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Next year's
Biplane Expo in
Bartlesville, Oklahoma,
will be the last of the
annual fly-ins that
began in 1987.
successful and well-run fly-in event
that always attracted the finest bi
planes and was truly a whole lot of
fun. Well, that settles it. The 2009
Biplane Expo is now at the top of
my list for the upcoming fly-in sea
son. Hope to see you there!
2008 was a tough year for all
of aviation, but we can Still count
the few blessings we have seen in
recent months. Gas prices have fi
nally begun to fall in my part of the
country. Although they are now
under $4 per gallon, it seems a lit
tle crazy to voice happiness about
that when I remember in the '80s
I was paying far less than half of
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FEBRUARY
CONTENTS
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News
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Mystery Plane
by H.G. Frautschy
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The Bet
And a little bit of winter preflight wisdom
by Irven F. Palmer Jr.
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FRONT COVER: The Chastain family's Rawdon T-1 is a multigenerational aircraft. The fi
nal restoration by Jack Chastain with help from his wife, MayBelle, and sons Terry and
Phil, it won the Reserve Grand Champion Classic award at EAA's fly-in in 1978. To cele
brate the 30th anniversary of that flight from St. Louis , Terry and his daughter, pilot Teri
Lee, brought the Rawdon back to Oshkosh. See the story starting on page 12. In this
photo by Don Parsons, family friend Dotty Kotik rides in the back seat, with Terry piloting
the former spray plane.
BACK COVER: February 23 marks the centennial of powered flight in Canada. This is John
Alexander Douglas McCurdy, the pilot of the Aerial Experiment Association's fourth powered
biplane, the Silver Dart, flown that historic day off the ice of Baddeck. Nova Scotia 's Bras
d'Or Lake. Photo courtesy the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York .
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looking.
Plus it had lay
ers of wires from
each different avi
onics package the air
plane had received. So, we
just took everything out,
and this is where Rich really got his
hands dirty: He rewired everything
and I replaced all the old SCAT hose
and I did my best to stay ahead of
him with the cleaning.
"I had done a couple of interior
renovations on the airplane, but
nothing as deep as we were going,
so some things still needed doing. I
should also mention that Rich is a
perfectionist. And I mean a serious
one. After a while that began to rub
off on me, so I didn't object when
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This Aeronca Champ was the Chastain family's first restoration project.
- TERRY CHASTAIN
This Fairchild PT-26 was the Chastain family's second restoration project.
Young brothers Phil and Terry Chastain with their father 's Mirage in
1951. Their father raced the Mirage at Detroit in the early 1950s against
Steve Wittman , Bill Flack, and other greats of that era.
After AirVenture 2008, the Chastains can add another "award winner"
sticker to N5160.
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THIRD GENERATION
And then there is the third gener
ation of Chastains. Phil and Betty's
sons, Mike and Rob, are both quite
naturally interested in flying. Terry
and Mary's sons, Jack and Bill, work
for NASA. Bill is a lead engineer on
the space shuttle program, and Jack
is a design engineer on the inter
national space station program.
Their baby sister, Teri Lee, soloed in
a Champ at age 26 and earned her
private in 2007 in a Cessna 140.
"I always wanted to fly, and
the opportunity came up where it
wasn't that expensive," says Teri
Lee, "so it was a perfect time!" Smil
ing brightly, with her long blonde
hair kissed by the summer sun, her
sparkling light blue eyes reveal a
quiet inner determination and con
fidence. She transitioned to the
Rawdon T-l in early 2008; to date,
she's logged more than 100 hours'
total flight time-all of which is in
tailwheel aircraft. She enjoys tak
ing friends and family up for rides,
including her girlfriends, her two
year old niece, her brothers and
mother, and even her boss.
Comparing the three airplanes,
Teri Lee smiles and says, "The
Champ's slow and pretty much flies
itself because it wants to fly. The
140 was a little squirrelly when I
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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN
1990
BY JACK
McRAE, EAA 93
Editor's Note: The Light Plane Heritage series in EAA's 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 se
ries, we plan on publishing those LPH articles that would be of interest to VAA members. Enjoy!-HGF
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References:
"Szekely Aircraft and Engine Company" by Phil Mich
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Aero Digest and Aviation magazines, 1928-1931.
Aircraft Yearbooks, 1928-1931.
Aerosphere, 1939.
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lons less fuel per hour, and, best of
all, that the engine was purring and
really seemed to like it.) In light of
those previous thoughts, it never
entered my mind that that very
same engine might have decided to
"head south."
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lulled into a sense of complacency
by those facts, as I viewed them.
The engine had appeared to be run
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titude nor the weight and balance
posed any issues. Although I had
not referred to the performance
charts that day, I was intimately
familiar with the "typical" perfor
mance of my own airplane and
knew that there shouldn't be any
problems whatsoever in clearing
the trees, which stood more than
2,500 feet from where we started
the take-off roll.
As an aside, during my recov
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to get some reading done. One of
the books I chose to reread was Fate
Is the Hunter by Ernie Gann. In that
book, he describes a similar inci
dent that happened to him in Agra,
India. It was summertime, and he
was taking off in a C-8 7, a less
than-stellar performer. He had or
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would be able to get the best perfor
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Taj Mahal, which stood just beyond
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BY H.G. FRAUTSCHY
30 FEBRUARY 2009
The Sikorsky UN-4 monoplane conversion was built to improve the safety and performance as
pects of the venerable Curtiss Jenny and similar biplanes of that era.
ur two shots of the Fowler variable-area in Aviation by Frank Delear, 20 sets of the new G-S-1
wing modification of the Curtiss Jenny wings were sold.
In that same time frame , Sikorsky and Gluhareff
reminded us that a few other designers
had built improved wings for the WWI also collaborated on a monoplane version of the Jenny
era trainer. With so many Jennys surplused out of the modification. The UN-4, designed in late 1926/early
military, it's not surprising the aircraft was chosen 1927, had a graceful strut-braced parasol wing that
for modification. Buy one cheap, replace the engine spanned 43 feet, within a foot of the original span of
or wings, and a new, more capable airplane could be the Jenny's upper wing. The wing was braced with two
had. For most of the modifications, only one thing parallel struts and a set of jury struts that picked up
prevented them: the cost. A Jenny was so inexpensive ,_ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
to buy in the early 1920s that any additional cost was
tough to justify. Buy it, use it up in your flying circus,
and when you where done, buy another one.
Still, the prospect of making the Jenny a "better
airplane" was irresistible to a few of the talented en
gineers of that time, including Igor Sikorsky and one
of his fledgling aircraft manufacturing company en
gineers, Michael Gluhareff. Michael and h is brother,
Serge, were a major part of the success of the fixed
wing aircraft designed and built by Sikorsky. In 1925,
Sikorsky, with the help of New England businessman
Arnold Dickinson, had reorganized his small aircraft
concern. The new firm, Sikorsky Manufacturing Com
pany, had Dickinson as its president and Sikorsky as
the vice preSident, a move that gave Igor Sikorsky the
freedom to pursue the design and engineering of new
and exciting aircraft.
During 1926-1928, as the company began work on
larger aircraft, Sikorsky and Michael Gluhareff became
convinced that they could design a better set of wings
for the Curtiss Jenny belonging to Roger Kahn, a local
pilot who flew from Roosevelt Field on Long Islan d,
where Sikorsky Manufacturing was based at that time.
With fewer struts, a revised airfoil, and a cleaned-up
bracing wire arrangement, the reincarnated Jenny flew
20 mph faster, stalled in a more predictable m anner,
and climbed as well with two aboard as it h ad before
modification with only the pilot flying the biplan e.
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