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CONTENTS
VAA News
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AirVenture '04
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STAFF
Publisher
Editor-in-Chief
Executive Director/Editor
VAA Administrator
News Editor
Photography
Mystery Plane
by H.G. Frautschy
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French Delicacy
The Morane Saulnier 230 of Tom Leaver
by Budd Davisson
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Production Manager
Advertising Sales
Pass It To Buck
EAA has a Swallow!
by Buck Hilbert
Classified Ad Manager
Copy Editor
Classified Ads
Graphic Design
Tom Poberezny
Scott Spangler
H.G. Frautschy
Theresa Books
Ric Reynolds
Jim Koepnick
Bonnie Bartel
Julie Russo
Loy Hickman
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Isabelle Wiske
Colleen Walsh
Kathleen Witman
Olivia Phillip
GEOFF ROBINSON
PRESIDENT, VINTAGE ASSOCIATIO N
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Tributes
In the tributes to three of
our friends who we lost earlier
this summer, I failed to add a
paragraph honoring the family
members affected by their loss.
Darren Banfie ld is survived
by his mother, Susan, his sister,
Diane, and his brothers, David
and Don.
Ken Love is survived by
his daughter, Jeri Mlakar, his
two grandchildren, Olivia and
Audrey, his former wife, Geri
Love, and his two sisters, Joan
Allemand and Carole Rittmiller.
Ewell"Budd" Dake is survived
by his wife of 38 years, Connie.
Our condolences to all family
members and friends affected by
the loss of these men. The cause
of both accidents remains under
investigation.
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Mr. Mulligan on the day of its first flight. Few fairings had been applied at this point. The exhaust system visible in this
shot is different from what appears on later photographs of the racer.
PHOTOS COURTESY DON PRATI
between Mulligan and the pylon!
Harold goes on to win the coveted
Thompson Trophy Race and it is
a clean sweep of the Nationals for
Benny Howard.
Benny went to the Nationals
for one reason-to win as much
money as he could. The money
was to be used to open a factory
to produce America's fastest 300
h.p., four-place cabin monoplane.
Benny was already into the design
with Gordon Israel, the co-designer
and co-pilot of the Mulligan for the
Bendix win. Benny left Cleveland
with a hat full of money, but before
he left, he called Chicago and said
go full bore on the new airplane.
Before we go on about the
Howards, I would like to clear our
engine here. The December 1973
issue of the AOPA Pilot carried an
article about Benny Howard's DGAs.
It was written by my good friend
and popular EAAer, Peter Bowers
of Fly Baby fame. In my opinion,
Pete Bowers is the foremost aviation
historian and the most accurate
writer in the aviation media,
however, his researchers or the
printers zinged him this time. I don't
know what happened but the facts
got a bit screwed up on a couple of
pOints. I hope I'm not nit picking,
but I find my version different than
his ... anyway, I vas dere, Charlie!
Pete states that the Mulligan was
built in a store in Chicago-not so! It
was built in Kansas City. Ask the man
who helped build it, EAA Warbird
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and Mr. Mulligan on the day of the first flight of the racer. Note
the lack of fairings and paint.
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OCTOBER 2004
These two photos were used in the Howard Aircraft Corporation promotional
publication. DGA-11 NC 18208 450 Horse Power Wasp Jr. Colors: Insignia
Blue and Yukon Gold
OCTOBER 2004
Tom Leaver
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EAA
AirVenture
This year's EAA AirVenture Oshkosh was chock-full of neat things to do and great planes and
people to visit. Sit back and enjoy a sampling of what we saw this year.
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The winner of the Grand Champion Classic Lindy was Boyd "Butch"
Walsh's beautiful Stinson 108-2. Here he shows Charlie
a few of
the details on the neatly finished Stinson.
OCTOBER 2004
This year's Antique judges: (L-R) Chas Bell, Don Coleman, Dale Gustafson, Ken Morris, Gene Morris, Bill Halverson,
Jerry Brown, Phil Coulson, Dave Clark, Mike Hoag, Mike Shaver, Densel Williams, John Pipkin, Xen Motsinger
This year's Contemporary judges: (s tanding L-R) Art Anderson,
(Kneeling L-R) Tim Popp, Liz Popp, Jeff Anderson, John Goodloe
This year's Classic judges: (back row, L-R) Steve Bender, Stan York, John Womack, Frank Bass, Jerry
Gippner, Dale Rose, Frank Moynahan, Kevin Pratt
(Front row, L-R): Shy Bourgeois, Joan Steinberger, Clyde Bowgeois, Larry Keitel, Rodney Roy, John
Swander, Jay Swander, Dean Richardson
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Books chats
a
member while Vintage Airplane contributing editor Budd
Davisson talks about his latest book, Cobalt Blue, with
another VAA member who stopped by the Vintage Airplane
tent. Throughout the week various contributing authors
and the editor of the magazine staffed the tent, available to
answer members' questions and listen to their suggestions.
The VAA's Tall Pines Cafe was up and running four days
before the start of the convention, serving meals to many
members who arrived early. On Friday and Saturday meals
were served all day. Starting Sunday, only breakfast was
served. On Sunday morning Thayer Syme (holding his son,
Gryftin) and his wife, Anne, stopped for breakfast after
watching Eric Presten land Frank Schilling's Curtiss Jenny
on the grass of the lightplane runway.
Jones
170A rests in the grass in
the last row of Vintage showplane parking.
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Anti-authority
In the past four articles I have
been talking about hazardous
attitudes. Hazardous attitudes exist
in all of us pilots. They are referred
to as hazardous because if allowed
to go unchecked, they certainly act
to either start the forging of the
accident chain or to reinforce that
chain in such a way that the chain
might become impossible to break.
If that doesn't create a hazard to
our flying, what does?
There are three steps in dealing
with hazardous attitudes. The first
step is to recognize the fact that you
have the attitude in the first place.
It isn't always easy to do that. In the
previous article I spoke of one pilot
who was unable to recognize that
fact. I know that many of us can tend
towards denial, especially when it
comes to admitting to ourselves that
some of these attitudes might be
harbored within our otherwise safe
flying habits. However, it doesn't
take too much honest insight to
recognize and admit to oneself that
they are present.
The next step is to learn the
appropriate antidote. For every
hazardous attitude there is an
antidote that can be applied to
counter the mentality that might
lead us to our doom. For example if
we tend to be macho in our flying,
the antidote to that attitude is:
"taking chances is foolish." Ifwetend
to feel that we are inv ulne rabl e
(not really too much different from
the macho attitude, or at least
they typically go hand in hand)
the antidote of " it can happen
to me" will help to counter that
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BY H.G. FRAUTSCHY
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was published
in AV I ATION
magazine in 1929.
The company
was one of many
smal l aircraft
manufacturers in
Wichita, Kansas,
from 1927-30.
The Fe li x the Cat
cartoon character
painted on one of the doors is evidently
in honor of (or intended to make fun
of) the company's founder, Felix Knoll.
liThe same pictur e and other
historical details can be found on the
Aerofiles website at www.aero(iies.com.
Another reference to the KN-1 can
be found on the Wings over Kansas
website, www.wingsoverkansas.com.
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transportation section.
I got involved in this restoration
and that led to my discovery that I had
a Swallow in storage.
What was a Swallow? Well, we're
back to where I started.
The Swallow was the first airplane
to begin contract airmail service
in 1926 when the Post Office let
contracts to private operators to
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on we had it made!
EAA's Swallow came with the
220 Continental. Again, there
is a story here. The engine was
donated by one of our United
Airlines Foundation members ,
retired captain Clay Lacy, and was
built up by the son of a retired
United engineering test pilot who
specializes in engine overhaul. This
project, much like the first one,
has been a United family affair.
Take a look at the pictures of
the finished Swallow. It is a beauty.
They didn't look that good in 1926,
that's for sure. The luxury of an electrical
system, radio, and a reliable engine were
lacking, but this one has it all.
My EM ground crew and builders,
Gary Buettner and Colin Hildebrandt,
hovering over me like fathers over a
new baby, briefed me on what, where,
and how. Gary gave me a cockpit
checkout, and explained he'd kick my
butt if I did anything to hurt "his"
airplane, and the time had come.
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