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A I R P L A N E
Vol. 40, No. 3
2012
M A R C H
CONTENTS
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News
16 Achtung, Baby!
Prague E.114M Air Baby HB-UAF restored to flying condition
by Stefan Degraef
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EAA Publisher
Director of EAA Publications
Executive Director/Editor
Business Manager
Mystery Plane
by H.G. Frautschy
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Classifieds
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STAFF
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COVERS
FRONT COVER: Joe Santana ares out as he gets r eady to tickle the grass airstrip at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh with his T ravel Air 3000. T urn to page nine for Sparky Bar nes Sar gents ar ticle
on this beautifully r estor ed example, which was on display during the 2011 salute to the centennial of U.S. Air Mail. V AA photo by H.G. Frautschy .
Rod Hightower
J. Mac McClellan
H.G. Frautschy
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BACK COVER: An alpine meadow isnt often the setting for an airplane in the pages of Vintage
Airplane, so we wer e quite pleased to bring you the stor y of a rar e Praga E.114M Air Baby . Stefan DeGraef sent us the stor y of this ne Swiss-r egister ed example fr om his home in Eur ope.
Photo by Edwin Bor remans.
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VAA NEWS
Vintage Aircraft Data
Newly signed FAA reauthorization bill allows for release of abandoned data
ing data relating to aircraft that were certificated between 1927 and 1939, and precludes
the destruction of any such airworthiness
and historically significant documentation.
The amendment also eliminates the ability of
type certificate holders from that period to
force the FAA to withhold such data under the
claims of trade secrets. The amendment was
proposed by longtime EAA member Greg Herrick, an owner and restorer of numerous vintage aircraft, and included in the legislation by
Rep. Sam Graves (R-Missouri).
There are two initial and complementary
victories contained in the nearly decade-long
effort: the preservation and release of historically significant documentation necessary to
restore and maintain truly antique prewar aircraft contained in the Herrick Amendment, and the EAA
initiative giving the FAA authority to release the design
and airworthiness data for both pre- and post-World War
II general aviation aircraft that are no longer supported by
a manufacturer, said Doug Macnair, EAA vice president
of government relations.
These efforts do not give completely unfettered access to design data, continued Macnair, but they do go
a long way toward helping owners of antique and vintage
aircraft maintain these beautiful flying pieces of history.
The EAA effort also seeks to protect not only owners of
aircraft that are no longer supported by a manufacturer,
but also those that may not be supported in the future,
making this a long-term protection for all general aviation owners. We are very grateful to the FAA for their
collaboration in this effort and their willingness to introduce the original language into the early drafts of the
reauthorization bill on behalf of E AA and all who own
and fly vintage aircraft.
As with all new laws, time will show how effective these
measures prove to be in obtaining certification and design
data for older aircraft. EAA will be monitoring how this
process unfolds and is prepared to pursue additional remedies should they become necessary. For now, however,
owners of vintage aircraft have an opportunity to seek
data by filing a Freedom of Information Act request to
the FAA (visit the FAA FOIA office website at www.faa.
gov/foia) for the information necessary to restore and
maintain their aircraft, and those owners have a fighting
chance of actually obtaining it.
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Nominat
ions
C A L L F OR V I N TA G E A I R C R A F T A S S O C I AT ION
To nominate someone is easy. It just takes a little time and a little reminiscing on your part.
Think of a person; think of his or her contributions to vintage aviation.
Write those contributions in the various categories of the nomination form.
Write a simple letter highlighting these attributes and contributions. Make copies of
newspaper or magazine articles that may substantiate your view.
If at all possible, have another individual (or more) complete a form or write a letter about this
person, confirming why the person is a good candidate for induction.
This years induction ceremony will be held near the end of October. Well have follow-up
information once the date has been finalized.
We would like to take this opportunity to mention that if you have nominated someone for
the VAA Hall of Fame; nominations for the honor are kept on file for 3 years, after which the
nomination must be resubmitted.
Mail nominating materials to: VAA Hall of Fame, c/o Charles W. Harris, Transportation Leasing Corp.
PO Box 470350
Tulsa, OK 74147
E-mail: cwh@hvsu.com
Remember, your contemporary may be a candidate; nominate someone today!
Find the nomination form at www.VintageAircraft.org, or call the VAA office for a copy
(920-426-6110), or on your own sheet of paper, simply include the following information:
Date submitted.
Name of person nominated.
Address and phone number of nominee.
E-mail address of nominee.
Date of birth of nominee. If deceased, date of death.
Name and relationship of nominees closest living relative.
Address and phone of nominees closest living relative.
VAA and EAA number, if known. (Nominee must have been or is a VAA member.)
Time span (dates) of the nominees contributions to vintage aviation.
(Must be between 1950 to present day.)
Area(s) of contributions to aviation.
Describe the event(s) or nature of activities the nominee has undertaken in aviation to
be worthy of induction into the VAA Hall of Fame.
Describe achievements the nominee has made in other related fields in aviation.
Has the nominee already been honored for his or her involvement in aviation and/or the
contribution you are stating in this petition? If yes, please explain the nature of the
honor and/or award the nominee has received.
Any additional supporting information.
Submitters address and phone number, plus e-mail address.
Include any supporting material with your petition.
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The 1928 Travel Air was own for re-creation scenes for the lm.
Empennage.
Instrument panel.
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Current Caretaker
Joe Santana grew up in Sacramento, California, where his
neighbor first introduced him to
aviation. He had a homebuilt Stits
Playboy at the airport, and he used
to let me sit in it, shares Joe. After
I soloed at 17 and earned my private that summer, he also took me
to my first EAA meeting.
Joe also spent a lot of time hanging around a duster strip just south of
Sacramento. Thats where he started
learning about the joys of old biplanes and the pilots who flew them.
Back in the early 1970s, my first airplane was a Luscombe, and I flew off
a strip at Clarksburg. There was a person who restored dusters there, and
they were using N3N Stearmans and
Travel Airs for dusting. I used to sit
around with those guys at the shop,
and the old duster pilots used to tell
me that a 220-hp Travel Air could
outfly a 450-hp Stearman, recollects
Joe, adding, I really wanted to get an
old biplane, and I decided I wanted a
Travel Air, because it cruises fast, flies
real well, and hauls a good load.
Finding that Travel Air would
take a few decades, though. In the
meantime, he tried college after
high school, but just didnt take to
scholastic bookwork very well. So
he obtained his A&P and CFI and
taught flying for a while. He worked
for a Piper dealer in Sacramento and
then started flying DC-3 freightersand even flew as a fish and
game warden pilot, using a Beech
18 to plant fish in the high Sierras.
In 1985, he was hired by Pacific
Southwest Airlines (PSA). Today, Joe
resides in the scenic Shenandoah
Valley in Waynesboro, Virginia. Hes
captain of an Airbus 320 and enjoys
his ongoing long-term career with
PSA (now merged with US Airways).
In 2004, his long-held dream of
owning a Travel Air became tangible.
Bit O History
Twenty-seven years before Joe
was born, a brand new Travel Air
Flight Transition
Despite his fairly extensive flying time in 2004including 3,500
hours of tailwheel timethe insurance company wanted Joe to log five
hours of time with a flight instructor
in the Travel Air in order to insure it.
It really worked out great,
shares Joe enthusiastically, elaborating, Captain Dick Doll, who
was No. 1 on the PSA seniority list,
did some of the flying on the airplane when it was first restored.
Dick started out flying in dusters
and raced P-51s at Reno, and I was
never senior enough to fly with
him on PSAso I asked him if hed
check me out. He said, Yeah, sure!
What a pleasure that was! The first
time we went out, he flew it from
the back seat and put me up front,
where theres just a stick and throttle. He said, Lets go out and makes
sure it stalls and falls through okay,
because it hadnt flown for a while.
So we flew around for 15-20 minutes, and he shot a landing with it,
and then we taxied back in. Then
he puts me in the back seat and he
gets in the frontwe flew the five
hours in two days and shot a bunch
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Making Modern-day
History
Truthfully, Joe is really a modernday barnstormer at heart. The reason is pretty simple: He derives the
most joy from flying his biplane
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Engine assembly.
Fabrication of turtledeck.
Applying Poly-Brush.
BONNIE KRATZ
The sun rises and lights up Joe Santanas Travel Air on the ight line at AAAs
y-in at Blakesburg, Iowa.
Tailfeathers in silver.
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Achtung, Baby!
Praga E.114M Air Baby
HB-UAF restored
to flying status
BY
he Thunersee, a
12,000 acre lake located in the Swiss
Berner Oberland region, dominates one
of the countrys most
stunning flying regions, dividing
fertile wetlands on its northern border and various Alpine giants to the
south in a most dramatic and eyecatching manner.
In summertime this heterogeneous airspace is crisscrossed by
Switzerlands most unique pelicanshaped vintage aircraft, made airworthy only some few months ago: a
blue/white colored Czech-built Praga
E.114M Air Baby. This 1947 Air Baby,
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. . . To Its Reincarnation
The restoration started in 2004 and
would eventually last some six years.
Its wooden framework surprisingly in
good condition, the aircraft was completely stripped down and almost
rebuilt from scratch. The original
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Praga E.114 M
General characteristics
Crew
Length
Wingspan
Wing area
Empty weight
Powerplant
Walter Mikron III four-cylinder, aircooled, inverted straight engine (65 hp)
Performance
Maximum speed
Cruise speed
Range
Service ceiling
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EXPLORING
THE
PARASOL MONOPLANE
BY
BOB WHITTIER
EAA 1235
Editors Note: The Light Plane Heritage series in EAAs Experimenter magazine often touched on aircraft and concepts
related to vintage aircraft and their history. Since many of our members have not had the opportunity to read this series, we plan on publishing those LPH articles that would be of interest to VAA members. Enjoy!HGF
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Figure 2As shown by this Albatr os of 1914, militar y men quickly r ealized their superior downwar d visibility made parasol monoplanes ideal for
reconnaissance work. Rotar y engines belched a cloud of castor oil smoke
upon being star ted.
ries by Joseph P. Juptner, and the
Aircraft Yearbooks by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. I was
quite surprised at the large number
of parasol types I found pictured
and described in these old books.
While many were obscure types, all
were interesting to study with the
question in mind, Why did the designer do what he did?
A parasol monoplane is one on
which the wing is mounted above
and more or less clear of the fuselage. The word is derived from the
Italian parare, meaning to ward
off, and sole, meaning sun. A
ladys parasol wards off the sun.
Because a wing above the fuselage
wards off the sun, the French seem
to have been the first to apply the
word parasol to airplanes. Fig. 1
shows a parasol monoplane built
by Henri Farman in 1910. He was
famous for his biplanesperhaps
he cobbled up this parasol to learn
something about the characteristics
of monoplanes. Most monoplanes
of that time had their wings attached to the top longerons of their
fuselages, so presumably the word
parasol was adopted to describe
this new arrangement.
When World War I began, airplanes were at first used only for reconnaissance flights. The thin wing
airfoils then in use obliged the use
of shallow and therefore quite flexible wing spars, so biplane and mid-
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Figure 3Ther e are many variations on the parasol theme. High-wing Lockheed V ega, lower left, was r evised to
parasol, upper left, to suit an airlines needs. Exter nally the English Comper Swift, above, looked like a high-wing
but str ucturally was a parasol. Its layout facilitated cockpit access. Small engine on long nose balanced pilots
weight aft of the wing.
facturer built military observation
and fighter planes of this type because of good visibility and simple,
sturdy construction. When twin
machine guns were mounted in fuselages, it was necessary to use interrupter mechanisms to halt their
firing when propeller blades passed
in front of the guns. Some 1920s
parasol fighters moved the guns
outboard to where struts met the
undersides of their wings. Fairings
enclosed the guns and at the same
time cleaned up the airflow where
struts met the wings. This allowed
uninterrupted and therefore more
deadly gun firing.
The more designers studied parasols, the more advantages they discovered. As originally produced,
the sleek 1927 Lockheed Vega, Fig.
3, was a high-wing cabin monoplane. Western Air Express liked
its speed but found things to complain about. The cantilever wings
deep spars intruded into cabin
Figure 4The r elationship between center of lift and center of gravity dif fers as between parasol and low-wing
monoplanes, and as between level and steep-climbing ight. This signi cantly af fects longitudinal stability .
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Figure 5Parasols can be ver y handsome, as shown by this Menascopowered Fairchild 22 of the early 1930s.
Figure 6The Ross parasol was not handsome! High-set wing and low-set
fuselage facilitated cockpit entr y and exit.
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y problem by
Figure 9Double-taper ed wing on 1929 Davis helped fr ont cockpit accessibility. Note wide, stable landing gear .
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Figure 10Smaller radial engines of 33-36 inch diameter led to wide fuselage, side-by-side seating in 1929 Inland Spor t.
estland Widgeon, ar e
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Figure 14Open Cub E-2 and F-2 (shown) could be enclosed same way. Raising the fuselage top fairing cr eated
cabin J-2 and J-3.
Figure 19One-piece wings ar e easily attached to parasols such as this Fr ench Potez 60 of the mid-1930s.
Figure 20Fr ench Bour gois fuselage had thr ee longerons; note the str ut position. Bulkheads and wood
veneer for med the covering.
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jor fittings such as lift struts and streamline wire attachment points. There are times when a shake that
begins at the end of a spar will progress outboard and
will exit the plywood doubler and form itself into a
longitudinal crack. AC43.13-1B states that most longitudinal cracks can be repaired by gluing on plywood
plates on both sides of the spar; however, to adequately
inspect the spar and glue on such plates, the wing has
to be uncovered, and most mechanics will opt to replace the entire spar or splice in a new section through
the damaged area.
This final illustration is interesting from the standpoint of visually inspecting damage. Look closely at
the photo in Illustration 7 and you will see two distinct
failure modes in wood. First, half of the thickness of
the spar has failed due to compressive forces, while the
other half has failed due to tension forces. How could
this happen, except in an accident? Well, back in 1970,
that is what happened to the pilot of a CallAir A-9 agricultural airplane. While spraying next to his house, he
decided to make a pass over the home to wave at his
wife. In a steep left turn, he put the wing into a large
tree in his front yard and tore off the outer 6 feet of the
front wing spar. He was able to fly back to his strip and
land safely, and I was called to make a repair without
removing the wing from the airplane.
Illustration 6: Typical wood defects.
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A compression failure
is defined as a break
across grain lines of
the wood caused
by very high
compressive forces . . .
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oday was a great day for this old tailwheel flight instructor. One of my students took and passed her checkride and
is now a bona fide pilot. Now, that isnt a
big deal nor different from most anyone
else receiving a pilots license. But this
one was special to me.
About 18 months ago she and her husband came
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was a very good navigator/
passenger. But on this day
she wanted to begin taking
fl ight lessons. I thought this
wasnt anything unusual;
over the years Ive worked
with a number of spouses
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the situation was a bit more
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39
3/2/12 9:15 AM
o doubt about it
Im very privileged.
I am surrounded by
good pilots. I dont
mean ones who just
know the rules and can make an
airplane take off and land to FAA
proficiency standards. I mean
ones who know how to put the
airplane exactly where they want
it. They know how to wear the
airplane, so to speak.
They didnt get that way by
chance. Theyve developed their
abilities in untold hours in the
sky. Theyve hauled passengers
and freight, ferried airplanes,
dusted crops, and flown for a myriad of other reasonsthe primary
one for the sheer joy of flight.
They know how to read weather
and arent afraid to make no-go
decisions, and Im sure theyve
all been in the I shouldnt have
S. MICHELLE SOUDER
40 MARCH 2012
3/2/12 9:16 AM
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Explorer and 2011 Edge are the sportiest and most well-equipped
vehicles yet. The look on the outside and technology on the inside
make these vehicles reliable and fun to drive - and we all know thats
important. We look forward to seeing what Ford will deliver in 2012
and beyond.
Keith C. EAA #1030084
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