year including seve ral variations and improvem ents Six Model B engines followed th e first engine with 17 Model Cs and one Model D produ ced before th e year was out In 1912 produ ction continued with ten more Model Ds and four Model Es Al so a new sixshycy linder engine known as the F-6 was introduced and three were so ld

Most of th e early Kemps were used on Bleriot or Curtiss machin es as well as other homebuilt airshycraft

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The Kemp engine as il looks loday on displa y al lh e B K Machine Company in Muncie Indiana

Sa les records of th e co mpan y revea l so m e inshyteres ting names that would reoccur in later av iation history including engine 58 built in 1914 sold to W B Kinn er who later produced hi s own radial s common to many thirti es and forties vintage aircraft including Fl eets and Rya ns In 1916 H aro ld F Pitshyca irn of Byrn Athyn Penn sy lvania pur chased two 2-cy linder G-2s engin e 73 with ri ght h and rot ashytion and engin e 75 with lef t hand rotation Pitcairn biplanes would later be used to haul mail for th e start of Eas tern Airlines and still later Pitcairn would build autogyros

Th e mo tor Made in Muncie for Particular People Ever ywh e re saw se rvi ce allover th e world Cusshytom ers includ ed people from Buenos Aires Singashy

pore Yokahama and Rio de Jani ero as well as Alaska The two-cy linder opposed and V-8 configuration s

were added to th e produ ct lin e in 1913 and 1914 respectively In 1917 aircraft engine prod uction was discontinued due partially to shortages o f material s during th e war It is probabl e that th e forthcoming surplus of in exp ensive OX-5 s may also have been a factor

The last aeroplane motor was an 1-4 Seri al Numshyber 80 so ld to Harvey Tarlin g of Breckenridge Minshynesota as a demonstrator for $378 whi ch was 30 off retail

Claimed as th e first air-cooled aeronautical motor built in th e Unit ed States (Europea ns had u sed air coo ling as earl y as 1909 and early Curtiss engines also were air-coo led ) the GRAY EAGLES were well thought out and ahead of their tim e in many fea tures For exa mple th e cy linders w er e co mple te ly machined out of a so lid billet of steel including th ei r radiatin g fins or flanges which wer e stat ed to be scientifishyca ll y co nstru cted and proportioned with as mu ch care as th e bore of the cy linder Although far mor e difshyficult than making cast fins Kemp s machin ed fin s were thou ght to eliminate th e hard scale of cas t fin s and thus in crease hea t tr ansfe r Well over thirt een years after Kemp started production Prall and Whitshyney subs cr ibed to th e same philosophy for th ei r radials

Kemp piston rings were ground and th en shot peened to improve th e unifor mity of th eir spring tension By virtue of thi s th e vertical clea rance to th e piston groove could be made as low as 005 thus preventing ca rbo n accumulation and unde rshyfiring A two-rin g piston was used

Additional features included a hot air connection furnished for winter tim e which ducted ai r from th e cylinders to the carburetor providing an ea rly form of carburetor heat It would be th e late twenti es beshyfore this practi ce became co mmonp lace in engi n e design

Lubri ca ti o n was fairly co nv enti o nal for th at day usin g pressure-fed main bea rings and co nn ect in g rods which scooped th eir o il out of th e crankcase O ILZUM was th e reco mm end ed lubri ca ting oi l

The eng in e was well finished with all ex tern al steel parts ni ckel plated and cas tings polished Th e two- four- and six-cylinder engin es w er e large ly variations of each other All fea tured a main bearing between each crankshaft throw

A rath er uniqu e valving arrangement was com mo n to th ese engin es which is partially ev ident in th e acshyco mpanying photographs A co nce ntri c intake and exhaust valve were fitt ed to th e centerlin e of a reshy

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movable head The intake valve was spring loaded closed being sucked open by the vacuum created by the downward piston on the intake stroke In a most unusual manner the exhaust valve was fitted conshycentrically around the intake taking an inverted cup shape in the process It was opened by a conshyventional overhead rocker arm and side mou nted cam Intake gasses were admitted to the underside of the exhaust valves cup and then entered the cylinder through the concentrically positioned inshytake valve The exhaust gasses escaped around the outer periphery of the exhaust valve and exited through the four ports evident in the photographs

A further unique feature of the engine is a series of 8 ports at the lower end of the sweep of the pisshyton stroke effectively venting the cylinder at the end of each intake and exhaust stroke These ports are visible in the photographs Their main function was to discharge exhaust gasses thus improving the scavshyenging of the engine For starting these ports are cove~ed with a hose clamp affair and then after the engine is running the hose clamp is lowered exposshying the ports A noticeable power increase is apparent One might surmise that the concentrically fitted valves are probably very effective at cooling the hot exhaust valve but somewhat marginal at providing a good mixture during the intake stroke due to th e presencE of excess burnt gas around the intake valve region

Engine design called for a crankshaft speed of 1150 to 1200 rpm to maintain a high prop efficiency Paragon and Flotrop propellers were the most comshymonly used props Idling speed was determined by the minimum speed at which the engine did not gallop

Much of the emphasis of the Kemp Machine Works advertising stressed the advantages of the air-cooled engine Reduced weight and cooling drag were foreshymost advantages Kemp claimed that an air-cooled motor could provide 20-25 more power from its fuel than a water cooled engine or about t~ice the aircraft range for an equal horsepower

In case any EAAers run into a newfound Kemp the starting procedure is rather simple First a reshycharge of the permanent magnets in the magn eto is recommended Then actual starting is accomplished by priming through the exhaust valve directly into the cylinder The spark advance is th en retired (retarded) Then the needle valve on the top of the Stromberg carburetor is pressed until the bowl fills Finally the engine is propped to start it Indications are that most Kemps always start on the first blade

Although very different from the two- four- and six-cylinder engines the V-8 was a well advanced en-

Th e nameplate is on the right ide of the uclllkcae directl y below th e ex ternal camshaft

It should be mentioned in passing that th e Paragon The arguments of water coo ling versus air cooling propeller had a very wide chord and scimitar shape were never rea lly settled even as late as World War to th eir blades Consequently they were shipped to II with manufa cturers lik e Allison Rolls and Packard the customers in long and wide wooden boxes These lined up against Pratt and Whitney Wright Warner shipping crates used in co mbination with old newsshy Kinner Ranger et al Kemp m ay have begun the disshypapers serv~d well as a irport bunks for many of cussion in this country but th e deba te was never the young aspiring people of this era including E M settled Ma tty Laird and the other kids at Cicero Field in Chicago

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

Model HP No K-2 14 M-2 10

As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

Tucson AZ 857 6

Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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ati()nal ~tea man r=ly~ln

Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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(Photo hy th Author)

-Ia I Wi~hlon d (ortller LlIcolJlJ( j()ckey pic kttl lip Ihe prize-winning Lin c()ln Iage ITW al O hkosh II Ion Ihl Inliqul Iw](c

I Photo by the Author)

Chapler I i horn AI Ipch pwcnb Ihe birth cerlificale to Prt(enl Dave Tdotll while Jackie Raxler Jack Lanshyning wII Did 13]xler look on

(Phuto by the Authur)

The chOlv linl (or Ihe rricfd) ni~hl )ou-cook- ttll Ieak (c The hdn~r al() Plvc(lor Ihc tllceling alHI dancing

(Pholo by Toni Lindenberg)

Phil and Judy Taylor make a low pass in their Travel Air4000

(Pholo by Toni Lindenberg)

The Vintage Award winner This clark blue and cream Travel Air 40()O with a Wright J- 5 belongs to Ja ck Lanning

LAIRD SUPER SOLUTION

PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT

iJy C(nl Cha se

Th e Laird is in the stage of co nstruction where many details are being completed which really dont show as progress in a photo The con trol system is comshyplete th e instruments are being installed in the panel th e stream line aluminum fairings for th e stabilizers fin and head res t are made as are th e fuselage formers and stringers

The fabric envelopes for the wing panels have been sewn up hy Audrey Poberezny and are ready to go Dick Wagner of Wag-Aero has taken the wheel pant molds to hi s shop and has volunteered to make the wh eel pants Bill Chomo is making up and installing th e airspeed pitot system

The project is definitely on target for being on display at Oshkosh 80 in flying cond ition

(Phuto by Tim Marstaller)

hl Laird iuwr Solution i C ( up fur rigging One of (h e (ll()rdr y J)lVo()c -s (ruh i in plac( Jfre

EAA m echanic Daryl Lenz fits bilizer fairings on the Laird

(Photo by Tim Marstallef)

EAA m echanic Bauken Noack installing one of the flyshying wires on the Laird The beautiful laminated birch shystrut is shown in (his vi ew

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CLARENCE PRESTAND

THE PREST pABY PURSUIT

by Ray Cock ing (EAA 16154 A IC 233 0) 3468 Barnaby Court Riverside CA 92504

Editors Note After th e following story was set in print we received the following additional informashytion from au thor Ray Cocki ng abou t Clarence Prest Quoting from Whos Who in Aviation published in 1942 Clarence Oliver Prest Born in Clinton Iowa October 24 1896 Learned to fly at Domingez Field California in 1911 Logged hours 5000 Established Word s speed record for Class C planes San Bershynadino California in 1930 Exhibition pilot 1911 to 191 5 Chi ef Instructor Riv erside Aircraft Company 196 to 1917 Pilot Manufacturer and aviation salesshyman 1918 to 1932 Developed Electrolytic template process for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation used on the Boeing Flying Fortress for Boeing Douglas and Vega Companies M ember of the Early Birds and Proshyfessional Pilots Association

Fre(1 Schuman and Clarence Prest and a Cu rti ss Oriole w ith high lift wings

Clarence Prest lived in San Bernadino California just a few doors from where Leland S Lee Miles th e famous race pilo t lived Clarence and Lee were long tim e friends

Shortly after World War One Prest opened an aircraft plant in Arlington California nea r Riverside He retailed large quantities of surplus aircraft parts which he purchased from the government as did so many at that time

1 remember as a thirteen year old boy going to Prests and seeing all th e rows of Gnome Le Rhone OX5 Hi sso and other engines plu s rows of fuselages for Jennys and Orioles

Clarence had a brilliant mind and was always exshyperimenting with high lift wings for his Oriole and Jenny His OX5 Oriole with a high lift wing attained an altitude of 14000 feet

Prest also built a high lift parasol wing for an Oriole that moved out at 140 mph with a 165 hp Gnome rotary engine

The story I heard concerning the origin of the Baby Pursuit was Prests idea to build and sell them to the Chinese Government I know of two that were built one with an Anzani 60 hp and one with the 45 hp Sze kely SR-3 engi ne Otto Graser a close friend of Pres t said six were built so maybe a few did get

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to China The planes had a lot of performance and were very aerobatic

Th e last Baby Pursuit belonged to Ernie Fillinger of Lan cas ter California before its untimely demise It had a 65 hp engine mounted in it which they say gave it excep tional performance

Clarence flew his Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit to a World Speed Record of 1008 mph in the cateshygory for single place aircraft undEr 440 pounds empty

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Clarence Pres t in his record-setting Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit

Specifications were

Span 24 feet Chord 49 inches Wing Area 92 square feet Length 17 feet 11 inches Empty Weight 475 pounds Useful Load 225 pounds Gross Weight 700 pou nds High Speed 90 mph Stall 40 mph Climb - First Minute 700 fpm

The photos accompanying this article are 01 Pr es t s Anzani-powered Baby Pursuit and w ere taken at Eddie Martin s Airport Santa Ana California (except where indicated)

From AERO DI GEST April 1930 shy The design of the Prest Baby Pursuit a semi-cantilever

monoplane produced in Arlington California by Pres t Airp lane and MOlOrs incorporates an unu sual arrangeshymen t at the fuselage To permit fa stening th e wing di rectl) to the top comer of the fu selage just above th e level of the pi lots eyes resu l ting in the m inimum obslruct ion to vision th e fuselage is lurn ed up on edg e The pilol has normal vi sion forward downward and above In Ihe construct ion of Ihe fuselage major s tresse~ are disshytribu led 10 th e entire stru cture directly from th e attach fi tt ings Th e p lane is powered with a Szekely SR-3 45 hp engin e

Th e wing is semi-can tilever wilh solid ane laminate(1 spruce beams of full lenglh pieces wilh no splices in th e one piece wing Th e wing wa s covered wi lh Fligh tex

Internal drag struls are of chrome-molybdenum steel tubing weldec into a truss and bolted 10 Ih e beams Th e

elrag bracing is double and is of round Ma cwh yle tie rods with sa fe lo ck fittings Chrome-molybdenum is us ed Ihroughoul in Ih e constru clion including sheet fittings anel tubing Th e fu el lanks are of aluminum pickleel and v ibralion tes ted according 10 Navy sp ecifica lions Th e landing gear is itteel with C russ Air Siruts A Consolishydateel ins trum ent panel is provided

The ailerons are controlled b y means of cables withshyin the wing and a push-pull tube to th e wing from the iorque tube Th e wing may be removed wi thout loosenshying th e ca ble or pulleys one pin being pulled to disshyconnect th e ailerons Th e wing is des igned to be reshymoved by two men in approximately ten minutes

The ai lerons extend 10 fu ll leng th of th e trailing edge and have a chord of 4 inch es their tala I area being 65 square (eel

Th e entire ship is constructed on a jig anel a ll of the par) are interchangeable with equivalent parIgt Th e conshy

struction 01 th e fu selage (a eili tates manufac ture in jigs and it is ((signed 10 come (rom the jig in alignmenl so that the landing gear wings and olher p arts lla) be fa stened without Ihting or forcing

During Worl d W ar Two Pres t develop ed and p ashytented a cheap fas t and accurate m eth od o f cop yin g templates and pattern s by w hat h e ca ll ed th e elec troshylyti c reprodu cti o n sys tem It was es timated th at Pres t s sys tem saved Loc kh eed Doug las and Vega A ir cra ft Co mp anies over 150000 m anh o urs during th eir proshyduc ti o n of th e fam ous B-17 bo mber during th e ea rl y part o f W o rld W ar Two and advancin g th e bo mber pro du ction schedul e by three months

Fro m th at peri od on Pres t gave up ac tive fl ying and devoted all o f hi s tim e to engin eerin g ac tiv i ti es fo r Loc kh eed

Th e o nl y kn own parts of an orig in al Baby Pursuit now belo ng to Glenn Beets in King llJan A rizona

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64 5 N orth Wh eeling Ave nu e Mun cie Indiana 47303

Photos by Cary Alexander (Except As Noted)

KEMP AEROPLA N E MOTORS

Editor s N ote Brad Th om as Pres ident of th e Antique Cla ss ic Di vision received th e allowing leller from EAA m e mhe r Morton E Clark 3 10 Soldier Creek Roa d Cran ts Pass Oregon 9751 6 Knowing that Kemp motors w ere m anufactured in Mun cie Indiana we contacted Ed EscalshyIon o th at c it y to see w hat he might kno w about th em We were pleawcl to learn that Ed not onl y kne w who th e su ccess or compan y to Kemp was and had seen th e subshyject engine on cli splay but that he had planned to write a story Ed s s tory follows Morton s le ll er We hope you will t njo y reaciing abo ut the unique and re liable Ke mp powe rplants

Cene Chase

Dear Mr Thomas Some years ago while working for an aircraft sales

company in Southern California I had the opporshytunity of reconstructing an engine of some historical significance The origin and technical data of its manushyfacture or date was not known by any of us at the time but it appeared to be built for aircraft use and not a modified engine of some other function

When I was asked if the recently acquired boxes of rusty broken parts could be made to look like an engin e and mounted on a stand I had some misshy

glvlngs This included a propeller with one blade broken off at the hub I looked intently at the boss to see if it was all a joke but he only smiled and said do what you can then walked off It proved to be a very interesting project

At a time when most engines were liquid cooled this one had cylinders that had cooling fins totally machined from what may have been tubular steel stock The crankshaft appeared to be cut from a heavy plate to the shape of crank-throws and then the jourshynals machined round The crankcase was cast alumishynum An external camshaft made from a length of tubing with cast iron lobes which were slid on the tubing and pinned to the proper degrees was driven by external gears and no lubrication was provided

The valve arrangement was quite unique One massive exhaust valve operated by the camshaft through push rods and rocker arms had a small poppet type intake valve within itself The intake valve opened only as the piston on its downward stroke created a vacuum and sucked the intake mixture into the cylinder As the piston entered the compression stroke the valve closed with an assist from a small coil spring on the valve stem and it all worked

The connecting rods were a bronze alloy with poured babbit bearings reamed to size Not unlike the old 1 model Ford Pistons and rings were cast iron and very heavy

In the box of parts I found a carburetor and a sinshygle magneto They both seemed to be original with the exception of a mounting plate for the magneto I finally fabricated an assembly for it incorporating a vernier coupling from a Ranger mag drive (The only non-standard part)

Also found in the box were four steel bands which it was determined were some sort of control of exshy

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(Photo Courtesy Morton E Clark)

Morton E Clark with th e Kemp Model 1-4 engine which h e restored and ran Th e can mounted above th e engine served as th e temporary gas tank

haust gasses that were allowed to escape through ports drilled in the cylinders immediately below the lowest fin Scavenging of the cylinders was not only through the exhaust valves but also through these ports One can imagine the smoke oil and noise from this sysshytem

The propeller was carved from very soft wood with oak plates glued front and rear in the hub area The

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blad es w ere cove red with fabric secured with case in glue and painted silver

A few days aft er co mpl et ion of thi s proj ec t the boss had a wild idea th at it ju st might run At thi s point I feared he had lost so me marbles but to paci fy him I adapted a tachometer thro ttl e switch and a one ga llon can of gasoline A good deal of priming a deep sigh and a frisky snap of th e propelshyler was all that was needed to get this thing shuddershying to life Not thinking it might run I had not proshyvided it with any kind of retention so we all spent th e next moment or two trying to stop it from colliding with everything in the shop Well I guess the boss wasnt nuts after all All in all it was a rewarding as well as an interes ting tim e for me

As I understand this engine is now on static disshyplay at the Kemp Foundry amp Machine Works (address unknown) and has created a lot of curiosity and inshyterest in that area It is also li sted in Jan es All Th e World s Aircraft Us e the photos and story as you wish

Very truly yours Morton E Clark EAA 19947 AIC 693

In 1905 George Kemp founded the Kemp Machine Works in Muncie Indiana to perform general machine work for th e industry in the area He took great inshyterest in th e flying which th e Wrights were doing in nearby Dayton around 1910 and he became involved in th e form ation of a Muncie Aero Club Several flyshying machines were constructed by this group and hopped in st raight away runs Appar ently further enthused by thi s activity Mr Kemp decided to build an engine of his own des ign but unlike most of its contemporaries it was to be air-cooled

The Kemp Machine Works first engin e was built in April 1911 and so ld to D E Denni s of Franklin Indiana It was a four-cylinder in-lin e configuration producing 240 pounds of thru st at 1400 rpm swinging a propeller 6-6 long with a 4-6 pitch

Production of engines continued through the year including seve ral variations and improvem ents Six Model B engines followed th e first engine with 17 Model Cs and one Model D produ ced before th e year was out In 1912 produ ction continued with ten more Model Ds and four Model Es Al so a new sixshycy linder engine known as the F-6 was introduced and three were so ld

Most of th e early Kemps were used on Bleriot or Curtiss machin es as well as other homebuilt airshycraft

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The Kemp engine as il looks loday on displa y al lh e B K Machine Company in Muncie Indiana

Sa les records of th e co mpan y revea l so m e inshyteres ting names that would reoccur in later av iation history including engine 58 built in 1914 sold to W B Kinn er who later produced hi s own radial s common to many thirti es and forties vintage aircraft including Fl eets and Rya ns In 1916 H aro ld F Pitshyca irn of Byrn Athyn Penn sy lvania pur chased two 2-cy linder G-2s engin e 73 with ri ght h and rot ashytion and engin e 75 with lef t hand rotation Pitcairn biplanes would later be used to haul mail for th e start of Eas tern Airlines and still later Pitcairn would build autogyros

Th e mo tor Made in Muncie for Particular People Ever ywh e re saw se rvi ce allover th e world Cusshytom ers includ ed people from Buenos Aires Singashy

pore Yokahama and Rio de Jani ero as well as Alaska The two-cy linder opposed and V-8 configuration s

were added to th e produ ct lin e in 1913 and 1914 respectively In 1917 aircraft engine prod uction was discontinued due partially to shortages o f material s during th e war It is probabl e that th e forthcoming surplus of in exp ensive OX-5 s may also have been a factor

The last aeroplane motor was an 1-4 Seri al Numshyber 80 so ld to Harvey Tarlin g of Breckenridge Minshynesota as a demonstrator for $378 whi ch was 30 off retail

Claimed as th e first air-cooled aeronautical motor built in th e Unit ed States (Europea ns had u sed air coo ling as earl y as 1909 and early Curtiss engines also were air-coo led ) the GRAY EAGLES were well thought out and ahead of their tim e in many fea tures For exa mple th e cy linders w er e co mple te ly machined out of a so lid billet of steel including th ei r radiatin g fins or flanges which wer e stat ed to be scientifishyca ll y co nstru cted and proportioned with as mu ch care as th e bore of the cy linder Although far mor e difshyficult than making cast fins Kemp s machin ed fin s were thou ght to eliminate th e hard scale of cas t fin s and thus in crease hea t tr ansfe r Well over thirt een years after Kemp started production Prall and Whitshyney subs cr ibed to th e same philosophy for th ei r radials

Kemp piston rings were ground and th en shot peened to improve th e unifor mity of th eir spring tension By virtue of thi s th e vertical clea rance to th e piston groove could be made as low as 005 thus preventing ca rbo n accumulation and unde rshyfiring A two-rin g piston was used

Additional features included a hot air connection furnished for winter tim e which ducted ai r from th e cylinders to the carburetor providing an ea rly form of carburetor heat It would be th e late twenti es beshyfore this practi ce became co mmonp lace in engi n e design

Lubri ca ti o n was fairly co nv enti o nal for th at day usin g pressure-fed main bea rings and co nn ect in g rods which scooped th eir o il out of th e crankcase O ILZUM was th e reco mm end ed lubri ca ting oi l

The eng in e was well finished with all ex tern al steel parts ni ckel plated and cas tings polished Th e two- four- and six-cylinder engin es w er e large ly variations of each other All fea tured a main bearing between each crankshaft throw

A rath er uniqu e valving arrangement was com mo n to th ese engin es which is partially ev ident in th e acshyco mpanying photographs A co nce ntri c intake and exhaust valve were fitt ed to th e centerlin e of a reshy

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movable head The intake valve was spring loaded closed being sucked open by the vacuum created by the downward piston on the intake stroke In a most unusual manner the exhaust valve was fitted conshycentrically around the intake taking an inverted cup shape in the process It was opened by a conshyventional overhead rocker arm and side mou nted cam Intake gasses were admitted to the underside of the exhaust valves cup and then entered the cylinder through the concentrically positioned inshytake valve The exhaust gasses escaped around the outer periphery of the exhaust valve and exited through the four ports evident in the photographs

A further unique feature of the engine is a series of 8 ports at the lower end of the sweep of the pisshyton stroke effectively venting the cylinder at the end of each intake and exhaust stroke These ports are visible in the photographs Their main function was to discharge exhaust gasses thus improving the scavshyenging of the engine For starting these ports are cove~ed with a hose clamp affair and then after the engine is running the hose clamp is lowered exposshying the ports A noticeable power increase is apparent One might surmise that the concentrically fitted valves are probably very effective at cooling the hot exhaust valve but somewhat marginal at providing a good mixture during the intake stroke due to th e presencE of excess burnt gas around the intake valve region

Engine design called for a crankshaft speed of 1150 to 1200 rpm to maintain a high prop efficiency Paragon and Flotrop propellers were the most comshymonly used props Idling speed was determined by the minimum speed at which the engine did not gallop

Much of the emphasis of the Kemp Machine Works advertising stressed the advantages of the air-cooled engine Reduced weight and cooling drag were foreshymost advantages Kemp claimed that an air-cooled motor could provide 20-25 more power from its fuel than a water cooled engine or about t~ice the aircraft range for an equal horsepower

In case any EAAers run into a newfound Kemp the starting procedure is rather simple First a reshycharge of the permanent magnets in the magn eto is recommended Then actual starting is accomplished by priming through the exhaust valve directly into the cylinder The spark advance is th en retired (retarded) Then the needle valve on the top of the Stromberg carburetor is pressed until the bowl fills Finally the engine is propped to start it Indications are that most Kemps always start on the first blade

Although very different from the two- four- and six-cylinder engines the V-8 was a well advanced en-

Th e nameplate is on the right ide of the uclllkcae directl y below th e ex ternal camshaft

It should be mentioned in passing that th e Paragon The arguments of water coo ling versus air cooling propeller had a very wide chord and scimitar shape were never rea lly settled even as late as World War to th eir blades Consequently they were shipped to II with manufa cturers lik e Allison Rolls and Packard the customers in long and wide wooden boxes These lined up against Pratt and Whitney Wright Warner shipping crates used in co mbination with old newsshy Kinner Ranger et al Kemp m ay have begun the disshypapers serv~d well as a irport bunks for many of cussion in this country but th e deba te was never the young aspiring people of this era including E M settled Ma tty Laird and the other kids at Cicero Field in Chicago

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

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As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

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Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

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lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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(Pholo by Toni Lindenberg)

Phil and Judy Taylor make a low pass in their Travel Air4000

(Pholo by Toni Lindenberg)

The Vintage Award winner This clark blue and cream Travel Air 40()O with a Wright J- 5 belongs to Ja ck Lanning

LAIRD SUPER SOLUTION

PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT

iJy C(nl Cha se

Th e Laird is in the stage of co nstruction where many details are being completed which really dont show as progress in a photo The con trol system is comshyplete th e instruments are being installed in the panel th e stream line aluminum fairings for th e stabilizers fin and head res t are made as are th e fuselage formers and stringers

The fabric envelopes for the wing panels have been sewn up hy Audrey Poberezny and are ready to go Dick Wagner of Wag-Aero has taken the wheel pant molds to hi s shop and has volunteered to make the wh eel pants Bill Chomo is making up and installing th e airspeed pitot system

The project is definitely on target for being on display at Oshkosh 80 in flying cond ition

(Phuto by Tim Marstaller)

hl Laird iuwr Solution i C ( up fur rigging One of (h e (ll()rdr y J)lVo()c -s (ruh i in plac( Jfre

EAA m echanic Daryl Lenz fits bilizer fairings on the Laird

(Photo by Tim Marstallef)

EAA m echanic Bauken Noack installing one of the flyshying wires on the Laird The beautiful laminated birch shystrut is shown in (his vi ew

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CLARENCE PRESTAND

THE PREST pABY PURSUIT

by Ray Cock ing (EAA 16154 A IC 233 0) 3468 Barnaby Court Riverside CA 92504

Editors Note After th e following story was set in print we received the following additional informashytion from au thor Ray Cocki ng abou t Clarence Prest Quoting from Whos Who in Aviation published in 1942 Clarence Oliver Prest Born in Clinton Iowa October 24 1896 Learned to fly at Domingez Field California in 1911 Logged hours 5000 Established Word s speed record for Class C planes San Bershynadino California in 1930 Exhibition pilot 1911 to 191 5 Chi ef Instructor Riv erside Aircraft Company 196 to 1917 Pilot Manufacturer and aviation salesshyman 1918 to 1932 Developed Electrolytic template process for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation used on the Boeing Flying Fortress for Boeing Douglas and Vega Companies M ember of the Early Birds and Proshyfessional Pilots Association

Fre(1 Schuman and Clarence Prest and a Cu rti ss Oriole w ith high lift wings

Clarence Prest lived in San Bernadino California just a few doors from where Leland S Lee Miles th e famous race pilo t lived Clarence and Lee were long tim e friends

Shortly after World War One Prest opened an aircraft plant in Arlington California nea r Riverside He retailed large quantities of surplus aircraft parts which he purchased from the government as did so many at that time

1 remember as a thirteen year old boy going to Prests and seeing all th e rows of Gnome Le Rhone OX5 Hi sso and other engines plu s rows of fuselages for Jennys and Orioles

Clarence had a brilliant mind and was always exshyperimenting with high lift wings for his Oriole and Jenny His OX5 Oriole with a high lift wing attained an altitude of 14000 feet

Prest also built a high lift parasol wing for an Oriole that moved out at 140 mph with a 165 hp Gnome rotary engine

The story I heard concerning the origin of the Baby Pursuit was Prests idea to build and sell them to the Chinese Government I know of two that were built one with an Anzani 60 hp and one with the 45 hp Sze kely SR-3 engi ne Otto Graser a close friend of Pres t said six were built so maybe a few did get

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to China The planes had a lot of performance and were very aerobatic

Th e last Baby Pursuit belonged to Ernie Fillinger of Lan cas ter California before its untimely demise It had a 65 hp engine mounted in it which they say gave it excep tional performance

Clarence flew his Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit to a World Speed Record of 1008 mph in the cateshygory for single place aircraft undEr 440 pounds empty

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Clarence Pres t in his record-setting Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit

Specifications were

Span 24 feet Chord 49 inches Wing Area 92 square feet Length 17 feet 11 inches Empty Weight 475 pounds Useful Load 225 pounds Gross Weight 700 pou nds High Speed 90 mph Stall 40 mph Climb - First Minute 700 fpm

The photos accompanying this article are 01 Pr es t s Anzani-powered Baby Pursuit and w ere taken at Eddie Martin s Airport Santa Ana California (except where indicated)

From AERO DI GEST April 1930 shy The design of the Prest Baby Pursuit a semi-cantilever

monoplane produced in Arlington California by Pres t Airp lane and MOlOrs incorporates an unu sual arrangeshymen t at the fuselage To permit fa stening th e wing di rectl) to the top comer of the fu selage just above th e level of the pi lots eyes resu l ting in the m inimum obslruct ion to vision th e fuselage is lurn ed up on edg e The pilol has normal vi sion forward downward and above In Ihe construct ion of Ihe fuselage major s tresse~ are disshytribu led 10 th e entire stru cture directly from th e attach fi tt ings Th e p lane is powered with a Szekely SR-3 45 hp engin e

Th e wing is semi-can tilever wilh solid ane laminate(1 spruce beams of full lenglh pieces wilh no splices in th e one piece wing Th e wing wa s covered wi lh Fligh tex

Internal drag struls are of chrome-molybdenum steel tubing weldec into a truss and bolted 10 Ih e beams Th e

elrag bracing is double and is of round Ma cwh yle tie rods with sa fe lo ck fittings Chrome-molybdenum is us ed Ihroughoul in Ih e constru clion including sheet fittings anel tubing Th e fu el lanks are of aluminum pickleel and v ibralion tes ted according 10 Navy sp ecifica lions Th e landing gear is itteel with C russ Air Siruts A Consolishydateel ins trum ent panel is provided

The ailerons are controlled b y means of cables withshyin the wing and a push-pull tube to th e wing from the iorque tube Th e wing may be removed wi thout loosenshying th e ca ble or pulleys one pin being pulled to disshyconnect th e ailerons Th e wing is des igned to be reshymoved by two men in approximately ten minutes

The ai lerons extend 10 fu ll leng th of th e trailing edge and have a chord of 4 inch es their tala I area being 65 square (eel

Th e entire ship is constructed on a jig anel a ll of the par) are interchangeable with equivalent parIgt Th e conshy

struction 01 th e fu selage (a eili tates manufac ture in jigs and it is ((signed 10 come (rom the jig in alignmenl so that the landing gear wings and olher p arts lla) be fa stened without Ihting or forcing

During Worl d W ar Two Pres t develop ed and p ashytented a cheap fas t and accurate m eth od o f cop yin g templates and pattern s by w hat h e ca ll ed th e elec troshylyti c reprodu cti o n sys tem It was es timated th at Pres t s sys tem saved Loc kh eed Doug las and Vega A ir cra ft Co mp anies over 150000 m anh o urs during th eir proshyduc ti o n of th e fam ous B-17 bo mber during th e ea rl y part o f W o rld W ar Two and advancin g th e bo mber pro du ction schedul e by three months

Fro m th at peri od on Pres t gave up ac tive fl ying and devoted all o f hi s tim e to engin eerin g ac tiv i ti es fo r Loc kh eed

Th e o nl y kn own parts of an orig in al Baby Pursuit now belo ng to Glenn Beets in King llJan A rizona

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64 5 N orth Wh eeling Ave nu e Mun cie Indiana 47303

Photos by Cary Alexander (Except As Noted)

KEMP AEROPLA N E MOTORS

Editor s N ote Brad Th om as Pres ident of th e Antique Cla ss ic Di vision received th e allowing leller from EAA m e mhe r Morton E Clark 3 10 Soldier Creek Roa d Cran ts Pass Oregon 9751 6 Knowing that Kemp motors w ere m anufactured in Mun cie Indiana we contacted Ed EscalshyIon o th at c it y to see w hat he might kno w about th em We were pleawcl to learn that Ed not onl y kne w who th e su ccess or compan y to Kemp was and had seen th e subshyject engine on cli splay but that he had planned to write a story Ed s s tory follows Morton s le ll er We hope you will t njo y reaciing abo ut the unique and re liable Ke mp powe rplants

Cene Chase

Dear Mr Thomas Some years ago while working for an aircraft sales

company in Southern California I had the opporshytunity of reconstructing an engine of some historical significance The origin and technical data of its manushyfacture or date was not known by any of us at the time but it appeared to be built for aircraft use and not a modified engine of some other function

When I was asked if the recently acquired boxes of rusty broken parts could be made to look like an engin e and mounted on a stand I had some misshy

glvlngs This included a propeller with one blade broken off at the hub I looked intently at the boss to see if it was all a joke but he only smiled and said do what you can then walked off It proved to be a very interesting project

At a time when most engines were liquid cooled this one had cylinders that had cooling fins totally machined from what may have been tubular steel stock The crankshaft appeared to be cut from a heavy plate to the shape of crank-throws and then the jourshynals machined round The crankcase was cast alumishynum An external camshaft made from a length of tubing with cast iron lobes which were slid on the tubing and pinned to the proper degrees was driven by external gears and no lubrication was provided

The valve arrangement was quite unique One massive exhaust valve operated by the camshaft through push rods and rocker arms had a small poppet type intake valve within itself The intake valve opened only as the piston on its downward stroke created a vacuum and sucked the intake mixture into the cylinder As the piston entered the compression stroke the valve closed with an assist from a small coil spring on the valve stem and it all worked

The connecting rods were a bronze alloy with poured babbit bearings reamed to size Not unlike the old 1 model Ford Pistons and rings were cast iron and very heavy

In the box of parts I found a carburetor and a sinshygle magneto They both seemed to be original with the exception of a mounting plate for the magneto I finally fabricated an assembly for it incorporating a vernier coupling from a Ranger mag drive (The only non-standard part)

Also found in the box were four steel bands which it was determined were some sort of control of exshy

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Morton E Clark with th e Kemp Model 1-4 engine which h e restored and ran Th e can mounted above th e engine served as th e temporary gas tank

haust gasses that were allowed to escape through ports drilled in the cylinders immediately below the lowest fin Scavenging of the cylinders was not only through the exhaust valves but also through these ports One can imagine the smoke oil and noise from this sysshytem

The propeller was carved from very soft wood with oak plates glued front and rear in the hub area The

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blad es w ere cove red with fabric secured with case in glue and painted silver

A few days aft er co mpl et ion of thi s proj ec t the boss had a wild idea th at it ju st might run At thi s point I feared he had lost so me marbles but to paci fy him I adapted a tachometer thro ttl e switch and a one ga llon can of gasoline A good deal of priming a deep sigh and a frisky snap of th e propelshyler was all that was needed to get this thing shuddershying to life Not thinking it might run I had not proshyvided it with any kind of retention so we all spent th e next moment or two trying to stop it from colliding with everything in the shop Well I guess the boss wasnt nuts after all All in all it was a rewarding as well as an interes ting tim e for me

As I understand this engine is now on static disshyplay at the Kemp Foundry amp Machine Works (address unknown) and has created a lot of curiosity and inshyterest in that area It is also li sted in Jan es All Th e World s Aircraft Us e the photos and story as you wish

Very truly yours Morton E Clark EAA 19947 AIC 693

In 1905 George Kemp founded the Kemp Machine Works in Muncie Indiana to perform general machine work for th e industry in the area He took great inshyterest in th e flying which th e Wrights were doing in nearby Dayton around 1910 and he became involved in th e form ation of a Muncie Aero Club Several flyshying machines were constructed by this group and hopped in st raight away runs Appar ently further enthused by thi s activity Mr Kemp decided to build an engine of his own des ign but unlike most of its contemporaries it was to be air-cooled

The Kemp Machine Works first engin e was built in April 1911 and so ld to D E Denni s of Franklin Indiana It was a four-cylinder in-lin e configuration producing 240 pounds of thru st at 1400 rpm swinging a propeller 6-6 long with a 4-6 pitch

Production of engines continued through the year including seve ral variations and improvem ents Six Model B engines followed th e first engine with 17 Model Cs and one Model D produ ced before th e year was out In 1912 produ ction continued with ten more Model Ds and four Model Es Al so a new sixshycy linder engine known as the F-6 was introduced and three were so ld

Most of th e early Kemps were used on Bleriot or Curtiss machin es as well as other homebuilt airshycraft

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The Kemp engine as il looks loday on displa y al lh e B K Machine Company in Muncie Indiana

Sa les records of th e co mpan y revea l so m e inshyteres ting names that would reoccur in later av iation history including engine 58 built in 1914 sold to W B Kinn er who later produced hi s own radial s common to many thirti es and forties vintage aircraft including Fl eets and Rya ns In 1916 H aro ld F Pitshyca irn of Byrn Athyn Penn sy lvania pur chased two 2-cy linder G-2s engin e 73 with ri ght h and rot ashytion and engin e 75 with lef t hand rotation Pitcairn biplanes would later be used to haul mail for th e start of Eas tern Airlines and still later Pitcairn would build autogyros

Th e mo tor Made in Muncie for Particular People Ever ywh e re saw se rvi ce allover th e world Cusshytom ers includ ed people from Buenos Aires Singashy

pore Yokahama and Rio de Jani ero as well as Alaska The two-cy linder opposed and V-8 configuration s

were added to th e produ ct lin e in 1913 and 1914 respectively In 1917 aircraft engine prod uction was discontinued due partially to shortages o f material s during th e war It is probabl e that th e forthcoming surplus of in exp ensive OX-5 s may also have been a factor

The last aeroplane motor was an 1-4 Seri al Numshyber 80 so ld to Harvey Tarlin g of Breckenridge Minshynesota as a demonstrator for $378 whi ch was 30 off retail

Claimed as th e first air-cooled aeronautical motor built in th e Unit ed States (Europea ns had u sed air coo ling as earl y as 1909 and early Curtiss engines also were air-coo led ) the GRAY EAGLES were well thought out and ahead of their tim e in many fea tures For exa mple th e cy linders w er e co mple te ly machined out of a so lid billet of steel including th ei r radiatin g fins or flanges which wer e stat ed to be scientifishyca ll y co nstru cted and proportioned with as mu ch care as th e bore of the cy linder Although far mor e difshyficult than making cast fins Kemp s machin ed fin s were thou ght to eliminate th e hard scale of cas t fin s and thus in crease hea t tr ansfe r Well over thirt een years after Kemp started production Prall and Whitshyney subs cr ibed to th e same philosophy for th ei r radials

Kemp piston rings were ground and th en shot peened to improve th e unifor mity of th eir spring tension By virtue of thi s th e vertical clea rance to th e piston groove could be made as low as 005 thus preventing ca rbo n accumulation and unde rshyfiring A two-rin g piston was used

Additional features included a hot air connection furnished for winter tim e which ducted ai r from th e cylinders to the carburetor providing an ea rly form of carburetor heat It would be th e late twenti es beshyfore this practi ce became co mmonp lace in engi n e design

Lubri ca ti o n was fairly co nv enti o nal for th at day usin g pressure-fed main bea rings and co nn ect in g rods which scooped th eir o il out of th e crankcase O ILZUM was th e reco mm end ed lubri ca ting oi l

The eng in e was well finished with all ex tern al steel parts ni ckel plated and cas tings polished Th e two- four- and six-cylinder engin es w er e large ly variations of each other All fea tured a main bearing between each crankshaft throw

A rath er uniqu e valving arrangement was com mo n to th ese engin es which is partially ev ident in th e acshyco mpanying photographs A co nce ntri c intake and exhaust valve were fitt ed to th e centerlin e of a reshy

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movable head The intake valve was spring loaded closed being sucked open by the vacuum created by the downward piston on the intake stroke In a most unusual manner the exhaust valve was fitted conshycentrically around the intake taking an inverted cup shape in the process It was opened by a conshyventional overhead rocker arm and side mou nted cam Intake gasses were admitted to the underside of the exhaust valves cup and then entered the cylinder through the concentrically positioned inshytake valve The exhaust gasses escaped around the outer periphery of the exhaust valve and exited through the four ports evident in the photographs

A further unique feature of the engine is a series of 8 ports at the lower end of the sweep of the pisshyton stroke effectively venting the cylinder at the end of each intake and exhaust stroke These ports are visible in the photographs Their main function was to discharge exhaust gasses thus improving the scavshyenging of the engine For starting these ports are cove~ed with a hose clamp affair and then after the engine is running the hose clamp is lowered exposshying the ports A noticeable power increase is apparent One might surmise that the concentrically fitted valves are probably very effective at cooling the hot exhaust valve but somewhat marginal at providing a good mixture during the intake stroke due to th e presencE of excess burnt gas around the intake valve region

Engine design called for a crankshaft speed of 1150 to 1200 rpm to maintain a high prop efficiency Paragon and Flotrop propellers were the most comshymonly used props Idling speed was determined by the minimum speed at which the engine did not gallop

Much of the emphasis of the Kemp Machine Works advertising stressed the advantages of the air-cooled engine Reduced weight and cooling drag were foreshymost advantages Kemp claimed that an air-cooled motor could provide 20-25 more power from its fuel than a water cooled engine or about t~ice the aircraft range for an equal horsepower

In case any EAAers run into a newfound Kemp the starting procedure is rather simple First a reshycharge of the permanent magnets in the magn eto is recommended Then actual starting is accomplished by priming through the exhaust valve directly into the cylinder The spark advance is th en retired (retarded) Then the needle valve on the top of the Stromberg carburetor is pressed until the bowl fills Finally the engine is propped to start it Indications are that most Kemps always start on the first blade

Although very different from the two- four- and six-cylinder engines the V-8 was a well advanced en-

Th e nameplate is on the right ide of the uclllkcae directl y below th e ex ternal camshaft

It should be mentioned in passing that th e Paragon The arguments of water coo ling versus air cooling propeller had a very wide chord and scimitar shape were never rea lly settled even as late as World War to th eir blades Consequently they were shipped to II with manufa cturers lik e Allison Rolls and Packard the customers in long and wide wooden boxes These lined up against Pratt and Whitney Wright Warner shipping crates used in co mbination with old newsshy Kinner Ranger et al Kemp m ay have begun the disshypapers serv~d well as a irport bunks for many of cussion in this country but th e deba te was never the young aspiring people of this era including E M settled Ma tty Laird and the other kids at Cicero Field in Chicago

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

Model HP No K-2 14 M-2 10

As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

Ed Es call o n

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

Tucson AZ 857 6

Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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ct- ~ ~~ -c - shyan old fuselage in a field near Oracle Arizona The

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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ati()nal ~tea man r=ly~ln

Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

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lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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LAIRD SUPER SOLUTION

PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT

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Th e Laird is in the stage of co nstruction where many details are being completed which really dont show as progress in a photo The con trol system is comshyplete th e instruments are being installed in the panel th e stream line aluminum fairings for th e stabilizers fin and head res t are made as are th e fuselage formers and stringers

The fabric envelopes for the wing panels have been sewn up hy Audrey Poberezny and are ready to go Dick Wagner of Wag-Aero has taken the wheel pant molds to hi s shop and has volunteered to make the wh eel pants Bill Chomo is making up and installing th e airspeed pitot system

The project is definitely on target for being on display at Oshkosh 80 in flying cond ition

(Phuto by Tim Marstaller)

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EAA m echanic Daryl Lenz fits bilizer fairings on the Laird

(Photo by Tim Marstallef)

EAA m echanic Bauken Noack installing one of the flyshying wires on the Laird The beautiful laminated birch shystrut is shown in (his vi ew

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CLARENCE PRESTAND

THE PREST pABY PURSUIT

by Ray Cock ing (EAA 16154 A IC 233 0) 3468 Barnaby Court Riverside CA 92504

Editors Note After th e following story was set in print we received the following additional informashytion from au thor Ray Cocki ng abou t Clarence Prest Quoting from Whos Who in Aviation published in 1942 Clarence Oliver Prest Born in Clinton Iowa October 24 1896 Learned to fly at Domingez Field California in 1911 Logged hours 5000 Established Word s speed record for Class C planes San Bershynadino California in 1930 Exhibition pilot 1911 to 191 5 Chi ef Instructor Riv erside Aircraft Company 196 to 1917 Pilot Manufacturer and aviation salesshyman 1918 to 1932 Developed Electrolytic template process for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation used on the Boeing Flying Fortress for Boeing Douglas and Vega Companies M ember of the Early Birds and Proshyfessional Pilots Association

Fre(1 Schuman and Clarence Prest and a Cu rti ss Oriole w ith high lift wings

Clarence Prest lived in San Bernadino California just a few doors from where Leland S Lee Miles th e famous race pilo t lived Clarence and Lee were long tim e friends

Shortly after World War One Prest opened an aircraft plant in Arlington California nea r Riverside He retailed large quantities of surplus aircraft parts which he purchased from the government as did so many at that time

1 remember as a thirteen year old boy going to Prests and seeing all th e rows of Gnome Le Rhone OX5 Hi sso and other engines plu s rows of fuselages for Jennys and Orioles

Clarence had a brilliant mind and was always exshyperimenting with high lift wings for his Oriole and Jenny His OX5 Oriole with a high lift wing attained an altitude of 14000 feet

Prest also built a high lift parasol wing for an Oriole that moved out at 140 mph with a 165 hp Gnome rotary engine

The story I heard concerning the origin of the Baby Pursuit was Prests idea to build and sell them to the Chinese Government I know of two that were built one with an Anzani 60 hp and one with the 45 hp Sze kely SR-3 engi ne Otto Graser a close friend of Pres t said six were built so maybe a few did get

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to China The planes had a lot of performance and were very aerobatic

Th e last Baby Pursuit belonged to Ernie Fillinger of Lan cas ter California before its untimely demise It had a 65 hp engine mounted in it which they say gave it excep tional performance

Clarence flew his Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit to a World Speed Record of 1008 mph in the cateshygory for single place aircraft undEr 440 pounds empty

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Clarence Pres t in his record-setting Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit

Specifications were

Span 24 feet Chord 49 inches Wing Area 92 square feet Length 17 feet 11 inches Empty Weight 475 pounds Useful Load 225 pounds Gross Weight 700 pou nds High Speed 90 mph Stall 40 mph Climb - First Minute 700 fpm

The photos accompanying this article are 01 Pr es t s Anzani-powered Baby Pursuit and w ere taken at Eddie Martin s Airport Santa Ana California (except where indicated)

From AERO DI GEST April 1930 shy The design of the Prest Baby Pursuit a semi-cantilever

monoplane produced in Arlington California by Pres t Airp lane and MOlOrs incorporates an unu sual arrangeshymen t at the fuselage To permit fa stening th e wing di rectl) to the top comer of the fu selage just above th e level of the pi lots eyes resu l ting in the m inimum obslruct ion to vision th e fuselage is lurn ed up on edg e The pilol has normal vi sion forward downward and above In Ihe construct ion of Ihe fuselage major s tresse~ are disshytribu led 10 th e entire stru cture directly from th e attach fi tt ings Th e p lane is powered with a Szekely SR-3 45 hp engin e

Th e wing is semi-can tilever wilh solid ane laminate(1 spruce beams of full lenglh pieces wilh no splices in th e one piece wing Th e wing wa s covered wi lh Fligh tex

Internal drag struls are of chrome-molybdenum steel tubing weldec into a truss and bolted 10 Ih e beams Th e

elrag bracing is double and is of round Ma cwh yle tie rods with sa fe lo ck fittings Chrome-molybdenum is us ed Ihroughoul in Ih e constru clion including sheet fittings anel tubing Th e fu el lanks are of aluminum pickleel and v ibralion tes ted according 10 Navy sp ecifica lions Th e landing gear is itteel with C russ Air Siruts A Consolishydateel ins trum ent panel is provided

The ailerons are controlled b y means of cables withshyin the wing and a push-pull tube to th e wing from the iorque tube Th e wing may be removed wi thout loosenshying th e ca ble or pulleys one pin being pulled to disshyconnect th e ailerons Th e wing is des igned to be reshymoved by two men in approximately ten minutes

The ai lerons extend 10 fu ll leng th of th e trailing edge and have a chord of 4 inch es their tala I area being 65 square (eel

Th e entire ship is constructed on a jig anel a ll of the par) are interchangeable with equivalent parIgt Th e conshy

struction 01 th e fu selage (a eili tates manufac ture in jigs and it is ((signed 10 come (rom the jig in alignmenl so that the landing gear wings and olher p arts lla) be fa stened without Ihting or forcing

During Worl d W ar Two Pres t develop ed and p ashytented a cheap fas t and accurate m eth od o f cop yin g templates and pattern s by w hat h e ca ll ed th e elec troshylyti c reprodu cti o n sys tem It was es timated th at Pres t s sys tem saved Loc kh eed Doug las and Vega A ir cra ft Co mp anies over 150000 m anh o urs during th eir proshyduc ti o n of th e fam ous B-17 bo mber during th e ea rl y part o f W o rld W ar Two and advancin g th e bo mber pro du ction schedul e by three months

Fro m th at peri od on Pres t gave up ac tive fl ying and devoted all o f hi s tim e to engin eerin g ac tiv i ti es fo r Loc kh eed

Th e o nl y kn own parts of an orig in al Baby Pursuit now belo ng to Glenn Beets in King llJan A rizona

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64 5 N orth Wh eeling Ave nu e Mun cie Indiana 47303

Photos by Cary Alexander (Except As Noted)

KEMP AEROPLA N E MOTORS

Editor s N ote Brad Th om as Pres ident of th e Antique Cla ss ic Di vision received th e allowing leller from EAA m e mhe r Morton E Clark 3 10 Soldier Creek Roa d Cran ts Pass Oregon 9751 6 Knowing that Kemp motors w ere m anufactured in Mun cie Indiana we contacted Ed EscalshyIon o th at c it y to see w hat he might kno w about th em We were pleawcl to learn that Ed not onl y kne w who th e su ccess or compan y to Kemp was and had seen th e subshyject engine on cli splay but that he had planned to write a story Ed s s tory follows Morton s le ll er We hope you will t njo y reaciing abo ut the unique and re liable Ke mp powe rplants

Cene Chase

Dear Mr Thomas Some years ago while working for an aircraft sales

company in Southern California I had the opporshytunity of reconstructing an engine of some historical significance The origin and technical data of its manushyfacture or date was not known by any of us at the time but it appeared to be built for aircraft use and not a modified engine of some other function

When I was asked if the recently acquired boxes of rusty broken parts could be made to look like an engin e and mounted on a stand I had some misshy

glvlngs This included a propeller with one blade broken off at the hub I looked intently at the boss to see if it was all a joke but he only smiled and said do what you can then walked off It proved to be a very interesting project

At a time when most engines were liquid cooled this one had cylinders that had cooling fins totally machined from what may have been tubular steel stock The crankshaft appeared to be cut from a heavy plate to the shape of crank-throws and then the jourshynals machined round The crankcase was cast alumishynum An external camshaft made from a length of tubing with cast iron lobes which were slid on the tubing and pinned to the proper degrees was driven by external gears and no lubrication was provided

The valve arrangement was quite unique One massive exhaust valve operated by the camshaft through push rods and rocker arms had a small poppet type intake valve within itself The intake valve opened only as the piston on its downward stroke created a vacuum and sucked the intake mixture into the cylinder As the piston entered the compression stroke the valve closed with an assist from a small coil spring on the valve stem and it all worked

The connecting rods were a bronze alloy with poured babbit bearings reamed to size Not unlike the old 1 model Ford Pistons and rings were cast iron and very heavy

In the box of parts I found a carburetor and a sinshygle magneto They both seemed to be original with the exception of a mounting plate for the magneto I finally fabricated an assembly for it incorporating a vernier coupling from a Ranger mag drive (The only non-standard part)

Also found in the box were four steel bands which it was determined were some sort of control of exshy

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Morton E Clark with th e Kemp Model 1-4 engine which h e restored and ran Th e can mounted above th e engine served as th e temporary gas tank

haust gasses that were allowed to escape through ports drilled in the cylinders immediately below the lowest fin Scavenging of the cylinders was not only through the exhaust valves but also through these ports One can imagine the smoke oil and noise from this sysshytem

The propeller was carved from very soft wood with oak plates glued front and rear in the hub area The

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blad es w ere cove red with fabric secured with case in glue and painted silver

A few days aft er co mpl et ion of thi s proj ec t the boss had a wild idea th at it ju st might run At thi s point I feared he had lost so me marbles but to paci fy him I adapted a tachometer thro ttl e switch and a one ga llon can of gasoline A good deal of priming a deep sigh and a frisky snap of th e propelshyler was all that was needed to get this thing shuddershying to life Not thinking it might run I had not proshyvided it with any kind of retention so we all spent th e next moment or two trying to stop it from colliding with everything in the shop Well I guess the boss wasnt nuts after all All in all it was a rewarding as well as an interes ting tim e for me

As I understand this engine is now on static disshyplay at the Kemp Foundry amp Machine Works (address unknown) and has created a lot of curiosity and inshyterest in that area It is also li sted in Jan es All Th e World s Aircraft Us e the photos and story as you wish

Very truly yours Morton E Clark EAA 19947 AIC 693

In 1905 George Kemp founded the Kemp Machine Works in Muncie Indiana to perform general machine work for th e industry in the area He took great inshyterest in th e flying which th e Wrights were doing in nearby Dayton around 1910 and he became involved in th e form ation of a Muncie Aero Club Several flyshying machines were constructed by this group and hopped in st raight away runs Appar ently further enthused by thi s activity Mr Kemp decided to build an engine of his own des ign but unlike most of its contemporaries it was to be air-cooled

The Kemp Machine Works first engin e was built in April 1911 and so ld to D E Denni s of Franklin Indiana It was a four-cylinder in-lin e configuration producing 240 pounds of thru st at 1400 rpm swinging a propeller 6-6 long with a 4-6 pitch

Production of engines continued through the year including seve ral variations and improvem ents Six Model B engines followed th e first engine with 17 Model Cs and one Model D produ ced before th e year was out In 1912 produ ction continued with ten more Model Ds and four Model Es Al so a new sixshycy linder engine known as the F-6 was introduced and three were so ld

Most of th e early Kemps were used on Bleriot or Curtiss machin es as well as other homebuilt airshycraft

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The Kemp engine as il looks loday on displa y al lh e B K Machine Company in Muncie Indiana

Sa les records of th e co mpan y revea l so m e inshyteres ting names that would reoccur in later av iation history including engine 58 built in 1914 sold to W B Kinn er who later produced hi s own radial s common to many thirti es and forties vintage aircraft including Fl eets and Rya ns In 1916 H aro ld F Pitshyca irn of Byrn Athyn Penn sy lvania pur chased two 2-cy linder G-2s engin e 73 with ri ght h and rot ashytion and engin e 75 with lef t hand rotation Pitcairn biplanes would later be used to haul mail for th e start of Eas tern Airlines and still later Pitcairn would build autogyros

Th e mo tor Made in Muncie for Particular People Ever ywh e re saw se rvi ce allover th e world Cusshytom ers includ ed people from Buenos Aires Singashy

pore Yokahama and Rio de Jani ero as well as Alaska The two-cy linder opposed and V-8 configuration s

were added to th e produ ct lin e in 1913 and 1914 respectively In 1917 aircraft engine prod uction was discontinued due partially to shortages o f material s during th e war It is probabl e that th e forthcoming surplus of in exp ensive OX-5 s may also have been a factor

The last aeroplane motor was an 1-4 Seri al Numshyber 80 so ld to Harvey Tarlin g of Breckenridge Minshynesota as a demonstrator for $378 whi ch was 30 off retail

Claimed as th e first air-cooled aeronautical motor built in th e Unit ed States (Europea ns had u sed air coo ling as earl y as 1909 and early Curtiss engines also were air-coo led ) the GRAY EAGLES were well thought out and ahead of their tim e in many fea tures For exa mple th e cy linders w er e co mple te ly machined out of a so lid billet of steel including th ei r radiatin g fins or flanges which wer e stat ed to be scientifishyca ll y co nstru cted and proportioned with as mu ch care as th e bore of the cy linder Although far mor e difshyficult than making cast fins Kemp s machin ed fin s were thou ght to eliminate th e hard scale of cas t fin s and thus in crease hea t tr ansfe r Well over thirt een years after Kemp started production Prall and Whitshyney subs cr ibed to th e same philosophy for th ei r radials

Kemp piston rings were ground and th en shot peened to improve th e unifor mity of th eir spring tension By virtue of thi s th e vertical clea rance to th e piston groove could be made as low as 005 thus preventing ca rbo n accumulation and unde rshyfiring A two-rin g piston was used

Additional features included a hot air connection furnished for winter tim e which ducted ai r from th e cylinders to the carburetor providing an ea rly form of carburetor heat It would be th e late twenti es beshyfore this practi ce became co mmonp lace in engi n e design

Lubri ca ti o n was fairly co nv enti o nal for th at day usin g pressure-fed main bea rings and co nn ect in g rods which scooped th eir o il out of th e crankcase O ILZUM was th e reco mm end ed lubri ca ting oi l

The eng in e was well finished with all ex tern al steel parts ni ckel plated and cas tings polished Th e two- four- and six-cylinder engin es w er e large ly variations of each other All fea tured a main bearing between each crankshaft throw

A rath er uniqu e valving arrangement was com mo n to th ese engin es which is partially ev ident in th e acshyco mpanying photographs A co nce ntri c intake and exhaust valve were fitt ed to th e centerlin e of a reshy

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movable head The intake valve was spring loaded closed being sucked open by the vacuum created by the downward piston on the intake stroke In a most unusual manner the exhaust valve was fitted conshycentrically around the intake taking an inverted cup shape in the process It was opened by a conshyventional overhead rocker arm and side mou nted cam Intake gasses were admitted to the underside of the exhaust valves cup and then entered the cylinder through the concentrically positioned inshytake valve The exhaust gasses escaped around the outer periphery of the exhaust valve and exited through the four ports evident in the photographs

A further unique feature of the engine is a series of 8 ports at the lower end of the sweep of the pisshyton stroke effectively venting the cylinder at the end of each intake and exhaust stroke These ports are visible in the photographs Their main function was to discharge exhaust gasses thus improving the scavshyenging of the engine For starting these ports are cove~ed with a hose clamp affair and then after the engine is running the hose clamp is lowered exposshying the ports A noticeable power increase is apparent One might surmise that the concentrically fitted valves are probably very effective at cooling the hot exhaust valve but somewhat marginal at providing a good mixture during the intake stroke due to th e presencE of excess burnt gas around the intake valve region

Engine design called for a crankshaft speed of 1150 to 1200 rpm to maintain a high prop efficiency Paragon and Flotrop propellers were the most comshymonly used props Idling speed was determined by the minimum speed at which the engine did not gallop

Much of the emphasis of the Kemp Machine Works advertising stressed the advantages of the air-cooled engine Reduced weight and cooling drag were foreshymost advantages Kemp claimed that an air-cooled motor could provide 20-25 more power from its fuel than a water cooled engine or about t~ice the aircraft range for an equal horsepower

In case any EAAers run into a newfound Kemp the starting procedure is rather simple First a reshycharge of the permanent magnets in the magn eto is recommended Then actual starting is accomplished by priming through the exhaust valve directly into the cylinder The spark advance is th en retired (retarded) Then the needle valve on the top of the Stromberg carburetor is pressed until the bowl fills Finally the engine is propped to start it Indications are that most Kemps always start on the first blade

Although very different from the two- four- and six-cylinder engines the V-8 was a well advanced en-

Th e nameplate is on the right ide of the uclllkcae directl y below th e ex ternal camshaft

It should be mentioned in passing that th e Paragon The arguments of water coo ling versus air cooling propeller had a very wide chord and scimitar shape were never rea lly settled even as late as World War to th eir blades Consequently they were shipped to II with manufa cturers lik e Allison Rolls and Packard the customers in long and wide wooden boxes These lined up against Pratt and Whitney Wright Warner shipping crates used in co mbination with old newsshy Kinner Ranger et al Kemp m ay have begun the disshypapers serv~d well as a irport bunks for many of cussion in this country but th e deba te was never the young aspiring people of this era including E M settled Ma tty Laird and the other kids at Cicero Field in Chicago

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

Model HP No K-2 14 M-2 10

As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

Ed Es call o n

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

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Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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CLARENCE PRESTAND

THE PREST pABY PURSUIT

by Ray Cock ing (EAA 16154 A IC 233 0) 3468 Barnaby Court Riverside CA 92504

Editors Note After th e following story was set in print we received the following additional informashytion from au thor Ray Cocki ng abou t Clarence Prest Quoting from Whos Who in Aviation published in 1942 Clarence Oliver Prest Born in Clinton Iowa October 24 1896 Learned to fly at Domingez Field California in 1911 Logged hours 5000 Established Word s speed record for Class C planes San Bershynadino California in 1930 Exhibition pilot 1911 to 191 5 Chi ef Instructor Riv erside Aircraft Company 196 to 1917 Pilot Manufacturer and aviation salesshyman 1918 to 1932 Developed Electrolytic template process for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation used on the Boeing Flying Fortress for Boeing Douglas and Vega Companies M ember of the Early Birds and Proshyfessional Pilots Association

Fre(1 Schuman and Clarence Prest and a Cu rti ss Oriole w ith high lift wings

Clarence Prest lived in San Bernadino California just a few doors from where Leland S Lee Miles th e famous race pilo t lived Clarence and Lee were long tim e friends

Shortly after World War One Prest opened an aircraft plant in Arlington California nea r Riverside He retailed large quantities of surplus aircraft parts which he purchased from the government as did so many at that time

1 remember as a thirteen year old boy going to Prests and seeing all th e rows of Gnome Le Rhone OX5 Hi sso and other engines plu s rows of fuselages for Jennys and Orioles

Clarence had a brilliant mind and was always exshyperimenting with high lift wings for his Oriole and Jenny His OX5 Oriole with a high lift wing attained an altitude of 14000 feet

Prest also built a high lift parasol wing for an Oriole that moved out at 140 mph with a 165 hp Gnome rotary engine

The story I heard concerning the origin of the Baby Pursuit was Prests idea to build and sell them to the Chinese Government I know of two that were built one with an Anzani 60 hp and one with the 45 hp Sze kely SR-3 engi ne Otto Graser a close friend of Pres t said six were built so maybe a few did get

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to China The planes had a lot of performance and were very aerobatic

Th e last Baby Pursuit belonged to Ernie Fillinger of Lan cas ter California before its untimely demise It had a 65 hp engine mounted in it which they say gave it excep tional performance

Clarence flew his Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit to a World Speed Record of 1008 mph in the cateshygory for single place aircraft undEr 440 pounds empty

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Clarence Pres t in his record-setting Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit

Specifications were

Span 24 feet Chord 49 inches Wing Area 92 square feet Length 17 feet 11 inches Empty Weight 475 pounds Useful Load 225 pounds Gross Weight 700 pou nds High Speed 90 mph Stall 40 mph Climb - First Minute 700 fpm

The photos accompanying this article are 01 Pr es t s Anzani-powered Baby Pursuit and w ere taken at Eddie Martin s Airport Santa Ana California (except where indicated)

From AERO DI GEST April 1930 shy The design of the Prest Baby Pursuit a semi-cantilever

monoplane produced in Arlington California by Pres t Airp lane and MOlOrs incorporates an unu sual arrangeshymen t at the fuselage To permit fa stening th e wing di rectl) to the top comer of the fu selage just above th e level of the pi lots eyes resu l ting in the m inimum obslruct ion to vision th e fuselage is lurn ed up on edg e The pilol has normal vi sion forward downward and above In Ihe construct ion of Ihe fuselage major s tresse~ are disshytribu led 10 th e entire stru cture directly from th e attach fi tt ings Th e p lane is powered with a Szekely SR-3 45 hp engin e

Th e wing is semi-can tilever wilh solid ane laminate(1 spruce beams of full lenglh pieces wilh no splices in th e one piece wing Th e wing wa s covered wi lh Fligh tex

Internal drag struls are of chrome-molybdenum steel tubing weldec into a truss and bolted 10 Ih e beams Th e

elrag bracing is double and is of round Ma cwh yle tie rods with sa fe lo ck fittings Chrome-molybdenum is us ed Ihroughoul in Ih e constru clion including sheet fittings anel tubing Th e fu el lanks are of aluminum pickleel and v ibralion tes ted according 10 Navy sp ecifica lions Th e landing gear is itteel with C russ Air Siruts A Consolishydateel ins trum ent panel is provided

The ailerons are controlled b y means of cables withshyin the wing and a push-pull tube to th e wing from the iorque tube Th e wing may be removed wi thout loosenshying th e ca ble or pulleys one pin being pulled to disshyconnect th e ailerons Th e wing is des igned to be reshymoved by two men in approximately ten minutes

The ai lerons extend 10 fu ll leng th of th e trailing edge and have a chord of 4 inch es their tala I area being 65 square (eel

Th e entire ship is constructed on a jig anel a ll of the par) are interchangeable with equivalent parIgt Th e conshy

struction 01 th e fu selage (a eili tates manufac ture in jigs and it is ((signed 10 come (rom the jig in alignmenl so that the landing gear wings and olher p arts lla) be fa stened without Ihting or forcing

During Worl d W ar Two Pres t develop ed and p ashytented a cheap fas t and accurate m eth od o f cop yin g templates and pattern s by w hat h e ca ll ed th e elec troshylyti c reprodu cti o n sys tem It was es timated th at Pres t s sys tem saved Loc kh eed Doug las and Vega A ir cra ft Co mp anies over 150000 m anh o urs during th eir proshyduc ti o n of th e fam ous B-17 bo mber during th e ea rl y part o f W o rld W ar Two and advancin g th e bo mber pro du ction schedul e by three months

Fro m th at peri od on Pres t gave up ac tive fl ying and devoted all o f hi s tim e to engin eerin g ac tiv i ti es fo r Loc kh eed

Th e o nl y kn own parts of an orig in al Baby Pursuit now belo ng to Glenn Beets in King llJan A rizona

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RJ~lPreg(f)~l~ce b y Ed Escallon (EAA 58814 A C 504 )

64 5 N orth Wh eeling Ave nu e Mun cie Indiana 47303

Photos by Cary Alexander (Except As Noted)

KEMP AEROPLA N E MOTORS

Editor s N ote Brad Th om as Pres ident of th e Antique Cla ss ic Di vision received th e allowing leller from EAA m e mhe r Morton E Clark 3 10 Soldier Creek Roa d Cran ts Pass Oregon 9751 6 Knowing that Kemp motors w ere m anufactured in Mun cie Indiana we contacted Ed EscalshyIon o th at c it y to see w hat he might kno w about th em We were pleawcl to learn that Ed not onl y kne w who th e su ccess or compan y to Kemp was and had seen th e subshyject engine on cli splay but that he had planned to write a story Ed s s tory follows Morton s le ll er We hope you will t njo y reaciing abo ut the unique and re liable Ke mp powe rplants

Cene Chase

Dear Mr Thomas Some years ago while working for an aircraft sales

company in Southern California I had the opporshytunity of reconstructing an engine of some historical significance The origin and technical data of its manushyfacture or date was not known by any of us at the time but it appeared to be built for aircraft use and not a modified engine of some other function

When I was asked if the recently acquired boxes of rusty broken parts could be made to look like an engin e and mounted on a stand I had some misshy

glvlngs This included a propeller with one blade broken off at the hub I looked intently at the boss to see if it was all a joke but he only smiled and said do what you can then walked off It proved to be a very interesting project

At a time when most engines were liquid cooled this one had cylinders that had cooling fins totally machined from what may have been tubular steel stock The crankshaft appeared to be cut from a heavy plate to the shape of crank-throws and then the jourshynals machined round The crankcase was cast alumishynum An external camshaft made from a length of tubing with cast iron lobes which were slid on the tubing and pinned to the proper degrees was driven by external gears and no lubrication was provided

The valve arrangement was quite unique One massive exhaust valve operated by the camshaft through push rods and rocker arms had a small poppet type intake valve within itself The intake valve opened only as the piston on its downward stroke created a vacuum and sucked the intake mixture into the cylinder As the piston entered the compression stroke the valve closed with an assist from a small coil spring on the valve stem and it all worked

The connecting rods were a bronze alloy with poured babbit bearings reamed to size Not unlike the old 1 model Ford Pistons and rings were cast iron and very heavy

In the box of parts I found a carburetor and a sinshygle magneto They both seemed to be original with the exception of a mounting plate for the magneto I finally fabricated an assembly for it incorporating a vernier coupling from a Ranger mag drive (The only non-standard part)

Also found in the box were four steel bands which it was determined were some sort of control of exshy

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(Photo Courtesy Morton E Clark)

Morton E Clark with th e Kemp Model 1-4 engine which h e restored and ran Th e can mounted above th e engine served as th e temporary gas tank

haust gasses that were allowed to escape through ports drilled in the cylinders immediately below the lowest fin Scavenging of the cylinders was not only through the exhaust valves but also through these ports One can imagine the smoke oil and noise from this sysshytem

The propeller was carved from very soft wood with oak plates glued front and rear in the hub area The

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blad es w ere cove red with fabric secured with case in glue and painted silver

A few days aft er co mpl et ion of thi s proj ec t the boss had a wild idea th at it ju st might run At thi s point I feared he had lost so me marbles but to paci fy him I adapted a tachometer thro ttl e switch and a one ga llon can of gasoline A good deal of priming a deep sigh and a frisky snap of th e propelshyler was all that was needed to get this thing shuddershying to life Not thinking it might run I had not proshyvided it with any kind of retention so we all spent th e next moment or two trying to stop it from colliding with everything in the shop Well I guess the boss wasnt nuts after all All in all it was a rewarding as well as an interes ting tim e for me

As I understand this engine is now on static disshyplay at the Kemp Foundry amp Machine Works (address unknown) and has created a lot of curiosity and inshyterest in that area It is also li sted in Jan es All Th e World s Aircraft Us e the photos and story as you wish

Very truly yours Morton E Clark EAA 19947 AIC 693

In 1905 George Kemp founded the Kemp Machine Works in Muncie Indiana to perform general machine work for th e industry in the area He took great inshyterest in th e flying which th e Wrights were doing in nearby Dayton around 1910 and he became involved in th e form ation of a Muncie Aero Club Several flyshying machines were constructed by this group and hopped in st raight away runs Appar ently further enthused by thi s activity Mr Kemp decided to build an engine of his own des ign but unlike most of its contemporaries it was to be air-cooled

The Kemp Machine Works first engin e was built in April 1911 and so ld to D E Denni s of Franklin Indiana It was a four-cylinder in-lin e configuration producing 240 pounds of thru st at 1400 rpm swinging a propeller 6-6 long with a 4-6 pitch

Production of engines continued through the year including seve ral variations and improvem ents Six Model B engines followed th e first engine with 17 Model Cs and one Model D produ ced before th e year was out In 1912 produ ction continued with ten more Model Ds and four Model Es Al so a new sixshycy linder engine known as the F-6 was introduced and three were so ld

Most of th e early Kemps were used on Bleriot or Curtiss machin es as well as other homebuilt airshycraft

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The Kemp engine as il looks loday on displa y al lh e B K Machine Company in Muncie Indiana

Sa les records of th e co mpan y revea l so m e inshyteres ting names that would reoccur in later av iation history including engine 58 built in 1914 sold to W B Kinn er who later produced hi s own radial s common to many thirti es and forties vintage aircraft including Fl eets and Rya ns In 1916 H aro ld F Pitshyca irn of Byrn Athyn Penn sy lvania pur chased two 2-cy linder G-2s engin e 73 with ri ght h and rot ashytion and engin e 75 with lef t hand rotation Pitcairn biplanes would later be used to haul mail for th e start of Eas tern Airlines and still later Pitcairn would build autogyros

Th e mo tor Made in Muncie for Particular People Ever ywh e re saw se rvi ce allover th e world Cusshytom ers includ ed people from Buenos Aires Singashy

pore Yokahama and Rio de Jani ero as well as Alaska The two-cy linder opposed and V-8 configuration s

were added to th e produ ct lin e in 1913 and 1914 respectively In 1917 aircraft engine prod uction was discontinued due partially to shortages o f material s during th e war It is probabl e that th e forthcoming surplus of in exp ensive OX-5 s may also have been a factor

The last aeroplane motor was an 1-4 Seri al Numshyber 80 so ld to Harvey Tarlin g of Breckenridge Minshynesota as a demonstrator for $378 whi ch was 30 off retail

Claimed as th e first air-cooled aeronautical motor built in th e Unit ed States (Europea ns had u sed air coo ling as earl y as 1909 and early Curtiss engines also were air-coo led ) the GRAY EAGLES were well thought out and ahead of their tim e in many fea tures For exa mple th e cy linders w er e co mple te ly machined out of a so lid billet of steel including th ei r radiatin g fins or flanges which wer e stat ed to be scientifishyca ll y co nstru cted and proportioned with as mu ch care as th e bore of the cy linder Although far mor e difshyficult than making cast fins Kemp s machin ed fin s were thou ght to eliminate th e hard scale of cas t fin s and thus in crease hea t tr ansfe r Well over thirt een years after Kemp started production Prall and Whitshyney subs cr ibed to th e same philosophy for th ei r radials

Kemp piston rings were ground and th en shot peened to improve th e unifor mity of th eir spring tension By virtue of thi s th e vertical clea rance to th e piston groove could be made as low as 005 thus preventing ca rbo n accumulation and unde rshyfiring A two-rin g piston was used

Additional features included a hot air connection furnished for winter tim e which ducted ai r from th e cylinders to the carburetor providing an ea rly form of carburetor heat It would be th e late twenti es beshyfore this practi ce became co mmonp lace in engi n e design

Lubri ca ti o n was fairly co nv enti o nal for th at day usin g pressure-fed main bea rings and co nn ect in g rods which scooped th eir o il out of th e crankcase O ILZUM was th e reco mm end ed lubri ca ting oi l

The eng in e was well finished with all ex tern al steel parts ni ckel plated and cas tings polished Th e two- four- and six-cylinder engin es w er e large ly variations of each other All fea tured a main bearing between each crankshaft throw

A rath er uniqu e valving arrangement was com mo n to th ese engin es which is partially ev ident in th e acshyco mpanying photographs A co nce ntri c intake and exhaust valve were fitt ed to th e centerlin e of a reshy

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movable head The intake valve was spring loaded closed being sucked open by the vacuum created by the downward piston on the intake stroke In a most unusual manner the exhaust valve was fitted conshycentrically around the intake taking an inverted cup shape in the process It was opened by a conshyventional overhead rocker arm and side mou nted cam Intake gasses were admitted to the underside of the exhaust valves cup and then entered the cylinder through the concentrically positioned inshytake valve The exhaust gasses escaped around the outer periphery of the exhaust valve and exited through the four ports evident in the photographs

A further unique feature of the engine is a series of 8 ports at the lower end of the sweep of the pisshyton stroke effectively venting the cylinder at the end of each intake and exhaust stroke These ports are visible in the photographs Their main function was to discharge exhaust gasses thus improving the scavshyenging of the engine For starting these ports are cove~ed with a hose clamp affair and then after the engine is running the hose clamp is lowered exposshying the ports A noticeable power increase is apparent One might surmise that the concentrically fitted valves are probably very effective at cooling the hot exhaust valve but somewhat marginal at providing a good mixture during the intake stroke due to th e presencE of excess burnt gas around the intake valve region

Engine design called for a crankshaft speed of 1150 to 1200 rpm to maintain a high prop efficiency Paragon and Flotrop propellers were the most comshymonly used props Idling speed was determined by the minimum speed at which the engine did not gallop

Much of the emphasis of the Kemp Machine Works advertising stressed the advantages of the air-cooled engine Reduced weight and cooling drag were foreshymost advantages Kemp claimed that an air-cooled motor could provide 20-25 more power from its fuel than a water cooled engine or about t~ice the aircraft range for an equal horsepower

In case any EAAers run into a newfound Kemp the starting procedure is rather simple First a reshycharge of the permanent magnets in the magn eto is recommended Then actual starting is accomplished by priming through the exhaust valve directly into the cylinder The spark advance is th en retired (retarded) Then the needle valve on the top of the Stromberg carburetor is pressed until the bowl fills Finally the engine is propped to start it Indications are that most Kemps always start on the first blade

Although very different from the two- four- and six-cylinder engines the V-8 was a well advanced en-

Th e nameplate is on the right ide of the uclllkcae directl y below th e ex ternal camshaft

It should be mentioned in passing that th e Paragon The arguments of water coo ling versus air cooling propeller had a very wide chord and scimitar shape were never rea lly settled even as late as World War to th eir blades Consequently they were shipped to II with manufa cturers lik e Allison Rolls and Packard the customers in long and wide wooden boxes These lined up against Pratt and Whitney Wright Warner shipping crates used in co mbination with old newsshy Kinner Ranger et al Kemp m ay have begun the disshypapers serv~d well as a irport bunks for many of cussion in this country but th e deba te was never the young aspiring people of this era including E M settled Ma tty Laird and the other kids at Cicero Field in Chicago

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

Model HP No K-2 14 M-2 10

As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

Ed Es call o n

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l~l~urreet in~

b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

Tucson AZ 857 6

Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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ct- ~ ~~ -c - shyan old fuselage in a field near Oracle Arizona The

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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to China The planes had a lot of performance and were very aerobatic

Th e last Baby Pursuit belonged to Ernie Fillinger of Lan cas ter California before its untimely demise It had a 65 hp engine mounted in it which they say gave it excep tional performance

Clarence flew his Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit to a World Speed Record of 1008 mph in the cateshygory for single place aircraft undEr 440 pounds empty

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Clarence Pres t in his record-setting Szekely-powered Baby Pursuit

Specifications were

Span 24 feet Chord 49 inches Wing Area 92 square feet Length 17 feet 11 inches Empty Weight 475 pounds Useful Load 225 pounds Gross Weight 700 pou nds High Speed 90 mph Stall 40 mph Climb - First Minute 700 fpm

The photos accompanying this article are 01 Pr es t s Anzani-powered Baby Pursuit and w ere taken at Eddie Martin s Airport Santa Ana California (except where indicated)

From AERO DI GEST April 1930 shy The design of the Prest Baby Pursuit a semi-cantilever

monoplane produced in Arlington California by Pres t Airp lane and MOlOrs incorporates an unu sual arrangeshymen t at the fuselage To permit fa stening th e wing di rectl) to the top comer of the fu selage just above th e level of the pi lots eyes resu l ting in the m inimum obslruct ion to vision th e fuselage is lurn ed up on edg e The pilol has normal vi sion forward downward and above In Ihe construct ion of Ihe fuselage major s tresse~ are disshytribu led 10 th e entire stru cture directly from th e attach fi tt ings Th e p lane is powered with a Szekely SR-3 45 hp engin e

Th e wing is semi-can tilever wilh solid ane laminate(1 spruce beams of full lenglh pieces wilh no splices in th e one piece wing Th e wing wa s covered wi lh Fligh tex

Internal drag struls are of chrome-molybdenum steel tubing weldec into a truss and bolted 10 Ih e beams Th e

elrag bracing is double and is of round Ma cwh yle tie rods with sa fe lo ck fittings Chrome-molybdenum is us ed Ihroughoul in Ih e constru clion including sheet fittings anel tubing Th e fu el lanks are of aluminum pickleel and v ibralion tes ted according 10 Navy sp ecifica lions Th e landing gear is itteel with C russ Air Siruts A Consolishydateel ins trum ent panel is provided

The ailerons are controlled b y means of cables withshyin the wing and a push-pull tube to th e wing from the iorque tube Th e wing may be removed wi thout loosenshying th e ca ble or pulleys one pin being pulled to disshyconnect th e ailerons Th e wing is des igned to be reshymoved by two men in approximately ten minutes

The ai lerons extend 10 fu ll leng th of th e trailing edge and have a chord of 4 inch es their tala I area being 65 square (eel

Th e entire ship is constructed on a jig anel a ll of the par) are interchangeable with equivalent parIgt Th e conshy

struction 01 th e fu selage (a eili tates manufac ture in jigs and it is ((signed 10 come (rom the jig in alignmenl so that the landing gear wings and olher p arts lla) be fa stened without Ihting or forcing

During Worl d W ar Two Pres t develop ed and p ashytented a cheap fas t and accurate m eth od o f cop yin g templates and pattern s by w hat h e ca ll ed th e elec troshylyti c reprodu cti o n sys tem It was es timated th at Pres t s sys tem saved Loc kh eed Doug las and Vega A ir cra ft Co mp anies over 150000 m anh o urs during th eir proshyduc ti o n of th e fam ous B-17 bo mber during th e ea rl y part o f W o rld W ar Two and advancin g th e bo mber pro du ction schedul e by three months

Fro m th at peri od on Pres t gave up ac tive fl ying and devoted all o f hi s tim e to engin eerin g ac tiv i ti es fo r Loc kh eed

Th e o nl y kn own parts of an orig in al Baby Pursuit now belo ng to Glenn Beets in King llJan A rizona

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64 5 N orth Wh eeling Ave nu e Mun cie Indiana 47303

Photos by Cary Alexander (Except As Noted)

KEMP AEROPLA N E MOTORS

Editor s N ote Brad Th om as Pres ident of th e Antique Cla ss ic Di vision received th e allowing leller from EAA m e mhe r Morton E Clark 3 10 Soldier Creek Roa d Cran ts Pass Oregon 9751 6 Knowing that Kemp motors w ere m anufactured in Mun cie Indiana we contacted Ed EscalshyIon o th at c it y to see w hat he might kno w about th em We were pleawcl to learn that Ed not onl y kne w who th e su ccess or compan y to Kemp was and had seen th e subshyject engine on cli splay but that he had planned to write a story Ed s s tory follows Morton s le ll er We hope you will t njo y reaciing abo ut the unique and re liable Ke mp powe rplants

Cene Chase

Dear Mr Thomas Some years ago while working for an aircraft sales

company in Southern California I had the opporshytunity of reconstructing an engine of some historical significance The origin and technical data of its manushyfacture or date was not known by any of us at the time but it appeared to be built for aircraft use and not a modified engine of some other function

When I was asked if the recently acquired boxes of rusty broken parts could be made to look like an engin e and mounted on a stand I had some misshy

glvlngs This included a propeller with one blade broken off at the hub I looked intently at the boss to see if it was all a joke but he only smiled and said do what you can then walked off It proved to be a very interesting project

At a time when most engines were liquid cooled this one had cylinders that had cooling fins totally machined from what may have been tubular steel stock The crankshaft appeared to be cut from a heavy plate to the shape of crank-throws and then the jourshynals machined round The crankcase was cast alumishynum An external camshaft made from a length of tubing with cast iron lobes which were slid on the tubing and pinned to the proper degrees was driven by external gears and no lubrication was provided

The valve arrangement was quite unique One massive exhaust valve operated by the camshaft through push rods and rocker arms had a small poppet type intake valve within itself The intake valve opened only as the piston on its downward stroke created a vacuum and sucked the intake mixture into the cylinder As the piston entered the compression stroke the valve closed with an assist from a small coil spring on the valve stem and it all worked

The connecting rods were a bronze alloy with poured babbit bearings reamed to size Not unlike the old 1 model Ford Pistons and rings were cast iron and very heavy

In the box of parts I found a carburetor and a sinshygle magneto They both seemed to be original with the exception of a mounting plate for the magneto I finally fabricated an assembly for it incorporating a vernier coupling from a Ranger mag drive (The only non-standard part)

Also found in the box were four steel bands which it was determined were some sort of control of exshy

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(Photo Courtesy Morton E Clark)

Morton E Clark with th e Kemp Model 1-4 engine which h e restored and ran Th e can mounted above th e engine served as th e temporary gas tank

haust gasses that were allowed to escape through ports drilled in the cylinders immediately below the lowest fin Scavenging of the cylinders was not only through the exhaust valves but also through these ports One can imagine the smoke oil and noise from this sysshytem

The propeller was carved from very soft wood with oak plates glued front and rear in the hub area The

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blad es w ere cove red with fabric secured with case in glue and painted silver

A few days aft er co mpl et ion of thi s proj ec t the boss had a wild idea th at it ju st might run At thi s point I feared he had lost so me marbles but to paci fy him I adapted a tachometer thro ttl e switch and a one ga llon can of gasoline A good deal of priming a deep sigh and a frisky snap of th e propelshyler was all that was needed to get this thing shuddershying to life Not thinking it might run I had not proshyvided it with any kind of retention so we all spent th e next moment or two trying to stop it from colliding with everything in the shop Well I guess the boss wasnt nuts after all All in all it was a rewarding as well as an interes ting tim e for me

As I understand this engine is now on static disshyplay at the Kemp Foundry amp Machine Works (address unknown) and has created a lot of curiosity and inshyterest in that area It is also li sted in Jan es All Th e World s Aircraft Us e the photos and story as you wish

Very truly yours Morton E Clark EAA 19947 AIC 693

In 1905 George Kemp founded the Kemp Machine Works in Muncie Indiana to perform general machine work for th e industry in the area He took great inshyterest in th e flying which th e Wrights were doing in nearby Dayton around 1910 and he became involved in th e form ation of a Muncie Aero Club Several flyshying machines were constructed by this group and hopped in st raight away runs Appar ently further enthused by thi s activity Mr Kemp decided to build an engine of his own des ign but unlike most of its contemporaries it was to be air-cooled

The Kemp Machine Works first engin e was built in April 1911 and so ld to D E Denni s of Franklin Indiana It was a four-cylinder in-lin e configuration producing 240 pounds of thru st at 1400 rpm swinging a propeller 6-6 long with a 4-6 pitch

Production of engines continued through the year including seve ral variations and improvem ents Six Model B engines followed th e first engine with 17 Model Cs and one Model D produ ced before th e year was out In 1912 produ ction continued with ten more Model Ds and four Model Es Al so a new sixshycy linder engine known as the F-6 was introduced and three were so ld

Most of th e early Kemps were used on Bleriot or Curtiss machin es as well as other homebuilt airshycraft

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Sa les records of th e co mpan y revea l so m e inshyteres ting names that would reoccur in later av iation history including engine 58 built in 1914 sold to W B Kinn er who later produced hi s own radial s common to many thirti es and forties vintage aircraft including Fl eets and Rya ns In 1916 H aro ld F Pitshyca irn of Byrn Athyn Penn sy lvania pur chased two 2-cy linder G-2s engin e 73 with ri ght h and rot ashytion and engin e 75 with lef t hand rotation Pitcairn biplanes would later be used to haul mail for th e start of Eas tern Airlines and still later Pitcairn would build autogyros

Th e mo tor Made in Muncie for Particular People Ever ywh e re saw se rvi ce allover th e world Cusshytom ers includ ed people from Buenos Aires Singashy

pore Yokahama and Rio de Jani ero as well as Alaska The two-cy linder opposed and V-8 configuration s

were added to th e produ ct lin e in 1913 and 1914 respectively In 1917 aircraft engine prod uction was discontinued due partially to shortages o f material s during th e war It is probabl e that th e forthcoming surplus of in exp ensive OX-5 s may also have been a factor

The last aeroplane motor was an 1-4 Seri al Numshyber 80 so ld to Harvey Tarlin g of Breckenridge Minshynesota as a demonstrator for $378 whi ch was 30 off retail

Claimed as th e first air-cooled aeronautical motor built in th e Unit ed States (Europea ns had u sed air coo ling as earl y as 1909 and early Curtiss engines also were air-coo led ) the GRAY EAGLES were well thought out and ahead of their tim e in many fea tures For exa mple th e cy linders w er e co mple te ly machined out of a so lid billet of steel including th ei r radiatin g fins or flanges which wer e stat ed to be scientifishyca ll y co nstru cted and proportioned with as mu ch care as th e bore of the cy linder Although far mor e difshyficult than making cast fins Kemp s machin ed fin s were thou ght to eliminate th e hard scale of cas t fin s and thus in crease hea t tr ansfe r Well over thirt een years after Kemp started production Prall and Whitshyney subs cr ibed to th e same philosophy for th ei r radials

Kemp piston rings were ground and th en shot peened to improve th e unifor mity of th eir spring tension By virtue of thi s th e vertical clea rance to th e piston groove could be made as low as 005 thus preventing ca rbo n accumulation and unde rshyfiring A two-rin g piston was used

Additional features included a hot air connection furnished for winter tim e which ducted ai r from th e cylinders to the carburetor providing an ea rly form of carburetor heat It would be th e late twenti es beshyfore this practi ce became co mmonp lace in engi n e design

Lubri ca ti o n was fairly co nv enti o nal for th at day usin g pressure-fed main bea rings and co nn ect in g rods which scooped th eir o il out of th e crankcase O ILZUM was th e reco mm end ed lubri ca ting oi l

The eng in e was well finished with all ex tern al steel parts ni ckel plated and cas tings polished Th e two- four- and six-cylinder engin es w er e large ly variations of each other All fea tured a main bearing between each crankshaft throw

A rath er uniqu e valving arrangement was com mo n to th ese engin es which is partially ev ident in th e acshyco mpanying photographs A co nce ntri c intake and exhaust valve were fitt ed to th e centerlin e of a reshy

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movable head The intake valve was spring loaded closed being sucked open by the vacuum created by the downward piston on the intake stroke In a most unusual manner the exhaust valve was fitted conshycentrically around the intake taking an inverted cup shape in the process It was opened by a conshyventional overhead rocker arm and side mou nted cam Intake gasses were admitted to the underside of the exhaust valves cup and then entered the cylinder through the concentrically positioned inshytake valve The exhaust gasses escaped around the outer periphery of the exhaust valve and exited through the four ports evident in the photographs

A further unique feature of the engine is a series of 8 ports at the lower end of the sweep of the pisshyton stroke effectively venting the cylinder at the end of each intake and exhaust stroke These ports are visible in the photographs Their main function was to discharge exhaust gasses thus improving the scavshyenging of the engine For starting these ports are cove~ed with a hose clamp affair and then after the engine is running the hose clamp is lowered exposshying the ports A noticeable power increase is apparent One might surmise that the concentrically fitted valves are probably very effective at cooling the hot exhaust valve but somewhat marginal at providing a good mixture during the intake stroke due to th e presencE of excess burnt gas around the intake valve region

Engine design called for a crankshaft speed of 1150 to 1200 rpm to maintain a high prop efficiency Paragon and Flotrop propellers were the most comshymonly used props Idling speed was determined by the minimum speed at which the engine did not gallop

Much of the emphasis of the Kemp Machine Works advertising stressed the advantages of the air-cooled engine Reduced weight and cooling drag were foreshymost advantages Kemp claimed that an air-cooled motor could provide 20-25 more power from its fuel than a water cooled engine or about t~ice the aircraft range for an equal horsepower

In case any EAAers run into a newfound Kemp the starting procedure is rather simple First a reshycharge of the permanent magnets in the magn eto is recommended Then actual starting is accomplished by priming through the exhaust valve directly into the cylinder The spark advance is th en retired (retarded) Then the needle valve on the top of the Stromberg carburetor is pressed until the bowl fills Finally the engine is propped to start it Indications are that most Kemps always start on the first blade

Although very different from the two- four- and six-cylinder engines the V-8 was a well advanced en-

Th e nameplate is on the right ide of the uclllkcae directl y below th e ex ternal camshaft

It should be mentioned in passing that th e Paragon The arguments of water coo ling versus air cooling propeller had a very wide chord and scimitar shape were never rea lly settled even as late as World War to th eir blades Consequently they were shipped to II with manufa cturers lik e Allison Rolls and Packard the customers in long and wide wooden boxes These lined up against Pratt and Whitney Wright Warner shipping crates used in co mbination with old newsshy Kinner Ranger et al Kemp m ay have begun the disshypapers serv~d well as a irport bunks for many of cussion in this country but th e deba te was never the young aspiring people of this era including E M settled Ma tty Laird and the other kids at Cicero Field in Chicago

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

Model HP No K-2 14 M-2 10

As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

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Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

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lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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The photos accompanying this article are 01 Pr es t s Anzani-powered Baby Pursuit and w ere taken at Eddie Martin s Airport Santa Ana California (except where indicated)

From AERO DI GEST April 1930 shy The design of the Prest Baby Pursuit a semi-cantilever

monoplane produced in Arlington California by Pres t Airp lane and MOlOrs incorporates an unu sual arrangeshymen t at the fuselage To permit fa stening th e wing di rectl) to the top comer of the fu selage just above th e level of the pi lots eyes resu l ting in the m inimum obslruct ion to vision th e fuselage is lurn ed up on edg e The pilol has normal vi sion forward downward and above In Ihe construct ion of Ihe fuselage major s tresse~ are disshytribu led 10 th e entire stru cture directly from th e attach fi tt ings Th e p lane is powered with a Szekely SR-3 45 hp engin e

Th e wing is semi-can tilever wilh solid ane laminate(1 spruce beams of full lenglh pieces wilh no splices in th e one piece wing Th e wing wa s covered wi lh Fligh tex

Internal drag struls are of chrome-molybdenum steel tubing weldec into a truss and bolted 10 Ih e beams Th e

elrag bracing is double and is of round Ma cwh yle tie rods with sa fe lo ck fittings Chrome-molybdenum is us ed Ihroughoul in Ih e constru clion including sheet fittings anel tubing Th e fu el lanks are of aluminum pickleel and v ibralion tes ted according 10 Navy sp ecifica lions Th e landing gear is itteel with C russ Air Siruts A Consolishydateel ins trum ent panel is provided

The ailerons are controlled b y means of cables withshyin the wing and a push-pull tube to th e wing from the iorque tube Th e wing may be removed wi thout loosenshying th e ca ble or pulleys one pin being pulled to disshyconnect th e ailerons Th e wing is des igned to be reshymoved by two men in approximately ten minutes

The ai lerons extend 10 fu ll leng th of th e trailing edge and have a chord of 4 inch es their tala I area being 65 square (eel

Th e entire ship is constructed on a jig anel a ll of the par) are interchangeable with equivalent parIgt Th e conshy

struction 01 th e fu selage (a eili tates manufac ture in jigs and it is ((signed 10 come (rom the jig in alignmenl so that the landing gear wings and olher p arts lla) be fa stened without Ihting or forcing

During Worl d W ar Two Pres t develop ed and p ashytented a cheap fas t and accurate m eth od o f cop yin g templates and pattern s by w hat h e ca ll ed th e elec troshylyti c reprodu cti o n sys tem It was es timated th at Pres t s sys tem saved Loc kh eed Doug las and Vega A ir cra ft Co mp anies over 150000 m anh o urs during th eir proshyduc ti o n of th e fam ous B-17 bo mber during th e ea rl y part o f W o rld W ar Two and advancin g th e bo mber pro du ction schedul e by three months

Fro m th at peri od on Pres t gave up ac tive fl ying and devoted all o f hi s tim e to engin eerin g ac tiv i ti es fo r Loc kh eed

Th e o nl y kn own parts of an orig in al Baby Pursuit now belo ng to Glenn Beets in King llJan A rizona

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Photos by Cary Alexander (Except As Noted)

KEMP AEROPLA N E MOTORS

Editor s N ote Brad Th om as Pres ident of th e Antique Cla ss ic Di vision received th e allowing leller from EAA m e mhe r Morton E Clark 3 10 Soldier Creek Roa d Cran ts Pass Oregon 9751 6 Knowing that Kemp motors w ere m anufactured in Mun cie Indiana we contacted Ed EscalshyIon o th at c it y to see w hat he might kno w about th em We were pleawcl to learn that Ed not onl y kne w who th e su ccess or compan y to Kemp was and had seen th e subshyject engine on cli splay but that he had planned to write a story Ed s s tory follows Morton s le ll er We hope you will t njo y reaciing abo ut the unique and re liable Ke mp powe rplants

Cene Chase

Dear Mr Thomas Some years ago while working for an aircraft sales

company in Southern California I had the opporshytunity of reconstructing an engine of some historical significance The origin and technical data of its manushyfacture or date was not known by any of us at the time but it appeared to be built for aircraft use and not a modified engine of some other function

When I was asked if the recently acquired boxes of rusty broken parts could be made to look like an engin e and mounted on a stand I had some misshy

glvlngs This included a propeller with one blade broken off at the hub I looked intently at the boss to see if it was all a joke but he only smiled and said do what you can then walked off It proved to be a very interesting project

At a time when most engines were liquid cooled this one had cylinders that had cooling fins totally machined from what may have been tubular steel stock The crankshaft appeared to be cut from a heavy plate to the shape of crank-throws and then the jourshynals machined round The crankcase was cast alumishynum An external camshaft made from a length of tubing with cast iron lobes which were slid on the tubing and pinned to the proper degrees was driven by external gears and no lubrication was provided

The valve arrangement was quite unique One massive exhaust valve operated by the camshaft through push rods and rocker arms had a small poppet type intake valve within itself The intake valve opened only as the piston on its downward stroke created a vacuum and sucked the intake mixture into the cylinder As the piston entered the compression stroke the valve closed with an assist from a small coil spring on the valve stem and it all worked

The connecting rods were a bronze alloy with poured babbit bearings reamed to size Not unlike the old 1 model Ford Pistons and rings were cast iron and very heavy

In the box of parts I found a carburetor and a sinshygle magneto They both seemed to be original with the exception of a mounting plate for the magneto I finally fabricated an assembly for it incorporating a vernier coupling from a Ranger mag drive (The only non-standard part)

Also found in the box were four steel bands which it was determined were some sort of control of exshy

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Morton E Clark with th e Kemp Model 1-4 engine which h e restored and ran Th e can mounted above th e engine served as th e temporary gas tank

haust gasses that were allowed to escape through ports drilled in the cylinders immediately below the lowest fin Scavenging of the cylinders was not only through the exhaust valves but also through these ports One can imagine the smoke oil and noise from this sysshytem

The propeller was carved from very soft wood with oak plates glued front and rear in the hub area The

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blad es w ere cove red with fabric secured with case in glue and painted silver

A few days aft er co mpl et ion of thi s proj ec t the boss had a wild idea th at it ju st might run At thi s point I feared he had lost so me marbles but to paci fy him I adapted a tachometer thro ttl e switch and a one ga llon can of gasoline A good deal of priming a deep sigh and a frisky snap of th e propelshyler was all that was needed to get this thing shuddershying to life Not thinking it might run I had not proshyvided it with any kind of retention so we all spent th e next moment or two trying to stop it from colliding with everything in the shop Well I guess the boss wasnt nuts after all All in all it was a rewarding as well as an interes ting tim e for me

As I understand this engine is now on static disshyplay at the Kemp Foundry amp Machine Works (address unknown) and has created a lot of curiosity and inshyterest in that area It is also li sted in Jan es All Th e World s Aircraft Us e the photos and story as you wish

Very truly yours Morton E Clark EAA 19947 AIC 693

In 1905 George Kemp founded the Kemp Machine Works in Muncie Indiana to perform general machine work for th e industry in the area He took great inshyterest in th e flying which th e Wrights were doing in nearby Dayton around 1910 and he became involved in th e form ation of a Muncie Aero Club Several flyshying machines were constructed by this group and hopped in st raight away runs Appar ently further enthused by thi s activity Mr Kemp decided to build an engine of his own des ign but unlike most of its contemporaries it was to be air-cooled

The Kemp Machine Works first engin e was built in April 1911 and so ld to D E Denni s of Franklin Indiana It was a four-cylinder in-lin e configuration producing 240 pounds of thru st at 1400 rpm swinging a propeller 6-6 long with a 4-6 pitch

Production of engines continued through the year including seve ral variations and improvem ents Six Model B engines followed th e first engine with 17 Model Cs and one Model D produ ced before th e year was out In 1912 produ ction continued with ten more Model Ds and four Model Es Al so a new sixshycy linder engine known as the F-6 was introduced and three were so ld

Most of th e early Kemps were used on Bleriot or Curtiss machin es as well as other homebuilt airshycraft

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Sa les records of th e co mpan y revea l so m e inshyteres ting names that would reoccur in later av iation history including engine 58 built in 1914 sold to W B Kinn er who later produced hi s own radial s common to many thirti es and forties vintage aircraft including Fl eets and Rya ns In 1916 H aro ld F Pitshyca irn of Byrn Athyn Penn sy lvania pur chased two 2-cy linder G-2s engin e 73 with ri ght h and rot ashytion and engin e 75 with lef t hand rotation Pitcairn biplanes would later be used to haul mail for th e start of Eas tern Airlines and still later Pitcairn would build autogyros

Th e mo tor Made in Muncie for Particular People Ever ywh e re saw se rvi ce allover th e world Cusshytom ers includ ed people from Buenos Aires Singashy

pore Yokahama and Rio de Jani ero as well as Alaska The two-cy linder opposed and V-8 configuration s

were added to th e produ ct lin e in 1913 and 1914 respectively In 1917 aircraft engine prod uction was discontinued due partially to shortages o f material s during th e war It is probabl e that th e forthcoming surplus of in exp ensive OX-5 s may also have been a factor

The last aeroplane motor was an 1-4 Seri al Numshyber 80 so ld to Harvey Tarlin g of Breckenridge Minshynesota as a demonstrator for $378 whi ch was 30 off retail

Claimed as th e first air-cooled aeronautical motor built in th e Unit ed States (Europea ns had u sed air coo ling as earl y as 1909 and early Curtiss engines also were air-coo led ) the GRAY EAGLES were well thought out and ahead of their tim e in many fea tures For exa mple th e cy linders w er e co mple te ly machined out of a so lid billet of steel including th ei r radiatin g fins or flanges which wer e stat ed to be scientifishyca ll y co nstru cted and proportioned with as mu ch care as th e bore of the cy linder Although far mor e difshyficult than making cast fins Kemp s machin ed fin s were thou ght to eliminate th e hard scale of cas t fin s and thus in crease hea t tr ansfe r Well over thirt een years after Kemp started production Prall and Whitshyney subs cr ibed to th e same philosophy for th ei r radials

Kemp piston rings were ground and th en shot peened to improve th e unifor mity of th eir spring tension By virtue of thi s th e vertical clea rance to th e piston groove could be made as low as 005 thus preventing ca rbo n accumulation and unde rshyfiring A two-rin g piston was used

Additional features included a hot air connection furnished for winter tim e which ducted ai r from th e cylinders to the carburetor providing an ea rly form of carburetor heat It would be th e late twenti es beshyfore this practi ce became co mmonp lace in engi n e design

Lubri ca ti o n was fairly co nv enti o nal for th at day usin g pressure-fed main bea rings and co nn ect in g rods which scooped th eir o il out of th e crankcase O ILZUM was th e reco mm end ed lubri ca ting oi l

The eng in e was well finished with all ex tern al steel parts ni ckel plated and cas tings polished Th e two- four- and six-cylinder engin es w er e large ly variations of each other All fea tured a main bearing between each crankshaft throw

A rath er uniqu e valving arrangement was com mo n to th ese engin es which is partially ev ident in th e acshyco mpanying photographs A co nce ntri c intake and exhaust valve were fitt ed to th e centerlin e of a reshy

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movable head The intake valve was spring loaded closed being sucked open by the vacuum created by the downward piston on the intake stroke In a most unusual manner the exhaust valve was fitted conshycentrically around the intake taking an inverted cup shape in the process It was opened by a conshyventional overhead rocker arm and side mou nted cam Intake gasses were admitted to the underside of the exhaust valves cup and then entered the cylinder through the concentrically positioned inshytake valve The exhaust gasses escaped around the outer periphery of the exhaust valve and exited through the four ports evident in the photographs

A further unique feature of the engine is a series of 8 ports at the lower end of the sweep of the pisshyton stroke effectively venting the cylinder at the end of each intake and exhaust stroke These ports are visible in the photographs Their main function was to discharge exhaust gasses thus improving the scavshyenging of the engine For starting these ports are cove~ed with a hose clamp affair and then after the engine is running the hose clamp is lowered exposshying the ports A noticeable power increase is apparent One might surmise that the concentrically fitted valves are probably very effective at cooling the hot exhaust valve but somewhat marginal at providing a good mixture during the intake stroke due to th e presencE of excess burnt gas around the intake valve region

Engine design called for a crankshaft speed of 1150 to 1200 rpm to maintain a high prop efficiency Paragon and Flotrop propellers were the most comshymonly used props Idling speed was determined by the minimum speed at which the engine did not gallop

Much of the emphasis of the Kemp Machine Works advertising stressed the advantages of the air-cooled engine Reduced weight and cooling drag were foreshymost advantages Kemp claimed that an air-cooled motor could provide 20-25 more power from its fuel than a water cooled engine or about t~ice the aircraft range for an equal horsepower

In case any EAAers run into a newfound Kemp the starting procedure is rather simple First a reshycharge of the permanent magnets in the magn eto is recommended Then actual starting is accomplished by priming through the exhaust valve directly into the cylinder The spark advance is th en retired (retarded) Then the needle valve on the top of the Stromberg carburetor is pressed until the bowl fills Finally the engine is propped to start it Indications are that most Kemps always start on the first blade

Although very different from the two- four- and six-cylinder engines the V-8 was a well advanced en-

Th e nameplate is on the right ide of the uclllkcae directl y below th e ex ternal camshaft

It should be mentioned in passing that th e Paragon The arguments of water coo ling versus air cooling propeller had a very wide chord and scimitar shape were never rea lly settled even as late as World War to th eir blades Consequently they were shipped to II with manufa cturers lik e Allison Rolls and Packard the customers in long and wide wooden boxes These lined up against Pratt and Whitney Wright Warner shipping crates used in co mbination with old newsshy Kinner Ranger et al Kemp m ay have begun the disshypapers serv~d well as a irport bunks for many of cussion in this country but th e deba te was never the young aspiring people of this era including E M settled Ma tty Laird and the other kids at Cicero Field in Chicago

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

Model HP No K-2 14 M-2 10

As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

Ed Es call o n

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

Tucson AZ 857 6

Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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ct- ~ ~~ -c - shyan old fuselage in a field near Oracle Arizona The

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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ati()nal ~tea man r=ly~ln

Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

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Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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64 5 N orth Wh eeling Ave nu e Mun cie Indiana 47303

Photos by Cary Alexander (Except As Noted)

KEMP AEROPLA N E MOTORS

Editor s N ote Brad Th om as Pres ident of th e Antique Cla ss ic Di vision received th e allowing leller from EAA m e mhe r Morton E Clark 3 10 Soldier Creek Roa d Cran ts Pass Oregon 9751 6 Knowing that Kemp motors w ere m anufactured in Mun cie Indiana we contacted Ed EscalshyIon o th at c it y to see w hat he might kno w about th em We were pleawcl to learn that Ed not onl y kne w who th e su ccess or compan y to Kemp was and had seen th e subshyject engine on cli splay but that he had planned to write a story Ed s s tory follows Morton s le ll er We hope you will t njo y reaciing abo ut the unique and re liable Ke mp powe rplants

Cene Chase

Dear Mr Thomas Some years ago while working for an aircraft sales

company in Southern California I had the opporshytunity of reconstructing an engine of some historical significance The origin and technical data of its manushyfacture or date was not known by any of us at the time but it appeared to be built for aircraft use and not a modified engine of some other function

When I was asked if the recently acquired boxes of rusty broken parts could be made to look like an engin e and mounted on a stand I had some misshy

glvlngs This included a propeller with one blade broken off at the hub I looked intently at the boss to see if it was all a joke but he only smiled and said do what you can then walked off It proved to be a very interesting project

At a time when most engines were liquid cooled this one had cylinders that had cooling fins totally machined from what may have been tubular steel stock The crankshaft appeared to be cut from a heavy plate to the shape of crank-throws and then the jourshynals machined round The crankcase was cast alumishynum An external camshaft made from a length of tubing with cast iron lobes which were slid on the tubing and pinned to the proper degrees was driven by external gears and no lubrication was provided

The valve arrangement was quite unique One massive exhaust valve operated by the camshaft through push rods and rocker arms had a small poppet type intake valve within itself The intake valve opened only as the piston on its downward stroke created a vacuum and sucked the intake mixture into the cylinder As the piston entered the compression stroke the valve closed with an assist from a small coil spring on the valve stem and it all worked

The connecting rods were a bronze alloy with poured babbit bearings reamed to size Not unlike the old 1 model Ford Pistons and rings were cast iron and very heavy

In the box of parts I found a carburetor and a sinshygle magneto They both seemed to be original with the exception of a mounting plate for the magneto I finally fabricated an assembly for it incorporating a vernier coupling from a Ranger mag drive (The only non-standard part)

Also found in the box were four steel bands which it was determined were some sort of control of exshy

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Morton E Clark with th e Kemp Model 1-4 engine which h e restored and ran Th e can mounted above th e engine served as th e temporary gas tank

haust gasses that were allowed to escape through ports drilled in the cylinders immediately below the lowest fin Scavenging of the cylinders was not only through the exhaust valves but also through these ports One can imagine the smoke oil and noise from this sysshytem

The propeller was carved from very soft wood with oak plates glued front and rear in the hub area The

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blad es w ere cove red with fabric secured with case in glue and painted silver

A few days aft er co mpl et ion of thi s proj ec t the boss had a wild idea th at it ju st might run At thi s point I feared he had lost so me marbles but to paci fy him I adapted a tachometer thro ttl e switch and a one ga llon can of gasoline A good deal of priming a deep sigh and a frisky snap of th e propelshyler was all that was needed to get this thing shuddershying to life Not thinking it might run I had not proshyvided it with any kind of retention so we all spent th e next moment or two trying to stop it from colliding with everything in the shop Well I guess the boss wasnt nuts after all All in all it was a rewarding as well as an interes ting tim e for me

As I understand this engine is now on static disshyplay at the Kemp Foundry amp Machine Works (address unknown) and has created a lot of curiosity and inshyterest in that area It is also li sted in Jan es All Th e World s Aircraft Us e the photos and story as you wish

Very truly yours Morton E Clark EAA 19947 AIC 693

In 1905 George Kemp founded the Kemp Machine Works in Muncie Indiana to perform general machine work for th e industry in the area He took great inshyterest in th e flying which th e Wrights were doing in nearby Dayton around 1910 and he became involved in th e form ation of a Muncie Aero Club Several flyshying machines were constructed by this group and hopped in st raight away runs Appar ently further enthused by thi s activity Mr Kemp decided to build an engine of his own des ign but unlike most of its contemporaries it was to be air-cooled

The Kemp Machine Works first engin e was built in April 1911 and so ld to D E Denni s of Franklin Indiana It was a four-cylinder in-lin e configuration producing 240 pounds of thru st at 1400 rpm swinging a propeller 6-6 long with a 4-6 pitch

Production of engines continued through the year including seve ral variations and improvem ents Six Model B engines followed th e first engine with 17 Model Cs and one Model D produ ced before th e year was out In 1912 produ ction continued with ten more Model Ds and four Model Es Al so a new sixshycy linder engine known as the F-6 was introduced and three were so ld

Most of th e early Kemps were used on Bleriot or Curtiss machin es as well as other homebuilt airshycraft

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Sa les records of th e co mpan y revea l so m e inshyteres ting names that would reoccur in later av iation history including engine 58 built in 1914 sold to W B Kinn er who later produced hi s own radial s common to many thirti es and forties vintage aircraft including Fl eets and Rya ns In 1916 H aro ld F Pitshyca irn of Byrn Athyn Penn sy lvania pur chased two 2-cy linder G-2s engin e 73 with ri ght h and rot ashytion and engin e 75 with lef t hand rotation Pitcairn biplanes would later be used to haul mail for th e start of Eas tern Airlines and still later Pitcairn would build autogyros

Th e mo tor Made in Muncie for Particular People Ever ywh e re saw se rvi ce allover th e world Cusshytom ers includ ed people from Buenos Aires Singashy

pore Yokahama and Rio de Jani ero as well as Alaska The two-cy linder opposed and V-8 configuration s

were added to th e produ ct lin e in 1913 and 1914 respectively In 1917 aircraft engine prod uction was discontinued due partially to shortages o f material s during th e war It is probabl e that th e forthcoming surplus of in exp ensive OX-5 s may also have been a factor

The last aeroplane motor was an 1-4 Seri al Numshyber 80 so ld to Harvey Tarlin g of Breckenridge Minshynesota as a demonstrator for $378 whi ch was 30 off retail

Claimed as th e first air-cooled aeronautical motor built in th e Unit ed States (Europea ns had u sed air coo ling as earl y as 1909 and early Curtiss engines also were air-coo led ) the GRAY EAGLES were well thought out and ahead of their tim e in many fea tures For exa mple th e cy linders w er e co mple te ly machined out of a so lid billet of steel including th ei r radiatin g fins or flanges which wer e stat ed to be scientifishyca ll y co nstru cted and proportioned with as mu ch care as th e bore of the cy linder Although far mor e difshyficult than making cast fins Kemp s machin ed fin s were thou ght to eliminate th e hard scale of cas t fin s and thus in crease hea t tr ansfe r Well over thirt een years after Kemp started production Prall and Whitshyney subs cr ibed to th e same philosophy for th ei r radials

Kemp piston rings were ground and th en shot peened to improve th e unifor mity of th eir spring tension By virtue of thi s th e vertical clea rance to th e piston groove could be made as low as 005 thus preventing ca rbo n accumulation and unde rshyfiring A two-rin g piston was used

Additional features included a hot air connection furnished for winter tim e which ducted ai r from th e cylinders to the carburetor providing an ea rly form of carburetor heat It would be th e late twenti es beshyfore this practi ce became co mmonp lace in engi n e design

Lubri ca ti o n was fairly co nv enti o nal for th at day usin g pressure-fed main bea rings and co nn ect in g rods which scooped th eir o il out of th e crankcase O ILZUM was th e reco mm end ed lubri ca ting oi l

The eng in e was well finished with all ex tern al steel parts ni ckel plated and cas tings polished Th e two- four- and six-cylinder engin es w er e large ly variations of each other All fea tured a main bearing between each crankshaft throw

A rath er uniqu e valving arrangement was com mo n to th ese engin es which is partially ev ident in th e acshyco mpanying photographs A co nce ntri c intake and exhaust valve were fitt ed to th e centerlin e of a reshy

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movable head The intake valve was spring loaded closed being sucked open by the vacuum created by the downward piston on the intake stroke In a most unusual manner the exhaust valve was fitted conshycentrically around the intake taking an inverted cup shape in the process It was opened by a conshyventional overhead rocker arm and side mou nted cam Intake gasses were admitted to the underside of the exhaust valves cup and then entered the cylinder through the concentrically positioned inshytake valve The exhaust gasses escaped around the outer periphery of the exhaust valve and exited through the four ports evident in the photographs

A further unique feature of the engine is a series of 8 ports at the lower end of the sweep of the pisshyton stroke effectively venting the cylinder at the end of each intake and exhaust stroke These ports are visible in the photographs Their main function was to discharge exhaust gasses thus improving the scavshyenging of the engine For starting these ports are cove~ed with a hose clamp affair and then after the engine is running the hose clamp is lowered exposshying the ports A noticeable power increase is apparent One might surmise that the concentrically fitted valves are probably very effective at cooling the hot exhaust valve but somewhat marginal at providing a good mixture during the intake stroke due to th e presencE of excess burnt gas around the intake valve region

Engine design called for a crankshaft speed of 1150 to 1200 rpm to maintain a high prop efficiency Paragon and Flotrop propellers were the most comshymonly used props Idling speed was determined by the minimum speed at which the engine did not gallop

Much of the emphasis of the Kemp Machine Works advertising stressed the advantages of the air-cooled engine Reduced weight and cooling drag were foreshymost advantages Kemp claimed that an air-cooled motor could provide 20-25 more power from its fuel than a water cooled engine or about t~ice the aircraft range for an equal horsepower

In case any EAAers run into a newfound Kemp the starting procedure is rather simple First a reshycharge of the permanent magnets in the magn eto is recommended Then actual starting is accomplished by priming through the exhaust valve directly into the cylinder The spark advance is th en retired (retarded) Then the needle valve on the top of the Stromberg carburetor is pressed until the bowl fills Finally the engine is propped to start it Indications are that most Kemps always start on the first blade

Although very different from the two- four- and six-cylinder engines the V-8 was a well advanced en-

Th e nameplate is on the right ide of the uclllkcae directl y below th e ex ternal camshaft

It should be mentioned in passing that th e Paragon The arguments of water coo ling versus air cooling propeller had a very wide chord and scimitar shape were never rea lly settled even as late as World War to th eir blades Consequently they were shipped to II with manufa cturers lik e Allison Rolls and Packard the customers in long and wide wooden boxes These lined up against Pratt and Whitney Wright Warner shipping crates used in co mbination with old newsshy Kinner Ranger et al Kemp m ay have begun the disshypapers serv~d well as a irport bunks for many of cussion in this country but th e deba te was never the young aspiring people of this era including E M settled Ma tty Laird and the other kids at Cicero Field in Chicago

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

Model HP No K-2 14 M-2 10

As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

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Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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ati()nal ~tea man r=ly~ln

Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

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(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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blad es w ere cove red with fabric secured with case in glue and painted silver

A few days aft er co mpl et ion of thi s proj ec t the boss had a wild idea th at it ju st might run At thi s point I feared he had lost so me marbles but to paci fy him I adapted a tachometer thro ttl e switch and a one ga llon can of gasoline A good deal of priming a deep sigh and a frisky snap of th e propelshyler was all that was needed to get this thing shuddershying to life Not thinking it might run I had not proshyvided it with any kind of retention so we all spent th e next moment or two trying to stop it from colliding with everything in the shop Well I guess the boss wasnt nuts after all All in all it was a rewarding as well as an interes ting tim e for me

As I understand this engine is now on static disshyplay at the Kemp Foundry amp Machine Works (address unknown) and has created a lot of curiosity and inshyterest in that area It is also li sted in Jan es All Th e World s Aircraft Us e the photos and story as you wish

Very truly yours Morton E Clark EAA 19947 AIC 693

In 1905 George Kemp founded the Kemp Machine Works in Muncie Indiana to perform general machine work for th e industry in the area He took great inshyterest in th e flying which th e Wrights were doing in nearby Dayton around 1910 and he became involved in th e form ation of a Muncie Aero Club Several flyshying machines were constructed by this group and hopped in st raight away runs Appar ently further enthused by thi s activity Mr Kemp decided to build an engine of his own des ign but unlike most of its contemporaries it was to be air-cooled

The Kemp Machine Works first engin e was built in April 1911 and so ld to D E Denni s of Franklin Indiana It was a four-cylinder in-lin e configuration producing 240 pounds of thru st at 1400 rpm swinging a propeller 6-6 long with a 4-6 pitch

Production of engines continued through the year including seve ral variations and improvem ents Six Model B engines followed th e first engine with 17 Model Cs and one Model D produ ced before th e year was out In 1912 produ ction continued with ten more Model Ds and four Model Es Al so a new sixshycy linder engine known as the F-6 was introduced and three were so ld

Most of th e early Kemps were used on Bleriot or Curtiss machin es as well as other homebuilt airshycraft

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Sa les records of th e co mpan y revea l so m e inshyteres ting names that would reoccur in later av iation history including engine 58 built in 1914 sold to W B Kinn er who later produced hi s own radial s common to many thirti es and forties vintage aircraft including Fl eets and Rya ns In 1916 H aro ld F Pitshyca irn of Byrn Athyn Penn sy lvania pur chased two 2-cy linder G-2s engin e 73 with ri ght h and rot ashytion and engin e 75 with lef t hand rotation Pitcairn biplanes would later be used to haul mail for th e start of Eas tern Airlines and still later Pitcairn would build autogyros

Th e mo tor Made in Muncie for Particular People Ever ywh e re saw se rvi ce allover th e world Cusshytom ers includ ed people from Buenos Aires Singashy

pore Yokahama and Rio de Jani ero as well as Alaska The two-cy linder opposed and V-8 configuration s

were added to th e produ ct lin e in 1913 and 1914 respectively In 1917 aircraft engine prod uction was discontinued due partially to shortages o f material s during th e war It is probabl e that th e forthcoming surplus of in exp ensive OX-5 s may also have been a factor

The last aeroplane motor was an 1-4 Seri al Numshyber 80 so ld to Harvey Tarlin g of Breckenridge Minshynesota as a demonstrator for $378 whi ch was 30 off retail

Claimed as th e first air-cooled aeronautical motor built in th e Unit ed States (Europea ns had u sed air coo ling as earl y as 1909 and early Curtiss engines also were air-coo led ) the GRAY EAGLES were well thought out and ahead of their tim e in many fea tures For exa mple th e cy linders w er e co mple te ly machined out of a so lid billet of steel including th ei r radiatin g fins or flanges which wer e stat ed to be scientifishyca ll y co nstru cted and proportioned with as mu ch care as th e bore of the cy linder Although far mor e difshyficult than making cast fins Kemp s machin ed fin s were thou ght to eliminate th e hard scale of cas t fin s and thus in crease hea t tr ansfe r Well over thirt een years after Kemp started production Prall and Whitshyney subs cr ibed to th e same philosophy for th ei r radials

Kemp piston rings were ground and th en shot peened to improve th e unifor mity of th eir spring tension By virtue of thi s th e vertical clea rance to th e piston groove could be made as low as 005 thus preventing ca rbo n accumulation and unde rshyfiring A two-rin g piston was used

Additional features included a hot air connection furnished for winter tim e which ducted ai r from th e cylinders to the carburetor providing an ea rly form of carburetor heat It would be th e late twenti es beshyfore this practi ce became co mmonp lace in engi n e design

Lubri ca ti o n was fairly co nv enti o nal for th at day usin g pressure-fed main bea rings and co nn ect in g rods which scooped th eir o il out of th e crankcase O ILZUM was th e reco mm end ed lubri ca ting oi l

The eng in e was well finished with all ex tern al steel parts ni ckel plated and cas tings polished Th e two- four- and six-cylinder engin es w er e large ly variations of each other All fea tured a main bearing between each crankshaft throw

A rath er uniqu e valving arrangement was com mo n to th ese engin es which is partially ev ident in th e acshyco mpanying photographs A co nce ntri c intake and exhaust valve were fitt ed to th e centerlin e of a reshy

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movable head The intake valve was spring loaded closed being sucked open by the vacuum created by the downward piston on the intake stroke In a most unusual manner the exhaust valve was fitted conshycentrically around the intake taking an inverted cup shape in the process It was opened by a conshyventional overhead rocker arm and side mou nted cam Intake gasses were admitted to the underside of the exhaust valves cup and then entered the cylinder through the concentrically positioned inshytake valve The exhaust gasses escaped around the outer periphery of the exhaust valve and exited through the four ports evident in the photographs

A further unique feature of the engine is a series of 8 ports at the lower end of the sweep of the pisshyton stroke effectively venting the cylinder at the end of each intake and exhaust stroke These ports are visible in the photographs Their main function was to discharge exhaust gasses thus improving the scavshyenging of the engine For starting these ports are cove~ed with a hose clamp affair and then after the engine is running the hose clamp is lowered exposshying the ports A noticeable power increase is apparent One might surmise that the concentrically fitted valves are probably very effective at cooling the hot exhaust valve but somewhat marginal at providing a good mixture during the intake stroke due to th e presencE of excess burnt gas around the intake valve region

Engine design called for a crankshaft speed of 1150 to 1200 rpm to maintain a high prop efficiency Paragon and Flotrop propellers were the most comshymonly used props Idling speed was determined by the minimum speed at which the engine did not gallop

Much of the emphasis of the Kemp Machine Works advertising stressed the advantages of the air-cooled engine Reduced weight and cooling drag were foreshymost advantages Kemp claimed that an air-cooled motor could provide 20-25 more power from its fuel than a water cooled engine or about t~ice the aircraft range for an equal horsepower

In case any EAAers run into a newfound Kemp the starting procedure is rather simple First a reshycharge of the permanent magnets in the magn eto is recommended Then actual starting is accomplished by priming through the exhaust valve directly into the cylinder The spark advance is th en retired (retarded) Then the needle valve on the top of the Stromberg carburetor is pressed until the bowl fills Finally the engine is propped to start it Indications are that most Kemps always start on the first blade

Although very different from the two- four- and six-cylinder engines the V-8 was a well advanced en-

Th e nameplate is on the right ide of the uclllkcae directl y below th e ex ternal camshaft

It should be mentioned in passing that th e Paragon The arguments of water coo ling versus air cooling propeller had a very wide chord and scimitar shape were never rea lly settled even as late as World War to th eir blades Consequently they were shipped to II with manufa cturers lik e Allison Rolls and Packard the customers in long and wide wooden boxes These lined up against Pratt and Whitney Wright Warner shipping crates used in co mbination with old newsshy Kinner Ranger et al Kemp m ay have begun the disshypapers serv~d well as a irport bunks for many of cussion in this country but th e deba te was never the young aspiring people of this era including E M settled Ma tty Laird and the other kids at Cicero Field in Chicago

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

Model HP No K-2 14 M-2 10

As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

Ed Es call o n

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

Tucson AZ 857 6

Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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ct- ~ ~~ -c - shyan old fuselage in a field near Oracle Arizona The

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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ati()nal ~tea man r=ly~ln

Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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For Sale ACRO II PLANS

The new 2-p lace aerobatic trainer and sport bishyplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos explod ed views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425~4860

For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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movable head The intake valve was spring loaded closed being sucked open by the vacuum created by the downward piston on the intake stroke In a most unusual manner the exhaust valve was fitted conshycentrically around the intake taking an inverted cup shape in the process It was opened by a conshyventional overhead rocker arm and side mou nted cam Intake gasses were admitted to the underside of the exhaust valves cup and then entered the cylinder through the concentrically positioned inshytake valve The exhaust gasses escaped around the outer periphery of the exhaust valve and exited through the four ports evident in the photographs

A further unique feature of the engine is a series of 8 ports at the lower end of the sweep of the pisshyton stroke effectively venting the cylinder at the end of each intake and exhaust stroke These ports are visible in the photographs Their main function was to discharge exhaust gasses thus improving the scavshyenging of the engine For starting these ports are cove~ed with a hose clamp affair and then after the engine is running the hose clamp is lowered exposshying the ports A noticeable power increase is apparent One might surmise that the concentrically fitted valves are probably very effective at cooling the hot exhaust valve but somewhat marginal at providing a good mixture during the intake stroke due to th e presencE of excess burnt gas around the intake valve region

Engine design called for a crankshaft speed of 1150 to 1200 rpm to maintain a high prop efficiency Paragon and Flotrop propellers were the most comshymonly used props Idling speed was determined by the minimum speed at which the engine did not gallop

Much of the emphasis of the Kemp Machine Works advertising stressed the advantages of the air-cooled engine Reduced weight and cooling drag were foreshymost advantages Kemp claimed that an air-cooled motor could provide 20-25 more power from its fuel than a water cooled engine or about t~ice the aircraft range for an equal horsepower

In case any EAAers run into a newfound Kemp the starting procedure is rather simple First a reshycharge of the permanent magnets in the magn eto is recommended Then actual starting is accomplished by priming through the exhaust valve directly into the cylinder The spark advance is th en retired (retarded) Then the needle valve on the top of the Stromberg carburetor is pressed until the bowl fills Finally the engine is propped to start it Indications are that most Kemps always start on the first blade

Although very different from the two- four- and six-cylinder engines the V-8 was a well advanced en-

Th e nameplate is on the right ide of the uclllkcae directl y below th e ex ternal camshaft

It should be mentioned in passing that th e Paragon The arguments of water coo ling versus air cooling propeller had a very wide chord and scimitar shape were never rea lly settled even as late as World War to th eir blades Consequently they were shipped to II with manufa cturers lik e Allison Rolls and Packard the customers in long and wide wooden boxes These lined up against Pratt and Whitney Wright Warner shipping crates used in co mbination with old newsshy Kinner Ranger et al Kemp m ay have begun the disshypapers serv~d well as a irport bunks for many of cussion in this country but th e deba te was never the young aspiring people of this era including E M settled Ma tty Laird and the other kids at Cicero Field in Chicago

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

Model HP No K-2 14 M-2 10

As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

Ed Es call o n

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

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Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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ati()nal ~tea man r=ly~ln

Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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Th e ex tern al clmha- th e lll lehin e(1 cy l inder fin s and tilt uniqut vd lve drrangclll ent ho w clearl y in this photo

gin e Unlike Kemp s oth er engin es it fea tured a more conventi o nal cam-dr ive n intake and ex haust valve But reall y uniqu e for thi s period in avi ati o n it was pressu re cool ed

Fitt ed to th e cranksh aft was an imp ell er whi ch p rovi ded pos iti ve for ced draft through equal length du cting to bo th banks of cy linders Fitted around each cylinder was a pa ir o f baff les whi ch insured passage o f th e coo lin g air through th e fin s and th en inward tow ards th e centerlin e ot th e V According to Kemp l i te rature thi s in sured uniform exp ansion and permitt ed th e engin e to b e entirely enclosed as th e hull o f a f lyin g boa t o r aero plane It also p ermitted arm orin g i f so d es ired (perh aps as a b id to th e Air Servi ce s requir ements fo r w ar machin es) Thi s coo lshyin g techniqu e es p ec iall y around th e cy lind er fin s would no t co me into comm o n practi ce until th e late 20s alo ng w ith th e evo luti o n o f th e NACA pressure cowlin g Very sadly o nl y one o f th ese engin es w as produced

Th ere are currentl y fi ve GREY EAG LES kno wn in existence O ne is at th e Th o mpson Pro du cts Museum in Cleve land and one is at th e Orego n State Museum in Sa lem O regon Th e Nati o nal Air and Space Mu seum has o ne O ne o ri ginall y pu rchased by George W edshydel appeared at an O X-S ga th ering in Wi chita in 1962 Fin ally B K M achin e Co mp any of Muncie whi ch is th e successo r co mpan y to Kemp M achine Works has th e 1-4 sh own in th ese ph o tos Th ey run it from tim e to tim e at fl y-ins and oth er EAA events Thi s particular engi ne was purchased in running fo r m by Mr Stew art of B K fro m Jo hn Nagel of To rrance Ca lifo rni a

Most commonly produced Kemp Engines

Model Fuel Dry Catalog No HP Bore Stroke Consumption Wt Price G-2 16 4 4 11 G PH 64 Ibs $ 200 00 1middot4 35 4 Y 4Y2 23 G PH 192 Ib s 45000 H-6 55 4 Y 4Y 3 5 G PH 272 Ibs 60000 J-8 (Vmiddot8) 80 4 41 44 G PH 3801bs 1 25000

Airdrives inclu ding

Model HP No K-2 14 M-2 10

As a foo tn o te I moved to Muncie Indiana from Cap e Canaveral Florida about two years ago Having immen sely e nj oyed th e fri endship sto ri es and inshysights of m an y first generati o n pion eers who are reshytir ed in Fl o rida I wonder ed what aviation history might present itse lf in Indiana I wasn t lo ng in learnshyin g of Kemp as Matty Laird had m enti o ned it during o ne o f our subsequ ent v isits indicating it had been an excell ent early aero engin e What a surpri se it was to lea rn th at th e B K M achin e Company the su cshycess or to Kemp Machin e Wo rks not only had mainshytain ed th e Kemp records but actuall y had a runnabl e exampl e o f a Kemp engi ne A great d ea l of cred it is d u e Tom and Phil Stew ard for realizing th e imporshytance of th eir co mpany s heritage and preserving it in this m ann er Thi s articl e is long overdu e in comshyin g to Th e V IN TAG E A IRPLA N E and m os t recentl y was pro mpt ed b y Gene Ch ases telling me o f the letshyt er received at H eadquart ers from Mr Morton E Cla rk

Ed Es call o n

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

Tucson AZ 857 6

Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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ct- ~ ~~ -c - shyan old fuselage in a field near Oracle Arizona The

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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b y Larry Cowell EAA 5 1749 2557 East Blanto n Dri ve

Tucson AZ 857 6

Ph o tos by Jim H aun EAA II025~w811ow A few years ago Charles D Klessig EAA 40563

of Galesburg North Dakota was making up the internal drag and anti-drag wires for his first Standard )-1 One of the Tucson Chapter EAAers was watching him methodically splicing the wire ends by the old method of wire winding and soldering He asked Charlie why he wasnt using Nicopress sleeves on the wires since they would be inside and hidden

Well Charlie answered maybe fifty years from now some guy might take the cover off this wing and see the Nicopresses inside and maybe he might know they didnt have Nicopresses in 1918 I wouldnt want that to happen

This kind of thinking is behind the craftsmanship that has gone into all of Charlie Klessig s restorations and now into his Swallow The Swallow is the latest in a line of aircraft that has included a Stinson SM8A )-3 Cub Pratt-Reed glider and the two magnificent Standard )-1s one OX-6 powered and one Hisso powered Also he has built a Pitts S-1 Baby Lakes -- shyand a Brieglieb BG-12 sailplane and believe-it-orshynot some violins in his spare time

Charlies love for airplanes goes back a long way He learned to fly in 1930 in a Waco 9 Since then he ~-has taught engine mechanics operated a flying school rt)and served as a ferry pilot in WWII flying almost all types of Allied combat aircraft From 1952 to 1964 he dusted and sprayed for locusts in the Middle East and in Africa as far south as Ethiopia and the Sudan

~U ~11- ~ ~The Swallow came into Charlie s life when in 1977 a bull friend Charles Kennedy of Safford Arizona spotted - lt ~

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ct- ~ ~~ -c - shyan old fuselage in a field near Oracle Arizona The

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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The Swa llow w ith a de-raled Lycoming R-680 fo r power

Charles Kl ess ig beams h is approva l of his new ly res tored Swa llow

fabr ic and wood were all gone Th e m etal app ea red to be to tally ru sted Th e engine had been removed but th ere was a nam e-pl ate reading Sw all ow Airshyplane Co mp any OX-5 Seri al 963 Kennedy found wh o th e own er was and Charlie Kl ess ig bought th e reshymain s by mail with out even see in g th em Th e airplane was d eli ve r ed to Rya n Fi eld Tu cso n Ari zo n a by Kennedy in late 1977 By April 1978 Charli e w as ready to start on th e pro ject

First th e ru st o n th e steel parts turn ed out to be mainly red-oxid e primer commonly used at th e tim e th e aircraft w as built Th e tubes w ere open ed at th eir low est points to see if ru st had thinn ed th e wall s O nly o ne longero n needed to be replaced and th en onl y parti all y Th e N struts w ere use less b ecau se

o f ru st and d ents The entire stru cture was straightened w elded wh ere necessary sandblasted and prim ed

Th e summer of 1978 saw Charli e at home in Gal esshyburg Durin g thi s time he acquired a set o f drawings fo r th e win gs f ro m Ed M cConnel of Seneca Illino is Ed had work ed on Bu ck Hilberts Swallow Al so thi s summer Charli e du g up all th e informatio n he could o n th e hi sto r y o f Sw all ow 963 Th e airpl ane h ad been regi stered to Sh o bl as ka and Willi am s In c Manitow oc Muni cipal A irpo rt Manitowoc Wi sconshysin on August 20 1928 It had last flown o n Jun e 19 1929 and th e fil e cance ll ed du e to an accident Th e wreck had been moved to Idaho wh ere Dennis Abbi e had acquired it as paym ent fo r a bad d ebt Abbie had b rought i t to O racle Arizona about forty mil es north o f Tu cson Th e airplane had been out of service sin ce befo re Charli e had learn ed to fl y

In th e fa ll of 1978 i t was back to Tu cso n for Charli e He wo rked full t ime o n th e w ings new struts and conshytro ls By Febru ary 22 1979 th e airplan e was assembled fo r pr e-cove r in sp ec ti o n Th e cov erin g a ll Stit s process w as co mplete by summer and Charli e w ent home to North Dakota to escape th e heat

By O ctober 1979 Charli e was bac k in Tu cson with an engine in th e bac k of hi s stati o n wagon It w as a b ig Lyco ming R- 680-13 w hi ch h e had bought f ro m a du ster fri end W arren Walkenshaw o f Argusv ill e North Da ko ta

By Chr istm as 1979 th e Swall ow w as co mplete Af ter half a century on th e ground th e airplane was ready to f ly again except fo r paper work whi ch w ould d elay the first fli ght Charli e had saved th e o ld DeHavilland wh eels by we lding Yr diam eter tube rin gs onto th e ro ll ed rims to accommodate 550 x 20 in ch tir es an ava il abl e siz e Th e R-680 was d e- rated to 220 hp A w ood en brass -tipped U S Propeller Company pro p w as install ed A tailwh eel replaced the tail skid Th e co lor is th e o ri ginal black fu se lage with intern ati onal orange win gs and tail fea th ers

Th e airpl an e at thi s tim e is in an exp erim ental exhibiti on ca tegory with th e installation of th e Lyco mshyin g radi al Later Ch arli e intend s to in stall an OX-5 engin e and to replace th e tailwh eel with th e orig inal type wood skid Th e OX-5 engin e and skid will b e used for fl yin g exhibiti ons whil e the Lyco min g and tailwheel will be used fo r touring and general flyin g There is a Kin g 90 radio in stall ed but no starter (nosshytalgia don t you kn ow )

With th e Swall o w co mpl e ted on e mig ht think Charli e Kl ess ig would res t o n hi s accompli shments for awhile Instead he is heading for Phoenix to res tore anoth er Swallow a Bird Biplane two OX-5 engin es and to build a Curti ss Jenny all fo r a fl ying antiqu e mu seum

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ati()nal ~tea man r=ly~ln

Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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ati()nal ~tea man r=ly~ln

Galesburg Illinois again was the scene of the Nashyt ional Stearman Fly-In during September 5-9 1979 which saw another fine attendance of Stearmans and Stearman enthusiasts A total of 55 Stearmans attended slightly down from the previous year but combined with the other antiques homebuilts and modern airplanes there was no lack of activity This was the second year the Fly-In had been extended into a five day event and each day was filled with its own special activity

The first arrival was Don Holton and Bryon Trent in Dans Stearman PT-17 N444TM from Ormond Beach Florida Each year Bryon is one of the earliest to arrive and this year he and Don descended on Monshyday to get in a full week of Stearman flying at Galesshyburg after having spent the previous week at the EAA Fly-In at Blakesburg Iowa There were no scheduled activities on Wednesday the first official day of the Fly-In and the Stearman Aerobatic Contest originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed until Friday because of the small number of Stearmans that had arrived at that time The Stearmans that were there were kept busy with local flights buddy rides practice formation flights and their pilots in r eshyacquainting themselves with friends not seen since the previous year Thursday evening most of the Stearshyman group attended a complimentary cocktail party at Tootie s Steeplechase a local watering spot and all reports indicated that a fantastic time was had by all

Friday saw another beautiful day dawn and the Stearshymans began arriving in droves from all points of the compass Singularly in pairs and in groups Early in the afternoon most of the pilots flew the short distance westward to Monmouth where the Stearman

b y To m Lowe 8 23 Kingston Lane

Crys tal Lake IL 60014

(PholO by Kenn elh D Wi son)

Sa m Mendenh a ll Ca l esb u rg A i rpo rt Man ager an d Stea rshyman pil ot a nci owner was grea tl y rlspom ishyble (or th e fine o rshyga niza tion ()f the Fl yshyIn euri ng 1171 anci poses here wi th Paul Deutsch P() i h built Wiga STOL aircra ft

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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For Sale ACRO II PLANS

The new 2-p lace aerobatic trainer and sport bishyplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos explod ed views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425~4860

For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

Rex Leonard of Indianapo li s Indiana owns this 1943 Stea rman PT- 17 N75696

Bill Wilkins The Silent Eagle a deaf-mute p ilo t from Circleville Ohio sp ent res toring this 1940 Stea rman N2S- I

Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

This Stea rman flown b y Steve A lcorn of Ind ianapo lis Ind iana is one of several used fo r promoting Red Baro n Pizza throughout th e ~

Aerobati c Co ntes t was h eld This is a fun affair wh ere th e pilot chooses any fiv e aerobatic maneuvers that he wishes and th en fli es th em for a casually chosen group o f amat eur judges m os t of whom were too t hi cken to fly th eir own Stearmans in th e event Thi s yea r only tru e amateur aerobatic pilots w ere judged Any of th e air show types who wanted to fl y were allowed to but th ey were not scored for th e co ntes t In all nin e pilots fl ew and all did a fine job in showing th e variou s skill s requir ed to ras sle a Stearman through aerobati cs Eventually the winn ers chose n were Rex Kohr in Harry Thomas Stearman Do n Buck and John McCormick After th e co mp etition of th e Cont est aerobatic ex hibiti ons w er e g iv en by Jim Lea hy in hi s stoc k N 2S-3 and Dave Dacy in hi s newly resto red pal e blue 450 custom Stearman Th e days events were capped by th e u sual fi ne ca t f ish and chi cken dinner prepared by th e Galesburg American Leg ion

As th e sun slowly peeked above th e horizo n at dawn on Saturday morning precisely at 630 A M 34 Stearmans began th eir tak e-off roll s to laun ch th e traditional dawn patrol over Galesburg The Saturshyday dawn patrol has become the highlight of th e Fl yshyIn and almost all of th e pilots parti c ipa t e eve ry year The jug g ling for position b y prosp ec tiv e passengers for any empty f ront seat is a neve r ending stru gg le and th e pilots are inundated with reques ts for r ides on this fli ght almos t from th e time th ey first arrived Over Galesburg th e Stearmans formed up into formations of various sizes and after several c ircuits ove r town headed to Monmouth for a free breakfast sponsored by th e Monmouth Pilots Association Th e Saturday morning odyssey to Monmouth usuall y has been the Fly-In s nemesis as so mething disasterous always seemed to happe n wh enever 30 to 50 Stea rshymans tri ed to get in and out of a small airport at th e same time Groundloops hard landings damaged wingtips smas hed VASI lights Stearmans in adjoinshying co rnfi eld s blown engin es and nea r mi sses all have occured But this year everyo ne got in and out w ith nary a close ca ll Unbeli eva bl e After the Stearshymans return ed to Galesburg they were all lined up on th e taxiway and a photo sess ion was held with 50 Stea rman s posing in a row with th eir pil o ts atop th e ce nt er section

Saturday afternoon the flying contest were conshyducted and hotly con tested by most of th e Stearman pilots Th eir skill s in sh o rt field take-offs accuracy landings sa lvo bombi ng and for mation f lyi ng were clearly ev ident Late in th e aftern oon the field was closed for a Stea rman on ly mini air show Precision

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

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The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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For Sale ACRO II PLANS

The new 2-p lace aerobatic trainer and sport bishyplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos explod ed views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425~4860

For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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(Photo by Ken neth D Wilson)

Some of th e Tull ah o m a Bunch th at a llencs th e Nashytional Stearm an Fl y- In every ytar

(Photo by Kenneth O Wilson)

74 yea r o ld D eed Lev y was th e Sp ecial G ues t during th e Fl y-In H e served as th e Chief Exp erim en ta l Tes t Pilo t fo r th e Stea rman Co fo r almos t all oi its ex istence

(Photo b y Kenneth D Wilson)

John M cCormi ck and ex -Stea rshyma n Chief Experimenta l Tes t Pilo t D eed Levy in flight over Ga lesburg in Jo hn s 1942 Stearshym an N2S-2 N60562

Stearman aerobatics were demonstrated by Dave Dacy and Bob Heuer in their air show modified 450 hp Stearshymans and Jim Leahy who is just amazing in his stock 220 hp N2S-3 That evening the banquet and awards presentation was held at the Howard Johnsons in downtown Galesburg

On of the highlights of this year s fly-in was th e presence of 74-year-old Deed Levy who had served as the Chief Experimental Test Pilot for the Stearman Company for almost all its corporate existence and had made the initial test flights of almost every type Stearman built He was the 1979 recipient of the StearshyITan Restorers Associations Lloyd Stearman Memorial Award for his contributions in the development of Stearman airplanes alJd his current effort to have Lloyd Stearman enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame Deed was constantly surrounded by Stearman enthusiasts wanting to hear stories on his flying exshyperiences and also- to gain from his technical knowlshyedge with the different airplane engine and propeller configurations He helped several pilots with speshy

cific technical problems and even demonstrated that he could still fly a Stearman including some aerobatics Undoubtedly he was the most popular special guest the National Stearman Fly-In has ever had

Another bright spot this year was Paul Duetsch a Stearman lover who flew his Polish built Wilga STOL aircraft from La Habra California to the FlyshyIn where he adamantly claimed that it was a Polish Stearman He barnstormed rides in his ungainly looking airplane throughout the Fly-In and was in the air almost constantly Before he departed for home many Stearman pilots as well as the general public had flown in his unique airplane and he donated several hu ndred dollars towards th e expenses of the Fly-In

Sundays dawn patrol was a mere shadow of the previous days as only five Stearmans could coax their pilot into the cool early morning air two days in a row By noon most of the Stear mans had departed for home bringing the Fly-In to another close except

(Photo by Kenneth D Wilson)

Ch e t Reyckert a nd his 194 3 Stea rm an N58 15N are regulars at th e Fl y-In each yea r from Skiatook Oklashyhom a

for the public air show tilat afternoon The air show was by far the best one ever presented at the Stearshyman Fly-I nand featu red Stearman aerobatics by Bob Heuer Jim Leahy and Dave Dacy Bob Lyjack in his 1929 Waco Taperwing a Luscombe act by Jack Lane Pete Myers Rick Cunningham in his first proshyfessional air show in himiddots Bucker Jungmann John Gardner in a Pitts and parachute jumper J T Hill The air show proved to be spectacular and everyone was well pleased with its presentation

As the sun faded below the horizon five days dedicated to the Stearman concluded perhaps the best Stearman Fly-In yet and everyone expressed the desire for an even better one the following year Anyon e with an interest in Stearmans is cordially invited to the 9th National Stearman Fly-I n at Galesshyburg Illinois September 3-71980

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

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A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

22

The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

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b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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I CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MARCH 16-22 - LAKELAND FLORIDA - Sun N Fun 1980 For further info rmation please contact Betty Jones 4195 Forrest Drive Mulberry FL 33860

APRil 25-27 - BAY CITY TEXAS - Houston Sport Aviation Spring Fling Fly-In sponsored by AnshytiqueClass ic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Rocky Howard 5262 Hu ckl eb erry Houston TX 77056 Telephone 713621-2510

APRil 27 - BARKSDALE LOUISIANA - Barksdale AFB is hosting an Open House and Air Show For further information pl ease contact Lt Col Larry L Schushyler or Major Thomas E Flodstrom Fly-In Project Officers 2 CSGOT Barksdale AFB LA 71110 Teleshyphone 1 1 Co l Schuler 318456-4204 or Major Flodstom 318456-3484

MAY 2-4 - BURLINGTON NORTH CAROLINA - FlyshyIn For fu rther in formation please contact Geneve McKiernan 5301 Fin sbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

MAY 16-19 - WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA - Eastern Cessna 1901195 Club M eeting For further informashytion please co ntact Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Road North Olmsted OH 44070

MAY 31 - HOLLAND MICHIGAN - AntiqueClassic Chapter 8 is sponsoring a Spring Happening at the Park Township Airport For further informashytion please co ntact Gary Van Farowe 1460 Otshytawa Beach Road Holland MI 49423 Telephone 6middot16399-4623

JUNE 1 - DEKALB ILLINOIS - DeKalb County Corn EAA Chapter 241 and MST Aviation co-sponsor the Annual EAA Fly-In Drive-In Breakfast at the Municishypal Airport about 30 miles SE of Rockford For further information please contact Marlin Crown 159 Thomas Sycamore IL 60178 Telephon e 815 875-6856

JUNE 1 - OCEAN CITY MARYLAND - Chapter 532 is sponsoring th e annual Ocean City Fly-In and Antique Car Show Ocean City Airport For further information pl ease co ntact Bill Mackey Chapter 532 President 2301 Meadow Drive Salisbury MD 21801

JUNE 7-8 - FLANDERS NEW JERSEY - 2nd Annual AntiqueClassic Chapter 7 Fly-In Flanders Valley Airport For further information please contact Walt Ahl e rs A C Chapter 7 President 60 Main Street Fland ers NJ 07836 Telephon e 201 584shy7983

JUNE 7-14 - FORT WAYNE INDIANA - 3rd Annual 70 Knotters Fly-Out and Goodwill Tour sponshysored by EAA Chapt er 2 For further information please contact Jo e Dickey 511 Terran ce Lk Road Columbu s IN 47201 Tel ephone 812342-6878

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON TEXAS - Texas Chapter AAA Southwest Regional Fly-In at the Municipal Airshy

port 25 miles N of DFW Regional Airport outside the TCA For further information please contact Jane McCracken RR 4 Box 16B Roanoke TX 76262 Telephone 817430-0163

JUNE 14-15 - FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA - Antique Aircraft Fly-In Air Show Shannon Airport For further information please contact Sidney L Shanshynon Jr co Shannon Airport P O Box 109 Fredshyericksburg VA 22401

JUNE 21-22 - ANSONIA CONNECTICUT - 2nd Anshynual PIPER VAGABOND FLY-IN Ansonia Airport 80 oct fuel For further information please conshytact Jim Jenkins 569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468 Telephone 203261-5586

JUNE 27-29 - HAMILTON OHIO - 20th Annual Waco Reunion Fly-In For further information please contact Ray Brandly 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton OH 45015 Telephone 513868-0084

JUNE 28-29 - ROMEOVILLE ILLINOIS - EAA Chapshyter 15 amp 86 are co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Midshywest Regional Air Show at the Lewis University Airport Theme is The Barnstorming Days of Aviashytion Hoping to have sufficient antique aircraft to stage a parade of flight For further informashytion please contact Frank Goebel Field Direcshytor Midwest Regional Air Show Inc P O Box 71 Lockport I L 60441

AUGUST 2-9 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 28th Anshynual EAA Convention and Sport Aviation Exhibishytion - the world s largest and most exciting aviashytion event For further information please conshytact Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414 425-4860

AUGUST- 10-16 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - The International Aerobatic Clubs annual aerobatic competition Biggest field anywhere for an aeroshybatic contest plus greatest variety of aerobatic airshycraft For further information please contact Herb Cox Contest Chairman 812 Taylor Avenue Mt Vernon IL 62864

AUGUST 17-30 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - World Aerobatics 80 For the first time ever the U S will host the World s Aerobatic Championships Fourteen countries will participate Dont miss this historic event For further information please contact World Aerobatics 80 P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

OCTOBER 1-5 - TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE - 2nd Annual EAA National Fall Fly-In Dont mi ss this one For further information please contact EAA Fall Fly-In P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 Telephone 414425-4860

21

A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

22

The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

23

b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

24

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bull 0

SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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For Sale ACRO II PLANS

The new 2-p lace aerobatic trainer and sport bishyplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos explod ed views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425~4860

For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

26

A Album By George Hardie Jr EAA 500

EAA Historian

Photos From The Authors Co llection

When the first World War broke out in August 1914 Glenn Curtiss suddenly realized that his Hammondsport plant could not possibly handle the flood of orders coming in for his aircraft So he rented a building in Buffalo to manufacshyture airplanes meanwhile expanding facilities at Hammondsport to concentrate on engine production In the Spring of 1915 he expanded further by building a new factory on Churchill Street in Buffalo By December he had included an enshygine factory on Elmwood Avenue A flying field on Niagara Falls Boulevard was acquired and named the Curtiss Aviation Field

Indicative of the tremendous demands placed on the Curtiss Company at this time was an incident which occurred when the British government placed a large order Curtiss cabled that he could not possibly complete the order without a costly plane expansion The British asked how much advance payment he needed Curtiss replied at least 75000 meaning dollars The British assumed he meant pounds and forwarded $600000 as payment

Late in 1914 J A D McCurdy a Canadian who had been an original memshyber of the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907 proposed to his government that a facility be established to produce aircraft in Canada Accordingly Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Ltd was formed in April 1915 and a factory acquired in Toronto McCurdy was made Secretary-Treasurer and Managing Director of the company

The Curtiss L- was the first in a series of triplane designs by th e compan)

This L-l trip lane was used in a uniqu e parachute experiment seen mounted below the fuselage ahead or the tail

Thtmiddot icle-b)-ide whee l control arrangement can be seen in this rear view of the Moclc L- I

22

The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

23

b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

24

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

25

For Sale ACRO II PLANS

The new 2-p lace aerobatic trainer and sport bishyplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos explod ed views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425~4860

For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

26

The Canada on the erect ing (loor of the Toronto plant in Jul y I) 15

The first produ ct of th e new co mpany was a bomber version of th e America flying boat Named th e Ca nada wings and tail surfaces of th e flying boat were combined with a landplane fuselage The two tractor engines were to be the new Curtiss VX of 160 hp Design work was started in May and th e airplane was ready for flight by th e end of July

This view of th e Ca nada shows the expans e of the 76 ft upper wing

After a series of tests the prototype was shipped to England for evaluation An additional 11 of the type incorporating design improvements were constructed for the British government However technical advances in aircraft armament etc made the design obsolete and a further order of 25 was cancelled

A D McCurcly left in the cockpit w ith F C Ericson design eng ineer poses w ith Side view of the Ca nada shows the tail boom mounting and th e rear crew position o ther Officials

23

b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

24

r 1 middotamiddot

~ ~ a ______1-_______-_____ sCI

bull 0

SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

25

For Sale ACRO II PLANS

The new 2-p lace aerobatic trainer and sport bishyplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos explod ed views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425~4860

For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

26

b y Lionel Salisbury Seven H arper RoadBORDENS AEROPLANE POSTERS Brampton Ontario Ca nada L6W 2 W3

Article Number 14 Pos ter Number 15 Series Number FROM THE 1930S As regular readers of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashy

zine may recall this series on the Borden Posters started almost a year ago after my oldest son David came home with 18 posters that had been given to him by Mr Glenn Inch of Brampton Glenn had collected them as a young man in 1936 Th e first poster appeared in the February 1979 issue of Th e VINTAGE A IRPLANE and we have presented one each month since that time

One of the most satisfying aspects of presenting the posters has been the respon se from various EAA members The issue of last July f ea tured the Borden Poster on the Ford Tri-Motor and in that article I inquired if anyone could identify th e airport in the background Glenn Buffin gton of Seattle Washingshyton and Frank Abar of Livonia Michigan both wrote to identify it as the o ld Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan and they supplied so m e interesting inshyformation on that location

In the very first article in th e ser ies I had ex shyplained that we had been given 18 posters out of a total of 19 that had been issued in Canada I neglected to mention the name of the poster that was missing

Mr Cedric Galloway of Hesp eria California reshysponded to that article by check ing his personal colshylection that he still had after forty years Since he didn t know which one was missing he listed the posters that he did have Alas h e did not have the one I needed which was entitled The New Martin Bomber - Mystery Ship for th e Army Surprisingly though his list did include three that I did not know even existed He also advised that he had dated hi s posters when they were received and that they were dated 1933 and 1934 That was some three years beshyfor e they were issued in Canada The promotional material and lists on the backs of th e posters yielded the answer to the mystery

It appears that the posters had originated not with the Borden Company but with an organization ca ll ed th e Thompson Malted Milk Company of Waukeshysha Wisconsin They had initi ated the series apshyparently in 1933 and had iss ued 18 posters which you could get by returning coupons w edged into th e

The Clipp er Ship

lid s of their cans of Malted Milk Powder It seems this co mpany was then absorbed by the Borden Company of 350 Madison Avenue New York New York likely in 1934 Bordens mu st have liked th e posters beshycause they brought out a second seri es dropping a few from the first group and adding a few new ones Th ey then made th e posters available in Canada in 1936 through their Canadian subsidiary By co mparing th e various li sts printed on the backs of the posters the grand total issued co mes to 30 different posters

Mr Galloway very kindl y sent th e three posters which we will add to those now appear ing in Th e VINshyTAG E A IRPLANE and they will ap pear as articles 19 20 and 21 Th en to my great delight Mr Marion McshyClure of Bloomington Illinoi s not only dug out the posters h e had but he sent in hi s entire co llection Thi s group has yielded an add itional six posters to bring our series to a total of 27 I would like to exshypress my thanks to both of th ese gentl emen for th eir interes t and thoughtfuln ess That means we now have an almos t co mplete collection - all but three The three that are mi ss ing are as follows

Th e Stout Sky Car Th e Ne w Martin Bomber M ys tery Ship ior the Army Ca ptain Jimmy Thomp son and his Dog Scottie

That la st poster appeared o nly in the original Thompson Malted Milk seri es and may be difficult to come up with since as Marion McClure exp lain ed some co llectors didnt bother to send in for that one It wasn t airp lane

I would grea tl y appreciate heari ng from anyone who may have any of the missing posters in th eir co lshylection of airplane memorabilia If you are ab le to loa n any of the three I would ask you to advise me by mail to my home address Please ship th e poster(s ) under separate cover roll ed and wrapped and by registered mail also to my home add ress Inserting th e poster into a cardboard tube is even better I will th en prepare some appropriate no tes to go with it and will forward it to Hales Corners for processing It will then be return ed to you aga in by regis tered mail I think it would be great fun if we were ab le to come up with what will probably be the only co ll ecshyti on of th e thirty ThompsonBorden Posters from the 1930s (Next month th e Douglas Sleeper )

24

r 1 middotamiddot

~ ~ a ______1-_______-_____ sCI

bull 0

SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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For Sale ACRO II PLANS

The new 2-p lace aerobatic trainer and sport bishyplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos explod ed views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425~4860

For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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SIKORSKY S-42A DESCRIPTION

Type Four-engined commercial flying boat Wings High wing externally braced monoplane

Wing structure is of two spar construction with comshypression struts and stressed metal skin covering The metal skin covers both sides of the wing forward of the rear spar Rearward of the rear spar ribs and fabshyric covering is used Spars compression struts and ribs are trusses built of extruded duralumin shapes and bent sheet duralumin sections fastened with steel bolts and duralumin rivets The wing is conshystructed in one piece and attaches to the hull by a faired super-structure on the hull and two diagonal struts on each side Differentially con troll ed balanced ailerons extend the full length of the tapered tips of the wing A hydraulically contro ll ed flap extend s across the full straight portion of the wing Wing is flushed riveted all over

Hull Two step type with long stern Nine watershytight compartments Structure consists of deep keel

widely spaced transverse frames and heavy stringers Keel and frames are of plate girder type Duralumin shapes and sheet used throughout All seams sealed with fabric and marino g lu e Flush riveting allover

Tail Unit Monoplane type Horizontal surfaces and twin fins and rudder supported by hull and side struts Elevator and rudders balanced All tail planes are of metal construction fabric covered Patented unsymmetrical self-compensating rudders and fins are used to offset unsymmetrical engi ne thrusL

Powerplants Four 750 bhp Pratt and Whitney S1EG Hornet geared air-cooled radial engines rated at 7000 feet altitude in four nacelles faired into the leading edge of the wing Eight fuel tanks arranged so that two supp ly each engine and four oil tanks one for eac h engine are installed in th e wing All tanks are of riveted duralumin co nstruction Direct drive electric starters with hand cranking provision provided Starters con troll ed from pilots compartshyment

Accommodations In the bow of the hull is the anchor compartment Next compartment aft is the pilots compartment with complete provision for the mechanic and radio operator The third compartshyment is equipped for baggage andor express and also may be arranged for passengers for short flights The fourth fifth sixth and seventh compartments are equipped for eight passengers each Rearward of the last passenger compartment are two toilets and water fountain The eighth compartment conshytains th e main entrance and accommodations for th e steward The tail compartment is available for addishytional baggage or express matter The forward bagshygage compartment is in the plane of rotation of the propellers

Di mensi ons Span 118 Length 67 8 Heigh t 17 4 Wing Area 1340 sq fL

Weights and Loadings Weight Empty 20924 Ibs Weight of Fuel and Oil 7955 Ibs Weight of Equipshyment 2181 Ibs Payload 8060 Ibs Licensed Gross Weight 40000 Ibs Wing Loading 299 Ibs per sq ft Power Loading 1333 Ibs per bhp

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For Sale ACRO II PLANS

The new 2-p lace aerobatic trainer and sport bishyplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos explod ed views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425~4860

For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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For Sale ACRO II PLANS

The new 2-p lace aerobatic trainer and sport bishyplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos explod ed views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425~4860

For Sale PROPELLER

Ground adjustable propeller for Lam p~rt middotR-266 $200000 Please contact John Buehler 3~ La Plata NW Albuquerque NM 87107505345-3261

Dear Mr Cox On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of my

former airplane Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UXI I am sending you herewith three photographs at your free disposal

With best regards BERGER-HELICOPTER Hans Berger EAA 59482 CH-6515 Geido TI Tieino Switzerland LETTERS

Junkers Junior A 50 HB-UX cleared for lak e-oif

Hans Berger preflighls lh e 85 hp Siemens Sh

Junkers Jun ior A 50 -IB-UX on final

3A engine before flying his Junkers Junior

Dear Sir SZP has declared itself the Howard capitol of the

world and we are working on reviving the Howard Club At this writing we have five flying Howards on our little airport with another inbound and a seventh within a few weeks of flight We would like to hear from anyone with an interest in Benny and his offshyspring As you can imagine any and all information on parts is of interest as is any historic information war stories We hope to produce a newsletter at regushylar intervals as well as act as an information and parts exchange The only way this grand scheme will work is with input from the Howard fans out ther e so please let us h ear from you

Sincerely Jack Hogan Howard Club P O Box 291 Santa Paula CA 93060

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(Phoro by Gene Chaw)

Scale model aircraie play all important rolf in aviatioll museums throughout the world They are used to porshytray full size aircraft when it would be impos~ible or inshyfea sible to displa y the ac tual machin es The models shown above are on display in the Paul H Poberezny Air Museum Th e two top shelves contain models of WW I or earlier vintage and were built by Gord on Laco mbe of Kenosha WI On the bottom sheli are models buil t by Go r don Nelso n of Manitowoc WI con sisting of Johnny Livingstons Monocoupe 110 (modified) racer Kinner Sport wing 8- Doug Davi Traveair Mystery Ship ra cer and Art Chesters Coon racer Also Oil the botshytom shelf is cl Morton M-5 five cylinder modd aircraft ga s engine loaned by Stan Go mo ll of Minneapo li s MN