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What do you see at SWPC
conventions? Short Wings! And what
do convention-goers do? They look at
all the airplanes and marvel at the
grand champion! At least that’s what
John D’Amico, Mount Airy, MD.,
and Frank Sperandeo, Fayetteville,
AR, did at the 2013 convention in
Saratoga Springs, NY.
SHORT WING PIPER
NEWS
(ISSN 8750-9113)
820 E. University
Springfield, MO 65807
SHORT WING PIPER NEWS - Sept.-Oct. 2013…Convention Color Pictures
Periodicals Postage
The
News
Short
Wing
Piper
September-October 2013
An abbreviated flock of Short Wings at the 2013 convention
was led by N87NM, owned by Dale and Lisa Berger of Nazareth,
Pa. The PA-22 is making her second appearance on the cover of
The News, first appearing in March-April 2011. This time she is
here to announce her latest honor — the Bev Jewett Memorial
Grand Champion Award from the convention held July 1-5 in
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She also won the 2011 Bronze Lindy in
the contemporary class 1 for single engines, 0-160 hp. at
Oshkosh in 2011. You can see another photo of the winner inside
in the color section and yet another with a few more details in
another story. Her restoration was told in the 2011 story.
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Photos and stories from the 2013 convention and an
overview of the 2014 convention — good times planned!
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THE SHORT WING PIPER NEWS
The Voice of the Short Wing Piper
September-October 2013 - Vol. 35: No. 5
President: Connie Stevens
PO Box 226
Homewood, CA 96141-0226
530-525-5273
[email protected]
Vice President:
To be appointed to fill unexpired term
Treasurer: Kaaren McGlynn
633 Stearman St.
Independence, OR 97351-9412
541-726-4088
[email protected]
Secretary: Art Weisberger
3616 Blackbird Dr.
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
520-459-3768
E-Mail: [email protected]
AT LARGE MEMBERS, EXECUTIVE BOARD
Fred Mayes, 236 Farmers Lane, Lebanon, MO 65536-3725, 417532-4445, cell 417-531-1278, email [email protected]
Andy Seligson, 331 Westchester Ave., Yonkers, NY 10707-1657,
914-337-2968, 914-522-3341 (cell), Email [email protected]
See list of staff members on next page
Send large photo files through
https://www.yousendit.com/dropbox?dropbox=
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STAFF MEMBERS
Editor/Advertising/Production/Membership Services, Eleanor Mills, P.O.
Box 10822, Springfield, MO 65808, 417-883-1457; E-Mail, [email protected]
NEW Website Content Manager, Myrna CG Mibus, 4391Canton Court,
Webster, MN 55088, 612-532-3827, email [email protected]
NEW Chapter Coordinator, Adolph Svec, 19009 River Rd, Marengo, IL
60152-8500, 815-568-6652, email [email protected]
Panel of Technical Advisors: Tom Anderson, 5401 Crooked Tree Dr.,
Mason, OH 45040, 513-398-2656, E-Mail [email protected]; Chuck
Morris, 959 J Highway, Peculiar, MO 60478, 816-779-5504, E-Mail [email protected]; Ralph Gutowski, 8 Ives Woods Drive, Oxford, Ohio 45056,
513-523-2647, E-Mail [email protected]; Ralph Widman, Box 573,
Lynchburg, OH 45142, 937-364-6050, E-Mail, [email protected]; Doug
Arpke, 3502 199th Pl. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-9109, 425-776-8033, E-Mail
[email protected]
Librarians/Tool Acquisitions, Terry and Claire Karlson, 40490 Lovettsville
Rd., Lovettsville, VA 20180, 540-822-5954. E-mail [email protected]
Education Foundation Director, Larry Jenkins, 4160 Green Hill Dr.,
Hernando, Miss. 38632, 901-212-2849 (cell), email [email protected]
Historian, Jan Widman, Box 573, Lynchburg, OH 45142, 937-364-6050, Email, [email protected]
Short Wing Web Store, Larry Jenkins manager (see info above) - Now
on the club website! CD’s and more!
Chapter Presidents, pages 107-109
Check out the club’s BRAND
NEW website and the
club webstore!
www.shortwingpiperclub.org
Vol. 35, No. 5 The Short Wing Piper News (ISSN 8750-9113) (USPS 738-590)
is published bimonthly by the Short Wing Piper Club, Inc., 820 E. University,
Springfield, Mo. 65807, with additional entry at Halstead, KS 67056. Annual membership dues are $40 for U.S. members ($33 of which is subscription price) and
$50 for overseas members ($40 of which is subscription price, including airmail
postage), all in U.S. currency. Periodicals postage paid at Springfield MO 65808
and additional entry.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Short Wing Piper News, P.O.
Box 10822, Springfield, MO 65808-0822.
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Table of Contents
September-October, 2013
President’s Report: A Short Wing Piper’s annual
inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Who’s new? 5-21 through 7-20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
A note to new members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
2014 Convention: A West Coast advenure for Short
Wing Pipers, June 22-27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
2013 Convention -Words and pictures to tell the story
Club business conducted at the convention, beginning
with the Executive Committee meeting . . . . . . .7
Annual business meeting held . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Who was there and where did they come from? . . .14
Two long-serving members selected for SWPC
Honor Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Election results give the club new leadership for
2013-2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Aircraft awards as usual a highlight of the closing
banquet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Pictures from convention activities . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
2013 airplane convention extravaganza (or how we
spent our summer vacation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
The 2013 Convention in Color: Award-winning
Short Wings lead the parade! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Other aircraft at the convention --- not award winners
this time but worthy of admiration anyway! . . .33
Convention attendees enjoyed a variety of activities,
including just visiting! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Membership report: More news from the mail bag . . . .51
SWPC Website How-To
How to log in to the SWPC Website . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Letter to the members from Peter Lubig, outgoing
president . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Four members awarded prizes in the SWMIP drawing .64
Website update
Waste of time? Or worth it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Connie Stevens
Eleanor Mills
SMX 2014 Crew
Eleanor Mills
Eleanor Mills
Andy Seligson
Eleanor Mills
Jack Madden
Eleanor Mills
Myrna Mibus
Myrna Mibus
The Short Wing Piper News is intended as a public forum concerning
the maintenance, modification and operation of the aircraft that are the subject of the Short Wing Piper Club, Inc. In the interest of encouraging presentation and discussion of ideas concerning these aircraft, opinions of the
readers of this publication are solicited for this forum. The Short Wing
Piper Club, Inc., makes no judgment concerning any idea or opinion
expressed in the Short Wing Piper News. The owner or operator of any aircraft should not attempt any alteration of or modification to, or departure
from, approved maintenance or operating procedures for that aircraft without first obtaining the written approval of qualified maintenance personnel
or the FAA.
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Club library has many tools to loan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Claire Karlson
SWP Education Foundation Activities
Scholarship students awarded $2000 each . . . . . . .67
Larry Jenkins
Proficient Pilot: Back again! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Lynn Jensen
From your Chapter Coordinator
I can’t do this! (and Short Wing Pete) . . . . . . . . . . .70
Adolph Svec
Regional Chapter Reports
Editor’s note to all chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Thames/Cochran
Columbia River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Brian McGlynn
Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Iris Morris
Longhorn (Texas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Ellie Block
Mid-America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Miller & Mayes
North Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Myrna Mibus
Northeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Andy Seligson
Ohio Buckeye (and technical material) . . . . . . . . . .88
Ralph Gutowski
Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Tom Gifford
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Tom Brent
Another look at our 2013 Grand Champion . . . . . . . . . .97
Technical Corner: Short Wing tire maintenance . . . . . . .98
Frank Sperandeo
No Saratoga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Daniel Cathey
New issue deadline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Regional Chapters/Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Classified ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110-114
Membership Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Index to advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Gift membership form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
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electronic copy.
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President’s Report
A Short Wing
Piper’s annual
inspection
By Connie Stevens
Each year Short Wing Pipers gather together at the
Family Reunion, our Annual Inspection. While the location
varies, the reunion content is relatively stable. This year, Saratoga
Springs, NY, held true to the expected agenda. Family, Fun,
Friendship, Flying, financial discussions and decisions were all part
of the Family Inspection of our collective Short Wing Piper.
We learned at the Annual Board of Director’s Meeting that we are
in financial distress. According to the 2012 Club Treasurer’s Report
released on July 2, 2013, regarding the last seven years of financial
losses, “… the annual losses are eroding the club’s liquid assets and
eventually the club will find itself out of money.” In video discussion
with the Treasurer, it was mentioned that our Club has less than
seven years remaining in investments to supplement current spending if the losses continue.
So, the SWPC engine’s diminishing compression ratio check has
our attention. Is it still within limits? Possibly. It all depends upon
the surrounding climate. Since engine temperature contributes to
compression ratio results and this engine is not even close to the
green arc, my guess is that the Club needs to start this engine,
warm it up to the green arc and run the compression ratio check
again, over the next few months. Then, we can get an accurate read
on the decisions that should follow. This is serious family business
and must begin with a firm resolve to get our Annual completed and
keep flying - safely, legally and within our personal financial limits.
The overall airframe is in great condition. On the surface we can
see that the paint is solid. Thanks go to the previous administration
and the new Website’s reception and results. We can also see
beneath the new paint in the punch test that the fabric is holding.
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Our tube inspection points appear to be solid without visible rust or
standing moisture. Our gear is firm and stable for those unexpected
crosswinds as are our tires with lots of available tread. The brakes
are wearing a bit. Yet, they still have about another year on them
before replacement considerations.
Everything else checks out including the control surfaces, pulleys,
wires, horns, forks, bungees and struts —- all are good to go. We just
have to keep a clear eye on the engine’s cylinders.
Since there are no numbers available about 2013 Club spending
nor is there currently a Board-approved budget, it is difficult to be
confident that the Treasurer’s 2012 alert is the only problem enroute
to 2014. At this year’s end, we may end up with a ferry permit to get
us to the repair station instead of our desired flight clearance. And it
is premature to present unknown issues or come to any solutions
without all of the facts and data needed for a reasonable discussion.
And so, we wait.
What is it that we need from our Club? Your patience is requested
as our leadership reduces the risk of having a Top Overhaul with
significant changes or worse, a Major Overhaul of Club financial
controls that will change our world as we know it. To reduce spending along with services while increasing dues that will likely reduce
membership further is not our Board’s resolve. We recognize that all
families have differences, disagreements, strengths and weaknesses.
Yet, when we have to pull together to move forward, we do just that;
pull together and get the job done. We are all Short Wings in our
own way and have the ability to land in the most interesting of conditions. We are all volunteers doing the best we possibly can to support our Club. Now is the time to get those other Short Wings out
there into our Family. If your Chapter has members who have not
yet joined SWPC, Inc., please, offer them ½ off for the first year’s
dues or better yet, how about a gift membership?
It is with this conviction that the following additional services will
be discussed at the August Board of Directors’ Meeting with possible
action and may become available to our membership on or before
January 1, 2014:
1. SWPC President’s Counsel: Past SWPC Presidents
are requested to continue their service to our Club. This
Counsel will meet via Internet and/or telephone and at the
Annual Reunion in Santa Maria in 2014 for a full review and
recommendations resulting from their activities. The
Counsel Chair will assist the current President and Board of
Directors with decisions and actions to increase membership
and income, SWPC policies, general concerns, issues, membership needs, and anything else that may need assistance
with perspective, past, and current experience. This Counsel
of Presidents will have a one-year trial period with the
option to continue if it is mutually agreeable. (No cost)
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2. SWPC Hotline: Safety Hotline online and with an
800# phone line access for safety alerts including accident
and incident reporting to our Technical Advisors for evaluation and timely reporting to the membership. Following a
one-year test, utilization will be determined along with continuation. (Minimal cost increase TBD)
3. A Homesite for SWPC History and
Memorabilia: Currently, the Piper Museum is the SWPC
site for our history. The intent is to expand our space availability and develop information for Club membership and the
public to visit, participate and not forget our origins and
those who have ‘gone west’. (Possible cost increase TBD)
4. Reintroduce ‘Letters to the Editor’ into the
News: where membership and others can communicate with
Club leadership and staff directly. (Minimal cost increase.
Depending upon participation TBD)
5. Type Club Coalition Participation: EAA is leading
the safety effort for general aviation Type Clubs and the current Chairman has agreed to include SWPC in this adventure. (Currently no cost increase)
6. Introduce an e-mail contact urgent request:
This is for ALL members including a neighbor or family
member for those without e-mail access. This will allow
immediate E-Brief information transfer to be sent out
directly to SWPC members regarding safety of flight issues,
accident and incident reports. (Minimal cost increase for set
up and maintenance TBD)
7. Implement Immediately the current
President’s approved request to the former Board:
Bring new and returning members into the Club for ½ off
SWPC dues with receipt of the News exclusively from the
SWPC Website. (No cost increase)
8. SWPC Membership List: Include all partners in our
membership count for increased accuracy. (No cost increase)
9. The Forum and Facebook Activity Suspensions:
The 2013 SWPC Board Forum brief determined a continued
lack of participation and interest. (Cost Savings TBD)
10. Recommended Monthly Board-Approved
Reporting by Club Treasurer and Secretary:
Summary Information to be posted on Website and in next
available News issue. (Minimal cost TBD)
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Short Wingers have a generous ability to open the aircraft door
and invite others for a ride. Further, our history provides an attitude
that harbors an amazing ability to reach out and help others to complete their projects. Sharing while playing well with others is a good
family trait. This may be the best time to reach out and begin
again.
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: 1981-2013
It was not long ago when the Tri-Pacer Owners’ Club, Inc. began
publishing the Short Wing Piper News’ bi-monthly predecessor. The
October-November 1981 issue found its way to an expanded group
forming long-lasting friendships. Change had begun with a common
interest and the need for growth and development as other interested Short Wing Piper Owners made themselves known to founder and
first President, Bob Fuller.
Bob introduced and edited the monthly Newsletter initially, then
handed it off to Ed Wach, allowing Bob to take this Club to its
newest adventure: from Tri-Pacer Owners’ Club, Inc., to a combined
group of Short Wing Pipers. Hence, Short Wing Piper Club, Inc.,
arrived.
John McGee (PA22-108) from New Hope, AL , T-POC Member #544
noted in his 1981 Letter to President Bob: “I suggest that you charge
us $1.00 each for (the) letter, hire a competent person to help you,
and issue them every two months.” That was sound advice then and
it certainly applies today. T-POC needed financial solvency, competent help, and a reasonable communication schedule. They were taking care of business.
The more ‘things’ change, the more they stay the same.
Questions? Comments?
Ideas?
Send an email to the club’s board:
[email protected]
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Who’s new? 5-21 through 7-20
The 26 new members this period
include some far-flung ones and at
least one couple we certainly would
expect to see at the 2014 convention in
Santa Maria. New members are:
Jim and Karen Bull, Santa Maria,
Calif. (Both are members, with Karen
a spousal member.)
Chris
Cauwood,
Stamford,
Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Bill Chandler, Green Mountain,
N.C.
Steve Curcio, Racine, Wisc.
Martha
(Matty)
Dalrymple,
Downingtown, Pa.
Scott De Bel, Petaluma, Calif.
Michael and Julia Douglas, Holt,
Mo. (Also both members, with Julia a
spousal member.)
Tom Edmondson and Lynn Alan
Peterson, Kansas City, Mo. (Both are
members, with Lynn a partner member.)
Zach Evans, Daphne, Ala.
Rickey Gilmer, Pell City, Ala.
Richard Horlings, Newmarket,
Ontario, Canada
Tom Kownacki, El Paso, Ill.
Wayne Mansfield, West Boxford,
Mass.
Richard Minatre, Vacaville, Calif.
Carlos
Alejandro
Retamosa,
Mercedes, Uruguay, and his partner,
Carlos Taran, Treinta y Tres, Uruguay
Dan Sumrall, Merritt Island, Fla.
Connie Tibbitts, Marble Canyon,
Ariz.
Greg Toste, Newcastle, Calif.
Scott Uding, St. Louis Park, Minn.
Sidney VanValkenburgh, Madras,
Ore.
Henk Verwaard, Cape Town, W.C.,
South Africa
Craig Williams, Martinsburg, W.V.
So, I’d have to say that the
California with five members (counting the spousal membership) and the
non-US/non-Canada new members
(with four, counting the partner membership) outdid the rest. Other than
that, two from Alabama and three
(including a partner membership) from
Missouri were the only duplicate states
listed.
A note to new SWPC members:
Welcome to the Club!
Please make yourselves known to the other members by your
participation --- come to the convention in Santa Maria, Calif.,
in 2014; identify yourselves there as First Timers and join in
the fun! Join the local chapter nearest you and attend the flyins. Send in photos and stories to the SWPN --- we’d like to see
your Short Wing and hear about you! Participate in the forums
on the website or join in the comments and questions on our
Facebook page --- questions get answered and there’s always
someone to hear you and help you!
It’s your club now - You can make it better
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June 22-27, 2014
By SMX 2014 Co-Directors Lou
Reinkens, Joe Cronan, & Connie
Stevens
Sunday’s
setup
includes
Registration, Airport Greetings, and
Young Eagle Flights by SWPs, Vendor
Presentation (TBD), and President’s
Reception. Remember: the first ten
Short Wing Piper arrivals will be listed
for Clyde’s Hands-on Rigging Review
on Wednesday.
Monday opens with New Arrivals,
Continued Registration, Airport
Greetings, Tarmac “Show and Tell,”
Club Committee Meetings, SWPEF
and SWPC, Inc. Meetings, Vendor
Jeppesen’s Presentation featuring an IPad Workshop, Traditional Meet and
Greet BBQ at the Museum of Flight
followed by a showing of the Disney
Movie,” Rocketeer.”
Tuesday’s sunrise features our
Tarmac “Show and Tell,” another
Vendor Presentation (TBD), and the
first Technical Forum featuring our
Technical Panel’s Open Hangar Talk
format. Our customary Membership
Luncheon Speaker (TBD) addresses
Medical Issues and the Light Sport
Aircraft Ticket. Following Lunch is
our Annual Membership Meeting.
Club Election Business for Club VicePresident and Treasurer will be
reviewed along with other Club
Business. The afternoon Flyout and
Tour will be conducted concurrently.
Fly out to Santa Paula or take our bus
tour to Pismo Beach and meet Pelli.
You may prefer Shopping and an Early
Dinner in Pismo Beach. Oh, so many
decisions. Another locally made
movie, “Wright Brothers’ Miracle,”
will be the evening feature at the
Museum of Flight.
Wednesday’s first adventure is on
the Tarmac with “Show and Tell,” followed by the second Technical
Seminar featuring Clyde Smith, Jr.
He
will
(www.cubdoctor.com).
describe and show you on the Tarmac
how to “Rig Your Aircraft” beginning
with the first ten Convention arrivals.
Volunteers accepted!! Following
Clyde is Recreational Aviation
Foundation President, John McKenna
(www.theraf.org). Learn what is being
done to preserve airports on public
lands (BLM, USFS). A second bus
tour will be to the Danish Community
of Solvang while the Poker Run is
being flown. Our BOD Strawberry
Reception greets your return. The
Santa Maria Tri-Tip BBQ even held
President Reagan’s appreciation. Oh,
so many Restaurants for you to enjoy.
The Santa Maria Museum of Flight’s
final presentation, The Wright Glider
(http://www.woodworking.org/InfoEx
change/viewtopic.php?t=28952&sid=
dd9a3706a0f48fe9c2ccea4e96905380)
, will close the evening with John
Redding.
Thursday, following a Buffet
Breakfast, will be Technical Seminar 3
by Mike Busch, a professional aviation
writer (www.savvyaviator.com/). Mike
presents a hands-on ‘Adjusting
Magnetos’ opportunity. After that,
another Vendor lecture/demo will be
presented (TBD), followed by a short
Flyout over San Luis Obispo terrain
before our featured tour of Vandenberg
AFB, Launch Complexes and
Museum. We return just in time for
the grand finale, our Annual Banquet
where our Election Results will be
announced along with Award
Recipients. Our guest speaker is Brian
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Shul, Sled Driver, who is sponsored by
Jeppesen. More on Brian and Sleddriving can be seen at www.sleddriver.com. It’s the 50th anniversary of the
Sled in 2014 and SWPC celebrates 35
years.
Friday will be a buffet breakfast
with Vendors, Convention Debrief,
Survey Results, and Handoff to 2015
Branson MO Hosts. What comes next
is up to you.
2013
Convention
Saratoga
Springs, N.Y.
July 1-5
Words and pictures to
tell the story
Club business conducted
at the convention, beginning with the Executive
Committee meeting
By Eleanor Mills
As usual at the club’s annual convention, in addition to the fun, visiting,
entertainment, and excursions, a great
deal of business was conducted at the
two business meetings. Members of
the executive board met on Monday
afternoon, before the Meet and Greet
which welcomed all who were able to
attend.
Present for the meeting were voting
members club president Peter Lubig,
club secretary Art Weisberger, members at large Fred Mayes, Mark Ohlau,
and Andy Seligson, and ex officio
member Larry Jenkins (director of the
SWPC Education Foundation). Staff
members present were Adolph Svec,
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Seated at the table for the club’s executive board meeting are
(clockwise around the table from top left) Fred Mayes, Andy
Seligson, Larry Jenkins, Art Weisberger, Peter Lubig, Mark Ohlau,
and Adolph Svec.
chapter coordinator, and Eleanor
Mills, editor and membership services.
In the audience were Frank Sperandeo,
Connie Stevens, Lou Reinkens, John
D’Amico, Sid Brain, Cliff and Carole
Van Vleet, and Rico Cannone.
Not able to attend the convention
were Kaaren McGlynn, club treasurer,
Kurt Selbert, club vice president, John
Kobbeman, at large member of the
board, Myrna Mibus, website content
manager, and Claire Karlson, club
librarian. An attempt was made to
include the two officers via electronic
media, which was not too successful.
Kurt said afterwards that he could hear
just fine, but couldn’t make himself
heard. Kaaren spoke briefly.
Business conducted at the executive
committee meeting was the following:
Five scholarships awarded
Members of the club’s executive
board, having examined and discussed
SWPC Education Foundation director
Larry Jenkin’s recommendations,
voted to provide five scholarship
applicants with $2,000 scholarships
for the 2013-14 school year.
Three of the scholarship winners are
renewal applicants. Michael Davis is a
senior who expects to graduate in
December of this year from the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Michael, who goes by the name of
Duke, will receive a Bachelor of
Business Administration degree in
logistics. Tyler Densford is a sophomore at Delta State University,
Cleveland, Miss., enrolled in the bachelor degree program of flight operations. Timothy Cuff is a senior at
Central Washington University, Moses
Lake Campus, Ellensburg, Wash., pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in
aviation, professional pilot specialization.
The other two scholarship students
are first time applicants. Cody Marks
is a junior at Lewis University,
Romeoville, Ill., working on a major in
aviation maintenance management
with a flight minor. Jeff Hopson will
be a freshman at Georgian College,
Barrie, Ontario, majoring in aviation
management.
All five of the scholarship students
have been awarded a free year’s membership in the club. (Jeff Hopson has
been a member of the Short Wing
Piper Club since April of last year and
has even served as a sponsor of one of
the club’s new members in the Short
Wing Membership Improvement
Program.)
Financial Reports given
Treasurer Kaaren McGlynn had sent
financial reports to the board, which
will be reprinted in the next issue.
Major points included investments
made of club funds and the continuing
deficit the club is running, with a loss
of $10,448 during the 2013 year.
Kaaren’s financial analyses included
the fact that each issue of the Short
Wing Piper News costs an average of
$4,918 to print and mail. The magazine is the major expense of the club.
Her analysis included three options
to stem the loss:
Publish the magazine online only
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(which would save most of the cost of
printing and mailing but would penalize those members who prefer to read
the magazine in book form.
Change the publication frequency
from bi-monthly to quarterly (coming
out four times a year rather than six).
This would save approximately the
amount of this year’s deficit but would
be a reduction in membership benefits.
Raise the dues the members pay.
No action was taken.
Discussion held on several matters
Other matters discussed at the meeting included a report by chapter coordinator Adolph Svec. Calling himself
the interim coordinator, Adolph reported that there are 22 contact people for
chapters. Active chapter membership
is 25 percent of current club membership. He has received 15 chapter
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reports.
Fred Mayes reported that the club
has invested idle funds but that was
done only a month and a half ago, so
there is not much to report. He cited
the help of club member and former
board member Dave Hedditch in
investing the funds. The funds were
invested through Edward Jones, and
Dave used to be an Edward Jones
agent.
The bylaws amendments were discussed, with Mark Ohlau, who was in
charge of formulating the amendments, saying he was just waiting for
the vote at the membership meeting.
Speaking from the audience, Sid
Brain, club member from Harrison,
Arkansas, said he found it very disappointing not to have the original
bylaws printed along with the amendments so that members could tell
exactly what it was they are voting for.
He cited especially Article 5
Paragraph 6, which he called crucial,
since the amendment omitted the need
for a quorum for matters entitled to a
vote. (The major amendments to the
bylaws were designed to allow electronic voting.)
Also speaking from the audience
were Cliff Van Vleet, Lou Reinkens,
and Connie Stevens. Cliff talked about
the Piper Museum, saying that the club
needs to have a specific liaison with
the museum. Phil Hoy is to be asked to
serve as the liaison. Cliff also noted
that the Hall of Honor display needs to
be updated, since 2010 is the last honoree listed and there is only one more
empty spot. The museum has offered
to provide another plaque but will need
information so that names can be
engraved. Also, the museum has two
copies of all the issues of SWPN published so they can fill holes in the
archived editions being housed by
Fred Mayes. The museum is also housing hard copies of all the drawings on
the club’s drawing CD, copies which
belong to the club. Peter Lubig has
some additional drawings which he
will get to Ralph Gutowski to compare
with the drawings already on the CD.
Cliff also noted that all of the club’s
displays at the museum are aging, with
the list of chapters dating back to
2003. “It all needs updating,” Cliff
concluded.
Lou Reinkens talked about the Santa
Maria convention, approved two years
ago as the 2014 convention. He proposed that the club offer a special promotion of membership at a reduced
rate for those who sign up at the door
or soon after the convention, perhaps a
50 percent or 25 percent discount.
Connie Stevens spoke of the need
for splitting the boards of the club and
the Education Foundation, a proposal
she made at last year’s convention.
That would provide more money, she
said, if the Foundation gets members
from corporate America. She stressed
that marketing is essential for growth.
Connie also urged that the board
should table the bylaws vote. Sid
agreed that the vote should be tabled.
Cliff added that it could be debated at
the membership meeting.
You too can make your voice
heard by the board and the club in
general. There’s a dedicated email
address to send questions or comments directly to the board members:[email protected]
m. The executive committee meeting and the general business meeting are open to members at the convention, as shown in the story
above. Email addresses and telephone numbers for board members
and staff are listed in the front of
each SWPN. Your voice is important to the club: use it!
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when you need a part or a service.
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Annual business meeting held
By Eleanor Mills
The annual Membership Business
Meeting, which usually follows the
convention’s membership luncheon,
provides a chance for the membership
present to propose and act on business
before the club. Matters that came up
at this year’s meeting, held on
Tuesday, included four items that
needed votes —- approval of the at
large members of the executive board
(John Kobbeman, Fred Mayes, Mark
Ohlau, and Andy Seligson), the
bylaws amendments, the election of
the president of the club, and the selection of a site for the 2015 convention.
The first item, approval of the at
large members, was done with a show
of hands and no dissenting votes.
The bylaws amendments brought
the most discussion, with Sid Brain
reiterating his objections to the way
the amendments were presented in the
Short Wing Piper News (without
reprinting the present bylaws) and
specifically Article 5 Section 6, for the
amendment’s omission of the need for
a quorum.
For the presidential election, incumbent Peter Lubig and challenger
Connie Stevens were each allotted
three minutes to present to the members why they should be elected.
Connie stressed that she was not running against Peter, saying instead that
she was running with Peter, adding
that competition is always good. She
said she is a business person and if
elected would plan to take care of business. “I am a focused person,” she
said. She promised transparency in
club business, mentioning the monthly
meetings the executive board has been
having via telephone and video conferencing. “The membership needs to be
informed,” she said, noting that the
SWPN is the club’s chief vehicle of
information.
Peter noted that he began his aviation training as soon as he got out of
high school in 1975. He is a proud
owner of a Pacer. The meetings are
announced both on the website ad in
the forums, he said.
Both the bylaws amendments and
the election of the president were taken
seriously by those present, with almost
50 additional ballots for each being
used during the meeting, in addition to
those that were mailed in to secretary
Art Weisberger. Two spousal memberships were paid on the spot to allow
those members to vote. Art asked for
volunteers to help count the votes and
selected from a show of hands Marny
Prillwitz, John D’Amico, and Barb
Pierce. As is customary, the election
results were withheld until close to the
end of the closing banquet on
Thursday night.
Connie led the way in presenting the
coming conventions, giving a video
presentation of things planned at the
2014 convention in Santa Maria,
Calif., (already approved by the club).
The convention will be June 22
through 27. Some of the features of the
convention are the movie Rocketeer,
which was filmed in Santa Maria, a
flyout to Santa Paula to the Aviation
Museum there, with a bus tour planned
for the same day to the Pismo Beach
Pier, a Clyde Smith rigging workshop,
a poker run starting from Santa
Monica, with landings at Oceana (with
the strip right next to the beach),
Lompoc, Santa Inez, and back to SMX
at Santa Monica, a bus tour to Solvang
and the missions, a flyout to the local
area, including San Luis Obispo, a ten-
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tative tour to Vandenberg AFB, and
departures on Friday. Meetings and
luncheons and the closing banquet
were also included on the schedule,
which was printed in the July-August
SWPN.
Eleanor Mills presented an oral
overview of what the Mid-America
Chapter has in mind for the 2015 convention in Branson, Mo., foregoing a
video presentation because of time
constraints. A written version of the
planning was available on the tables
for members. Branson features mentioned included Silver Dollar City, the
theme park with Ozark history and
crafts; a city packed with theaters presenting nationally known singers and
performers with all shows billed as
“family friendly”; a hotel with all the
amenities needed for a convention; the
College of the Ozarks’ Keeter Center
with an ice cream parlor and a gift
shop both featuring all items made by
the students, and a room specially
designed for the club’s membership
luncheon and business meeting, and
the Downtown Airport, whose manager is a member of the club, and which
offers plenty of space for vendors,
technical seminars, and other meetings, and is also home to an
Avis/Budget rental.
The membership approved the 2015
convention in Branson.
In other action at the meeting:
Peter outlined the accomplishments
of the club during the last two years,
mentioning the free gifts, the new
website, the forums, the FTP site set
up for sending higher resolution pictures to the SWPN, an increased club
attendance at Sun ‘n Fun and Oshkosh,
and a Facebook page.
It was announced that no Best
Chapter Award would be presented
this year. The board will set up guidelines to help select chapters to be honored, looking for input from the chap-
Clyde Smith, Jr., also known
as The Cub Doctor, gave the
group
a
heads-up
on
Sentimental Journey’s plans for
2014.
ters.
The displays at the Piper Museum in
Lock Haven will be updated.
It was announced that at a meeting
on June 10, the board voted to transfer
money from CD’s into Edward Jones’
funds. Fred Mayes, Dave Hedditch,
and Cliff Van Vleet were the committee working to accomplish that investment.
Larry Jenkins announced the winners of the five scholarships to be
given this year. Larry also said the club
store (which provides funds for the
scholarships in addition to donations
from members) will have Troy Hamon
books at a discount price and will be
featuring other items.
Clyde Smith, Jr., spoke to the gathering, noting that the Short Wings will
be the focus of next year’s Sentimental
Journey.
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Who was there and where
did they come from?
Convention director Andy Seligson
supplied the following list of 116 convention attendees:
Jerry and Kay Isbell, Ohio
Cliff and Carole Van Vleet, Arizona
Lonnie McLaughlin, New York
Keith and Patricia Flint, New York
Bill and Joanne Thomas, North
Carolina
Larry and Mary Huntley, New York
Gilbert and Barbara Pierce,
Tennessee
Rico Cannone and Dale Prividera,
New York
George and Tyke Klitsch, Florida
Iris Morris, Florida
Bob Fuller and Nancy Stutzman,
North Carolina
Jim and Donna Lambert, Colorado
Art Weisberger and Judy Rudd,
Arizona
Paul and Michele Wolff, Wisconsin
David and Pat Adams, New
Hampshire
Owen, Myrna, Rose and Ryan
Mibus, Minnesota
Michael Shaw, Ontario
Sid and Sue Brain, Arkansas
Dave Harmon, New Jersey
George Frederick, New Jersey
Bill and Teresa Lynch, Missouri
Susan Jewett, Ontario
Ralph Gutowski, Ohio
Jim
and
Elaine
Freeman,
Pennsylvania
Ken and Verla Stump, Arkansas
Paul and Heather Gagnon, Ontario
Ron and Rebecca Demmler,
Maryland
Peter and Julie Jeffs, Oregon
Tom and Amber McKernan, New
York
Steve McKeon and somebody else,
New York
Dale Berger and Lisa Finley,
Pennsylvania
Henry Plant, Georgia
Herbert Allen, Georgia
Fabio Schulthess, Vermont
Tom Anderson, Ohio
Butch and Marny Prillwitz,
Wisconsin
Jennifer Keough-Martel, Ontario
Barb Miller, Montana
Jack and Sandy Madden, Florida
Lou Reinkens and Connie Stevens,
California
Ron and Margaret Stokes, Ontario
Fred and Sandy Defilippis, New
York
Phil Hoy, Connecticut
Allan and Sylvia Bowman, Ontario
Stan and Amy Smith, New
Hampshire
Bob Harrington, Michigan
Dave Schmelzer, Michigan
Peter Lubig and Bonnie Calwell,
Ontario
Walt and Jane Buskey and Jason
Dalton, New Hampshire
Larry Jenkins, Mississippi
Frank Sperandeo, Arkansas
Andy Seligson and Gloria Fields,
New York
Mark Ohlau, California
Allen and Carol Deyoe, Illinois
Eleanor Mills, Missouri
Mike and Margaret Archambault,
New York
Basil Dobush, New York
Tom Fortin, New York
Frank Shaw, New York
Adolph Svec and Myrna Akins,
Illinois
James Hurd, New York
Patrick Morris, New York
Kevin, Michelle, Zachary and Jacob
Weidner, Illinois
Troy Hamon, Alaska
Ted and Sarah Fields, Oklahoma
John D’Amico, Maryland
Fred Mayes, Missouri
Clyde Smith, Jr., Pennsylvania
Ed and Elaine Shancey, Connecticut
John Watkins, Connecticut
Melissa Schipul, Connecticut
Of the 34 members who planned to
fly their aircraft, only 15 managed to
overcome the weather and actually fly
in. Aircraft coming in were Tom and
Amber McKernan in N5883Z, Barb
Miller in N8138D, Jack and Sandy
Madden in N8879C, Andy Seligson
and Gloria Field in N8500D, Dale
Berger and Lisa Finley in N87NM, Sid
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and Sue Brain in N8457D, Bill and
Teresa Lynch in N7152D, Steve
McKeon and somebody else in
NX49SM, Gilbert and Barb Pierce in
N5834H, Larry Jenkins in N5380H,
Paul and Heather Gagnon in CF-GAG,
Jim and Donna Lambert in N6331C,
Keith and Patricia Flint in N50KF,
Melissa Schipul in N5833H, and
Kevin, Michelle, Zach and Jacob
Weidner in N13GP (who came in flying IFR). They were welcomed by
Rico Cannone, whose N3462Z is
based at Saratoga Springs.
Of the 16 there, 13 were Short
Wings, with the Lamberts arriving in a
Warrior, and the Weidners in a twin
Piper, and then there was Steve
McKeon’s experimental, which looked
a lot like a Short Wing.
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Two long-serving members
selected for SWPC Honor Roll
The 2013 inductees for the SWPC Hall of Honor, George and
Florence (Tyke) Klitsch
The club awarded a framed certificate to George and Florence (better
known as Tyke) Klitch, Valrico, Fla.,
in honor of their inclusion in the
SWPC Hall of Honor. President Peter
Lubig presented the certificate to
George and Tyke at the banquet
Thursday evening.
Those who fly in and camp at Sun ‘n
Fun probably meet George —- or at
least one of his crew —- since he is in
charge of the aircraft camping area.
And for many of our members, Tyke
—- or one of her crew —- is their
introduction to the Short Wing Piper
Club, since she faithfully mans the
club’s booth in the type club tent,
handing out Short Wing Piper News
magazines and brochures, answering
questions about the club, and sometimes signing up new members or taking renewals.
In addition, George has been the
long-time president of the Florida
Chapter.
The nomination for the honor came
from a current Honor Roll member and
another long-serving member of the
Florida Chapter and the Sun ‘n Fun
crew, Iris Morris. Her nomination
reads:
I would like to nominate George
and Florence (Tyke) Klitsch to the
Honor Roll.
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In the early ‘80’s, George got his
license and their first plane, a Colt,
which George out-fitted for IFR flight.
It was one of the first small IFR
planes in the area. They flew it
between New Jersey and the Florida
Keys. The next was a Triple-tail
Bellanca that he rebuilt from a basket
case; next was a Bellanca Viking,
which Tyke dearly loved, and then a
Mooney and finally back to the “real”
planes. a 1959 Tri-Pacer, which they
still have.
About this time, they became
involved with Sun ‘n Fun and joined
the SWPC. Billy and Adair Henderson
and Iris Morris, all Tri-Pacer owners
and SWPC members, asked George to
volunteer in Aircraft Camping, where
Adair was chairman and Iris co-chairman. By this time, there were several
SWPC members volunteering with
them.
The following year, George was
asked to take over the duties of
Chairman, which he has done ever
since and has just ‘signed on’ for
another year.
With most of our volunteers being
Club members, when A/C Camping got
a mobile home converted to a working
building, Sun ‘n Fun named it “The
Short Wing Piper Building.”
Back in the “Early Days,” Sun ‘n
Fun had a small tent for Type Clubs,
and the Florida Chapter asked to set
up a booth. This is when Florence
(Tyke) found “Her Place.” She sets it
up, finds and schedules volunteers and
has made it a place for members and
others to meet, get information, pay
their dues, post buy and sell items, etc.
National members come here to meet
up with friends, pay their dues, or sit
and rest their tired feet.
Not long after George started as
Chairman at S’nF, he was elected
President of the Florida Chapter and
has been re-elected over and over. He
has helped to give this Chapter the
honor of being the first Chapter to
receive the “Outstanding Chapter of
the Year” award in 2010 at the
Middletown,Ohio,Convention.
We feel that George and Florence
deserve to be honored with this award.
Iris Morris
SWPC #64
News Editor/Treasurer
Florida Chapter
The board members agreed and
asked that a certificate be printed to be
presented at the convention. The certificate reads:
In recognition of their outstanding
contribution to the Short Wing Piper
Club and its goal to maintain and preserve the Piper Vagabonds, Clippers,
Pacers, Colts and Tri-Pacers, George
and Tyke have been selected to have
their names included on the Short
Wing Piper Club Honor Roll!
They are recognized for their service
to their Florida Chapter and to the
Short Wing Piper Club and aviation in
general for their work each year at
Sun ‘n Fun. In addition to leading the
Florida Chapter George has led the
aircraft camping group for many years
and Tyke has manned the SWPC booth
in the Type Club Tent for just as many
years. Their service to their chapter
and their club and its members has
been invaluable and they are to be
commended for their work for aviation
in general.
They join the Honor Roll alongside
previously recognized members Robert
A. Fuller, Stephen W. Marsh, Edwin F.
Wach, Kurt Schneider, Larry D. Smith,
Lonnie McLaughlin, George Fruehauf,
Iris Morris, Frank Rush, Charles H.
“Chuck” Lewis, Bob and Eleanor
Mills, Clyde Grant, Kent O’Kelly,
John Wood, Ralph Gutowski, Tom
Anderson, Cliff Van Vleet, John Beck,
Doug Stewart, Art Weisberger, and
Garry Butler.
Awarded at the 2013 SWPC
Convention, Sarasota Springs, N.Y.
George and Tyke’s names will be
added to the SWPC Honor Roll plaque
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on display in the club’s area at the
Piper Museum in Lock Haven. George
said he knows just where to hang their
certificate in the Short Wing Piper
Building at Sun ‘n Fun.
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Election results give the club
new leadership for 2013-2015
Connie Stevens (center) and Art Weisberger are shown above
with Judy Rudd during the convention. Connie, president, Art, secretary, and Kaaren McGlynn, treasurer, along with at large members
of the board Fred Mayes and Andy Seligson will be charged with
leading the club; perhaps first on their agenda will be the appointment of an interim vice president and two more at large board members.
By Eleanor Mills
As is traditional, the results of the
club’s elections were given at the convention’s closing banquet. Secretary
Art Weisberger announced that club
members either mailed in or submitted
at the business meeting 122 votes,
meaning that 10 percent of the eligible
voters had their say on the bylaws
amendments and the leadership of the
club for the next two years.
The bylaws amendments, which had
come under criticism at both the executive committee meeting and the business meeting for the fact that the present bylaws had not been printed with
the amendments and for the omission
of the need for a quorum to decide
matters eligible for voting, were
defeated. Art, who had no opponent,
was re-elected as secretary for the
club.
And
Connie
Stevens,
Homewood, Calif., was elected president, replacing Peter Lubig.
Before the end of the meeting, Mark
Ohlau, an at large member of the
board, came to the podium and read an
email announcing the resignation of
club vice president Kurt Selbert and at
large member John Kobbeman, as well
as himself.
According to the official bylaws of
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the club, a member in good standing
will be appointed by the Executive
Committee to fill the vice president’s
vacancy. The At-Large members of the
executive committee are stipulated to
be 2 to 4 members selected and
appointed by the officers. The resignations of Mark and John left two members, Fred Mayes and Andy Seligson,
still as at-large members.
Aircraft awards as
usual a highlight of
the closing banquet
As usual, the aircraft awards were
one of the highlights of the convention. With the weather making arrival
at the convention difficult —- and for
some people impossible —- the number of aircraft suffered, but not the
quality.
From the 16 aircraft on the field,
seven were selected as award winners.
With so few aircraft on the field, notes
from owners that their aircraft were
not to be judged were ignored, and the
following plaques were awarded:
Best Clipper, N5834H, Gilbert and
Barbara
Pierce’s
Red
Lady,
Germantown, Tenn.
Best Pacer, CF-GAG, Paul and
Heather Gagnon’s sharp looking PA20 from Guelph, Ontario. Paul had to
leave the convention early for his job
with a Canadian airline, so Heather
accepted the award.
Best Tri-Pacer, N8457D, Sid and
Sue Brain’s PA-22 from Harrison, Ark.
Best Colt, N5883Z, Tom and Amber
McKernan’s
PA-22-108
from
Gabriels, N.Y.
Best PA-22/20, N8879C, Jack and
Sandy
Madden’s
Pacer
from
Frostproof, Fla.
Best Non-Short Wing, NX49SM,
Steve McKeon’s Minion from Utica,
N.Y., a classy experimental with a
wooden prop with a 115 hp engine that
cruises at 120 mph.
And finally, the major award —- the
Bev
Jewett
Memorial
Grand
Champion award went to N87NM, the
150 hp Tri-Pacer owned by Dale and
Lisa Berger from Nazareth, Pa.
(A list of the aircraft at the convention is given elsewhere in the Who
was there and where did they come
from? story. And color photos of ALL
the aircraft at the convention are found
beginning on page 29 of this issue in
the annual Convention Color Section.)
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The Four F’s: Food, Fun, Fellowship, Family (the weather cancelled out the flying for most). Below, Paul Wolff takes the Mibus
family’s photo on the cruise. Above, shown visiting are Cliff and
Carole Van Vleet with George Klitsch and Iris Morris.
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Bob Fuller, speaking at the
membership luncheon. Bob,
known as the founder of the
club, holds Membership No. 1.
Bill and Teresa Lynch were
part of a 7-member Mid-America
Chapter group proposing (and
winning) the 2015 Convention.
Myrna Akins and Adolph
Svec applaud the cruise music.
Tom Anderson (left) and Lou
Reinkens work to solve a technical problem before Connie
Stevens’ presentation on the
2014 convention.
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2013 airplane convention
extravaganza (or how we spent
our summer vacation)
(Editor’s note: Jack is always the first convention-goer to tell about his trip.
But he won’t be the last, we hope. You, too, are invited to tell the story of your
flight to the convention, or just to tell us what you did while there!)
By Jack Madden)
Frostproof, Fla.
[email protected]
Our log, given as date, departure,
arrival, and flight time:
6/18, 52FL (Lake Clinch Airpark),
2J9 (Quincy, FL), 2.4
6/18, 2J9, MEI (Meridian, MS), 2.9
6/19, MEI, 7M2 (Mt. View, AR), 2.7
6/21, 7M2, ARG (Walnut Ridge,
AR), .6
6/21, ARG, 7M2, .6
6/21, 7M2, 7M2, .5
6/23, 7M2, BWG (Bowling Green,
KY), 2.6
6/23, BWG, 6G4 (Mt. Vernon, OH),
2.5
6/24, 6G4, D59 (Gowanda, NY), 1.9
6/29, D59, D67 (Rochester, NY),
1.3
6/30, D67, 0G7 (Seneca Falls, NY),
.3
6/30, 0G7, 5B2 (Saratoga Springs,
NY), 1.3
7/03, 5B2, NY0 (Johnstown, NY), .2
7/03, NY0, GFL (Glens Falls, NY),
.4
7/03, GFL, DDH (Bennington, VT),
.4
7/03, DDH, 5B2, .4
7/05, 5B2, 31E (West Creek, NJ),
2.3
7/07, 31E, SFQ (Suffolk, VA), 2.4
7/07, SFQ, HYW (Conway, SC), 2.4
7/08, HYW, SGJ (St. Augustine, FL
0, 2.8
7/08, SGJ, 52FL, 1.3
Once again Sandy and I were able to
attend both the Ercoupe Owners Club
and the Short Wing Piper Club conventions in one trip since they took
place a week apart. The EOC convention was in Mt. View, AR 6/20-23 and
the SWPC convention in Saratoga
Springs, NY 7/1-5.
Our plan was to fly one or two legs
per day and be finished flying before
the afternoon convection. We prefer
flying low whenever possible and feasible to enhance our view and we use
airnav.com to select layovers, usually
at small airports with user friendly
amenities such as mogas, courtesy
cars, convenient lodging and good user
reviews.
We took off early Tuesday 6/18 from
our home at Lake Clinch Airpark in
central Florida, headed for Quincy,
near Tallahassee. Cruising at 1500 feet
in smooth air up the west coast we saw
massive cabbage palm groves all along
the big bend coastal area. The Cabbage
Palm is Florida’s state tree. Shortly
into the second leg to Meridian, MS,
we encountered a frontal line of fast
moving storms across our course. The
Garmin ADS-B weather depiction
showed a gap in the line about 10nm
wide which roughly corroborated what
we could see visually, with clear
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weather north of the line. As we
approached the gap the ADS-B picture
changed. The gap was getting smaller.
ATC advised that we should be able to
penetrate the line in VMC and in fact
we did. Here we learned first-hand the
hazard of the updating time delay
when using nextrad weather. Arriving
at Meridian, we were delighted to be
given an auto and hangar space for the
night. We were off to a great start.
Meridian was home to the Keys brothers who set an airplane endurance
record in the 1930s using Curtis
Robins with air to air refueling.
Appropriately it is now home to an Air
Force refueling squadron.
Wednesday would be a one leg day
with good weather predicted. As we
leveled off at 1500 feet there came into
view a big shining object way up
ahead. We diverted to look at it and
took some pictures. I later identified it
as the very futuristic Golden Moon
Casino and Resort on the outskirts of
Philadelphia, MS. The sun was reflecting on its mirror facade.
As we moved across northern
Mississippi the pine forests eventually
gave way to fertile low lands of the
Mississippi River and the many rice
fields. The rice continued in Arkansas
for quite a distance before petering out
at the foothills of the Ozarks.
Soon we were landing at Mt. View.
Although we were a day early there
already were three Ercoupes on the
ramp. Mt. View is a quaint mountain
town situated in the beautiful Ozarks
near the White River. It is famous for
its bluegrass and folk music as well as
being a mecca for tourists, art and
antique
aficionados.
Blanchard
Caverns, a short drive from town, is
totally awesome. There were about
twenty Ercoupes attending plus our
Pacer. Actually we have an Ercoupe at
home that hopefully will fly again one
day.
We joined the Coupers for a fly out
to Walnut Ridge Airport for a tour of
their WWII museum. It is located
about 70nm NE of Mt. View in the bottom lands. It was one of the airfields
used after the war where many thousands of surplus war birds and airliners
were dismembered and relegated to
scrap. Next year the convention will be
held in Wayne, NE.
We departed Mt. View on Sunday
6/23 headed toward New York planning on spending the night in Mt.
Vernon, OH, northeast of Columbus.
The Garmin 795/GDL 39 helped us
avoid weather along our route as we
detoured south to Bowling Green, TN
for fuel. Continuing on we seemed to
be keeping just ahead of the weather
which was blossoming behind us.
Arriving at the picturesque grass field
we followed a Cherokee in for landing
at Wynkoop Field. Mr. Wynkoop
fueled the Pacer for us and gave us the
keys to his car so we could go into
town, eat and find a place to stay.
I left Sandy at the motel and went
back to the airfield. The locals were
getting ready to host the national Waco
convention the following weekend and
were busy shaping up the hangars and
the field. I put the Pacer in their big
hangar, cleaned it up and changed the
oil. What a great place to stop for the
night.
Monday 6/24, we flew one leg to
Gowanda, NY where we planned to
visit with cousins. The landscape in
northeastern Ohio is beautiful with its
rolling hills and lush vegetation. After
crossing Lake Chautauqua in western
New York, we arrived at Gowanda
which is a public airfield owned and
maintained by the Garnatt family rock
and gravel company. It’s a 4000 by
100 foot east-west turf strip with one
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That’s Jack as he was spotted a couple of times at the airfield,
polishing N8879C to make sure she looked her best for the judges.
All that polish --- and the Short Wing’s natural good looks --- won the
judge’s nod for Best 22/20 at the convention!
problem. There is a 150 foot gravel Centers and the Glenn Curtiss
pile right at the east end of it. We rent- Museum at Hammondsport.
ed a car and toured about western NY
visiting Niagara Falls, Buffalo downUnusual and persistent rain patterns
town and harbor side including three forced us to stay in Gowanda longer
US naval vessels. We also visited the than planned, departing Saturday afterBuffalo and Jamestown Audubon noon 6/29 for Saratoga Springs only to
See the rest of Jack’s story and some more photos on page 45
after the color section.
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The 2013 Convention in color
Award-winning Short
Wings lead the parade!
Owner Dale Berger stands proudly by our cover plane, chosen
to win the special Bev Jewett Memorial Grand Champion award.
Dale and his wife, Lisa, were among the few (but mighty) who were
able to fly to the convention. However, N87NM was so outstanding,
it would have won over a full field of Short Wings. “This plane is just
immaculately done,” Frank Sperandeo (who couldn’t fly Miss Pearl,
his own immaculately done Short Wing, to the convention because
of the weather) said after looking it over earlier in the convention
week.
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Sid and Sue Brain flew in from Harrison, Ark., in N8457D, winner
of the Best Tri-Pacer award.
Tom and Amber McKernan were busy during the convention as
part of the host Northeast Chapter, with Amber manning the registration desk a lot of the time. Their pristine Colt, N5883Z, meanwhile,
stayed at the airport garnering not only a lot of onlookers but also
winning the Best Colt award. Tom and Amber are from Gabriels, N.Y.
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CF-GAG captured the Best PA-20 award and helped to give the
convention a strong Canadian flavor, along with president Peter
Lubig, his wife, Bonnie, Susan Jewett, Jennifer Keough-Martel. Ron
and Margaret Stokes, Allan and Sylvia Bowman, and Michael Shaw.
Paul and Heather Gagnon are from Guelph, Ontario.
Jack and Sandy Madden flew N8879C in from Frostproof, Fla., to
capture the Best 22/20 award. Jack was seen at the airport polishing
79-Charlie to make sure she looked her best for the judges.
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Red Lady, N5834H, shown here returning from the poker run,
continued her winning ways, giving Gilbert and Barbara Pierce
another trophy to take back to Germantown, Tenn. Red Lady captured the Best Clipper award.
NX49SM captured a lot of attention from convention-goers as
well as the Best Non-Short Wing award for owner Steve McKeon,
Utica, N.Y., as people admired the wooden prop and questioned just
what the plane, named Minion, was.
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Other aircraft at the convention --- not
award winners this time but worthy of
admiration anyway!
N5380H didn’t win the award at this convention, but was an
award-winner all the same. Owner Larry Jenkins, shown below holding the award for Best Classic won at this summer’s Sentimental
Journey, asked that the Clipper not be judged. Larry, who is the
club’s Education Foundation
director and manager of the
club store, lives in Hernando,
Miss., and in an email dated July
11 (six days after departure time
for most of the convention
goers) Larry said, “I have
almost completed my journey in
the Clipper. I am stuck in
Rockingham, NC, because of
weather, and I am staying with
some friends in Wadesboro, NC.
I have no idea when the weather
will clear, so I can fly on west
and to my home.” That’s just a
taste of what convention-goers
went through this year to attend
a wonderful convention!
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Here’s what happens at convention --- people gather around airplanes and visit about their trip, what they’ve done since the last
time they met, and -- oh, yes --- about the airplane they’re standing
by, which in this case is Keith and Patricia Flint’s N50KF from
Chatham, N.Y. (Editor’s note: I think the visiting convention-goers
are George Frederick, David Harmon, and Larry and Mary Huntley.
But don’t hold me to it!)
Barb Miller flew 38-Delta in from Lewistown, Mont., by way of
Kentucky because of the weather.
Six Two Zulu wasn’t on display at the airport, since owner Rico
Cannone hangars her at the airport, but most of the Short Wings
enjoyed parking on the grass by Rico’s hangar. In this photo, Rico
and Fabio Schulthess are coming back in from the poker run.
Bill and Teresa Lynch from Neosho, Mo., flew N7152D to meet up
with Sid and Sue Brain on their flight to the convention, dodging
rainstorms and overnighting on the way. They flew back by way of
Niagara Falls, a popular side trip for convention-goers this year.
Both couples are members of the Mid-America Chapter.
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Melissa Schipul is shown arriving in N5833H, her Clipper called
Peppermint. Melissa, from New Milford, Conn., flew to the convention on Sunday, went back home to work, and then flew back on
Wednesday to enjoy the cruise and Thursday’s banquet, where she
and Rose Mibus helped convention director Andy Seligson give out
the raffle prizes. The raffle, by the way, earned around $1,500 for the
club’s Education Foundation.
Andy Seligson’s N8500D sports a tuba as nose art! Andy and
Gloria are from Yonkers, N.Y.
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Here are the two other non-Short Wings, both Pipers, at the convention. Jim and Donna Lambert came in the Warrior II, N6331C from
Brighton, Colo., and Kevin, Michele, Zach, and Jacob Weidner came
in the twin below, N13GP, arriving IFR because of the weather. Jacob
was one of the three 11-year-old boys at the convention. The other
two were Ryan Mibus and Jason Dalton, who came with grandparents Walt and Jane Buskey from Etna, N.H. Ryan, who has been
coming to conventions since 2003, was forced to arrive by a LONG
car ride with parents Myrna and Owen Mibus and his sister Rose
from Webster, Minn. The Mibus family started out their Pacer but sat
at an airport 100 miles from home for awhile before flying back
home and beginning the drive.
That’s the sum total of the airplanes at the convention, the
fewest since Bob Fuller and three others met at an airport and decided to form a club devoted to the Short Wing Pipers. Bob, who holds
Membership No. 1 and is still active in the club, was the speaker this
year at the membership luncheon, talking about the beginnings of
the club. Also at the convention were long-time members Lonnie
McLaughlin (Member No. 5), Jim and Elaine Freeman (Member No.
11), Iris Morris (Member No. 64), and Clyde Smith, Jr. (Member No.
142).
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Convention attendees enjoyed a variety of
activities, including just visiting!
For these members, an exciting activity was collecting their
plaques for having award-winning aircraft. Shown left to right are
Dale Berger, Steve McKon, Tom McKernan, Sid Brain, Gilbert Pierce,
Heather Gagnon, and Jack Madden. Heather’s husband, Paul, had to
leave the convention early for another flying engagement --- with
Canada Air, for which he is a pilot.
Over 60 people enjoyed the tour of the Sarasota Springs
Revoluntionary War Battlefield, led by a costumed tour guide.
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Ralph Gutowski took this photo of Barb Miller on the poker run.
Ralph reported that Barbara said she wasn’t a real doctor --- just a
surgeon. And also a long-distance flyer. Did she go around the
world this time? Nope, but she did have to divert to Kentucky to
miss some of the rain. Jack Madden said he had hoped he could win
the longest distance award (which wasn’t given this year) after Barb
beat him out of it several time. A check of Google showed he was
doomed to second place again, since Lewistown, Mont., is 2,469
miles from Sarasota Springs, while Frostproof, Fla., is only 1,958.
But then, Jack and Sandy did take home the PA-22/20 trophy!
Whether on one of the planned activities or a meeting or just
having breakfast, lunch, or dinner in the Holiday Inn’s restaurant,
people had fun. At left, Glorida Fields, Susan Jewett, and Heather
Gagnon are enjoying the cruise. At right, Allan and Carol Deyoe,
Coal Valley, Ill., are shown . Gloria is from Yonkers, N.Y., Susan from
Victoria Harbor, Ontario, and Heather from Guelph, Ontario.
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Everyone who attended loved the cruise on Lake George, with
dinner, music, dancing, lots of visiting, and sightseeing --- including
seeing a sailboat race.
Stan and Amy Smith,
Raymond, N.H., are shown on
the cruise.
Elaine and Jim Freeman,
Breinigsville, Pa., were among
several Short Wingers who took
to the dance floor during the
cruise.
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Poker run attendees above are shown getting their cards from
Bill Natale (left). Shown with Bill, who is from Saratoga Springs, are
Gilbert and Barbara Pierce, Barb Miller, and Rico Cannone and
Fabio Schulthess, who were in Six Two Zulu., and another participant between Bill and Gilbert. Kevin Weidner won the poker run with
a hand of three 7’s.
George and Tyke Klitsch
were inducted into the SWPC
Hall of Honor, receiving their
certificate at the banquet
Thursday night. Above, Pat
Adams and Tyke are shown on
the cruise. In the last issue, Pat
and Tyke were shown working
in the type club tent at Sun ‘n
Fun, one of George and Tyke’s
contributions which earned
them the Honor Roll honor.
Tyke, George and Peter
Lubig are shown at the banquet
with the award.
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Bob Fuller, founder of the club, is shown above with two members of the club’s executive committee, at-large member and convention director Andy Seligson on the left and Art Weisberger, club
secretary for lo these many years, on the right. Art is from Sierra
Vista, Ariz. At right below, Connie Stevens, incoming club president
is shown at the banquet, flanked by Bill Natale (left) and Rico
Cannone. At left below, outgoing president Peter Lubig and his wife,
Bonnie Calwell, are shown during the convention.
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Those who doubt the power of one person to affect change
should have been at the convention, when Sid Brain stood to
protest the proposed bylaws amendments. In addition to the confusion caused by not printing the original bylaws, Sid said, the omission of the need for a quorum in
matters to be decided by a vote
should cause the amendments
to be defeated. Above (left to
right) Sid, president Peter
Lubig, and at-large board member Mark Ohlau study the paragraph in question. Mark was
charged by the board to review
the bylaws and propose amendments. Most of the amendments, he said, were to allow
electronic voting which he
hoped would greatly increase
the number of members participating in elections and matters
needing votes. At left is Troy
Hamon, Alaskan author, who
was the keynote speaker at the
banquet.
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Larry Jenkins is shown (standing above) visiting at the banquet
with (clockwise from left front) Bob Fuller and his wife, Nancy
Stutzman, George and Tyke Klitsch, and Iris Morris.
Phil Hoy, the club’s liason with the Piper Museum, is shown at
left above in his Independence Day splendor. With him are Cliff Van
Vleet and Myrna Mibus. Phil is from Portland, Conn., Cliff from
Sierra Vista, Ariz., and Myrna from Webster, Minn. Myrna is the
club’s website content manager and was praised highly at different
times during the convention for the website she helped set up. At
right, the club’s newest Honor Roll inductees take a turn on the
dance floor during the convention. So there you have it, a glimpse
of this year’s convention in color --- airplanes, friends, events, and
food. Wait a minute --- aren’t those the 4 F’s? Flying, Fellowship,
Food, and Fun? Put yourself in the picture next year!
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The rest of the story, continued
from page 28
be forced to stop outside of Rochester
due to weather. On Sunday we tried
again and got as far as Seneca Falls
and after waiting around a few hours
the weather improved and we made it
to Saratoga Springs where there were
already ten Short Wings on the
ground.
The weather set in again on Monday
and Tuesday preventing more arrivals
and ensuring a low attendance of
Short Wing airplanes. By Wednesday,
the weather was improving and the
poker run was flown. A wonderful
cruise on Lake George with glorious
evening weather was enjoyed by all.
As the boat passed by the fantastic
Sagamore Resort the view was breath
taking.
Saratoga Springs is home to
America’s first public horse racetrack
which is 150 years old. It was the site
of the battle that signified the turning
point of the Revolutionary War. It has
numerous mineral springs and spas
which have attracted visitors from all
over the world. What we liked also
was the wonderful food available in
its many restaurants and cafes. We
enjoyed authentic Indian cuisine as
well as the best NY pizza anywhere. It
is truly a great town with remarkable
ambience.
Next year the convention will be
held in Santa Maria, CA.
By the way, our Pacer won the
award for best PA-22/20.
We departed Friday 7/5 for NYC
and points south following the
Hudson River at 1500 feet and got an
excellent look at the valley topography. As we approached NYC we
descended to 1100 feet to conform
with the Hudson River exclusion corridor procedures. This portion of the
trip was very exciting for us. It rivaled
the time when a member, Ron Enck,
led us on the Ruth Glacier flying tour
during the 2001 Alaska convention.
We had to watch carefully since there
was quite a bit of traffic, especially
helicopters. We were required to make
radio calls at designated reporting
points and fly along the East side of
the corridor between 1000 and 1300
feet MSL. We took lots of pictures and
after one orbit around the Statue of
Liberty, headed for the Verrazano
Narrows bridge and the Jersey shore.
Landing at West Creek, NJ, we
were greeted by another cousin and
spent the next two days visiting relatives. My Aunt Tillie’s house on Long
Beach Island was destroyed by hurricane Sandy last year, but fortunately
she had just moved to a nursing home
two weeks before the storm hit. She’s
94 and still sharp as a tack. We had a
good visit.
Departing West Creek Sunday
morning for a mogas fuel stop and
breakfast in Suffolk, VA, we enjoyed
good weather and smooth air. We flew
over Cape May, the Delmarva peninsula and the Tidewater area. It brought
back memories of a long time ago
when my NJ cousin and I landed my
first plane, a 7DC Champ, on one of
those Virginia capes and had to dig the
wheels out of the sand to get going
again.
As with all our fuel stops we fell
into the familiar ritual of finding the
rest room, cleaning the windshield,
checking/servicing the oil, and look-
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The
sign
above,
at
Hammondsport, N.Y., commemorates Glenn H. Curtiss, born in
Hammondsport in 1978. The
sign reads: Early maker of
motorcycle
and
airplane
engines --- flew successfully airplanes and hydroplanes here
1908-1911. Several members
talked about the museum that is
located at Hammondsport, an
easy flight from the convention.
The sign above was seen
earlier on the Maddens’ trip, at
Keys Field in Meridian, Miss.
The
sign
reads:
World
endurance flight record set at
this airport (Key Field), July 1,
1935, by Algene and Fred Key
after staying aloft 635 hours and
34 minutes in the “Ole Miss,” a
Curtiss Robin aircraft now
enshrined in Air Museum of the
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. Refueling pilots
were James H. Keeton and W.H.
Ward, Jr.
(Editor’s note: SWPC members never know what they will
find at an airport along their
route. One time Bob and I and
Kay were dodging thunderstorms trying to get to Lubbock
for a niece’s graduation and
landed at one airport to be met
by only the airport dog!)
ing over the plane.
The next leg from Suffolk to
Conway, SC was uneventful and may
even have been anti-climactic for us
since it was dawning on us that our trip
was winding down.
Monday morning 7/8, our last day of
the trip, was clear with a mild south
wind. We departed Conway for St.
Augustine and flew at 500 feet across
the South Carolina low country.
Smoke from some distant stack was
transformed into a streak of low lying
fog by the soft breeze. It was like
magic being there as we cruised above
it. Before long we climbed to 1000 feet
as we crossed Charleston below the
Class C airspace. Soon we were over
the coast.
We called Hilton Head Tower to
request clearance through the class D
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airspace. Tower asked if we’d like
flight following and of course we
accepted the offer. Now we were at
1500 feet and meandering along the
irregular coastal route in among the
many islands and inlets. Some isolated
rain squalls appeared and we took the
opportunity to fly through one to wash
the windshield. This was probably the
most enjoyable and comfortable leg of
the entire trip.
After the stop in St. Augustine we
were on our last 75 minute leg to Lake
Clinch Airpark. We landed around
noon and so another great convention
trip came to a close. Thank you EOC
and SWPC people for making it possible to reacquaint with our wonderful
airplane friends and for all the memorable experiences.
(Editor’s note: Thanks to Larry Jenkins, Ralph Gutowski, Andy
Seligson, and Fred Mayes for sending some of the photos used in this 2013
convention section. And Jack, of course, for the two pictures of the signs.)
Jack’s story wraps up this issue’s coverage of the 2013 convention. However,
there are a couple of Chapter Reports with convention news and pictures.
And probably more to come in the next issue --- Deadline September 20!
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Membership report
More news from the mail bag
By Eleanor Mills
While working on this issue and
reflecting on the fact that six of the
very early members of the club were
present at this year’s convention, I got
to wondering who else was very early
but wasn’t there.
Those who WERE there were Bob
Fuller, Member No. 1; Lonnie
McLaughlin, 5; Jim and Elaine
Freeman, 11; Iris Morris, 64. Clyde
Smith, Jr., has to be counted in as an
early member, too, although his number is 142. He joined in 1980. All of
these members joined in 1978, 79 or
80. Several others also joined in 1980
but weren’t at this year’s convention.
Of the earliest 10 member numbers
still active in the club, those who
weren’t there are Don Mangold, 19;
Gil Halasz, 56; Steve Culler, 58; Jon
Webster, 59; Jack and Pat
Lautzenheiser, 73; and Jack and Donna
Bennett, 95.
Those 14 people (counting the three
spousal members) are all familiar to
me except for Jon Webster. I’ve met
Steve, Jack and Pat, and Jack and
Donna at earlier conventions, and Don
and Gil I have corresponded with —and you’ve probably read their submissions to the Short Wing Piper
News. And Clyde is the Cub Doctor,
so most of us are familiar with him. I
think he’s also been to conventions in
the past.
It strikes me that we’re very lucky
that out of the first 100 people to sign
up for the club, 10 are still active in the
club after 35-36 years. And if you
look closely through the color section
in this issue, you’ll find that Jim and
Elaine are not only active but able to
show some of the younger members a
few moves on the dance floor. (I must
admit, though, that they didn’t join in
when the musicians called for the twist
contest.)
Every year I marvel at the work the
convention committee or host chapter
has put in and every year I find myself
enjoying the convention and saying,
“Well, this is one of the best we’ve
had!” Weather this year held down
attendance, at least of our Short
Wings, but no matter, we still had fun!
Andy and his crew have to be congratulated —- again, it was one of the best!
Melissa Schipul, who came to this
year’s convention twice, once on
Sunday and then returned later in the
week after putting in some work hours,
agrees. She wrote to the Northeast
Chapter, “I’ve had contact with a few
new friends that I made last week and
one I made at the organized camping at
OSH in 2009 and EVERYONE has
congratulated and thanked us for a fabulous convention. I am so glad I was
able to make it to at least part of it.
Thank you to everyone for making me
feel so welcome and for letting me
help out. It was a great time for me for
sure!”
Since the Mid-America Chapter to
which I belong has been awarded the
2015 convention for Branson, Mo.,
I’m sure I’m going to find out just how
much work the host chapter has to put
in. Those of us closest to Branson have
already made three trips there to solidify the early planning and prepare for
presenting our proposal at this year’s
convention. For those of you who
weren’t there, I’ll include our proposal
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in a coming issue. That’s about the
only thing you’re going to hear about it
until we’re saying, “Gee, the 2014
convention in Santa Maria, Calif., was
one of the best we’ve ever had!” From
now until then, the focus is going to be
on 2014.
Before the convention, president
Peter Lubig notified me that the winner of the Free Gift drawing in June for
the Rosen Sun Visor was Phil Pirrotta,
Lake Oswego, Ore. Peter noted that
out of 67 members who entered, Phil
was number 66, just under the wire!
Maybe we’ll get a chance to see the
visor on Phil’s Short Wing at the Santa
Maria convention!
You will read in a couple of stories
in this issue about the scholarship students for 2013-14. I sent them word of
their complimentary membership and
got prompt emails back from two of
them. Tyler Densford said, “Thank you
so much for the information! It is an
honor and a privilege to be a member
of the Short Wing Piper Club. I can’t
wait to read through the latest issue!”
Tyler is a repeat winner who will be a
sophomore at Delta State University,
Cleveland, Miss. The other reply came
from Michael (Duke) Davis, who said,
“Thanks for the update and information about the SWPC. It’s a great privilege to be part of such a great organization. I would have to say that out of
all the aircraft I’ve flown, I enjoy flying the Clipped Wing J-3 the best.
Nothing beats cruising along at 60
knots with the windows down on a
summer evening.” Duke, also a repeat
winner, is due to graduate in December
of this year from the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville.
Sometimes non-US or Canada people wanting to join the club have a bit
of a problem with our system accept-
ing their credit cards. Such was the
case for one of our newest members,
Carlos
Alejandro
Retamosa,
Mercedes, Uruguay, who joined with a
partner membership for Carlos Taran,
Treinta y Tres, Uruguay. Carlos in the
end had to enlist the help of a friend to
make the transaction, but Julio’s card
worked like a charm. Carlos sent an
additional email saying that he and his
partner (that other Carlos) have
acquired a PA-20 that has been disassembled for 15 years. “And we hope to
fly her!” he said. Maybe they’ll be in
the market for one or more of the
club’s CD’s to help with the reassembly!
Another member who needed a bit
of assistance in getting a purchase
made is Dominique Seltz, a French
radio control modeler, who wanted to
buy the club’s CD of drawings, especially for the Tri-Pacer ones. Club
store manager Larry Jenkins and I
worked together to make that happen
and soon Dominique had the CD, saying “I am planning to build it using
welded steel tubings. It might take me
a long time . . . but I’ll show you pictures of it.” So, one of these days a TriPacer (but somewhat smaller) will be
flying around France!
Lonnie McLaughlin, Member No. 5
from Brentwood, N.Y., wrote after
receiving his July-August issue. “Saw
the Swan Lake pictures last night.
Thanks for dredging them up. Besides
Bob and I (looking so young), who’s
left of the Honor Roll Charter members? I know Ed and Steve are gone
and haven’t heard of any of the others
recently. How many of the member
numbers 1-25 are still active?” The
other charter members are Larry
Smith, Kurt Schneider, and George
Fruehauf. George is dead also, but I
just don’t know about Larry and Kurt.
But the beginning of this column lists
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Lonnie McLaughlin,one of the charter members of the club and
the club’s longtime secretary and historian, is shown at left above
with Frank Sperandeo (center) and John D’Amico at the closing banquet.
other early active members. Lonnie
drove up to Saratoga, leaving wife Lu
home to babysit the five cats. And as
you can see from the picture, Lonnie
still looks young!
I heard from another longtime member recently. Jim Haynes, Bushnell,
Ill., who joined the club in 1987, wrote
to say that in moving after 53 years in
one house he packed up a lot of
“stuff.” This spring, he started sorting
and discovered something: “Among
the boxes of aviation stuff I found a
nice plaque. The plate attached said
‘Outstanding Service Award 19921993 presented to Jim Haynes.’ For
the life of me I cannot recall anything
I might have done to deserve this.” I
did a bit of research and found that the
plaque was given to Jim in 1993 at the
convention in Ellenville, also hosted
by the Northeast Chapter, for donating
the prop that Jim Fix turned into a
clock that was raffled off at the convention, I think to benefit the
Education Foundation. With that prodding his memory, Jim said, “I recall the
whole episode now. I had restored my
Clipper a couple of years before . The
prop did not appear serviceable so I
acquired another that came off a Colt
in Tennessee. I don’t recall who came
up with the suggestion, but appearently Jim Fix had done the clock/prop
before. Nor do I remember who the
winner was. Anyway it was deemed
successful and the club made a little
money. Those were the ‘Good old
days’ . . . right?” Right, Jim, and we
missed seeing you and Anne this year.
The Oklahoma Chapter must have
seemed to be jumping around a bit —at least in the listing of chapter presidents. First someone told me Tom
Gifford was the new president, even
though he lived in Las Vegas. Then
someone told Adolph that wasn’t true.
Then Peter linked the Oklahoma chapter with the High Plains Chapter. Ah,
but now the Oklahoma Chapter is
where it’s supposed to be!
I got a note from Carolyn Gifford
asking me to change Tom’s address to
Barnsdale, Oklahoma, where they
used to live. “Tom will be at the ranch
and airport for the summer and fall
months,” Carolyn said. “I plan on staying here in Las Vegas for most of the
time. Tom retired January 30 from
American Airlines with almost 40
years of service. He loves to fly and
ride his BMW motorcycles and the
summer heat in Las Vegas is not good
for flying.” I also talked a bit to Tom
and he has sent in the Oklahoma chap-
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ter report for this issue, with already
two meetings under their belts. Good
to hear from both of you and we’re
glad Oklahoma is back in the fold.
(But we missed the Oklahoma group at
the convention! At least one person
noted that there was no Utilitarian
Award or Egregious Error Award presented this year.)
Mike Rigg, Riverside, Ala., was one
of the entries into Peter Lubig’s Short
Wing Membership Improvement
Program (SWMIP), giving a gift membership to Rickey Gilmer of Pell City,
Ala. Mike wrote to say, “Thanks for
helping with this. I’m upset about the
lack of local support of the flying community here in Alabama. The airport
both Mr. Gilmer and I fly from used to
have an EAA chapter and was
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involved with the SWPC chapter. Both
are now defunct and I hope to light a
fire under some of the locals. As the
only shop on our field of somewhere
near 100 aircraft, Rickey’s support will
be important. The fact that he’ll soon
be flying a PA-22-108 Colt will help.”
Rodney Heaton, Keighley, Yorks,
England, sent me an email to let me
know he paid his membership renewal
via Paypal. “My friend and I still operate a PA-22 in Florida during holiday
visits,” Rodney said. “It goes about as
fast as I now can think!”
that her parents should not be driving
any more (he is in his mid 80s), so we
put our house up for sale and headed to
Minnesota last September. I pulled our
5th Wheel and Lin drove their van to
Texas with them along for the ride. We
planned on living in our 5th Wheel,
but while in Texas, we found a nice
mobile home for sale that we couldn’t
pass up and since we would be spending time with Lin’s parents during the
winter, we became ‘winter Texans.’
Our Utah home sold while we were in
Texas, so this became our address. I
plan to homestead down there.” While
they were in Texas, Steve and Shirley
Shepard (Omaha, Neb.) stopped by for
a few days and then John and Linda
found out that Rick and Nancy
Jacobson (also from Omaha) spend
their winters on South Padre Island,
which is just an hour’s drive from
Pharr. When John wrote, they were
back in Utah living in their trailer at
Century Campground (“where the
Luses and the Carlsons stayed during
the Ogden convention,” John added).
“Our plan is to head back to Minnesota
the last of August, visiting family and
friends along the way, and midOctober make our way back to Pharr,
Texas, for the winter,” John continued.
“Do you know of any Short Wingers in
the area?” I don’t, but maybe John and
Linda can get in touch with Ed and
Ellie Block, who do the Longhorn
Chapter newsletter. They probably
know.
The Texas chapter might get some
new members, via Utah and
Minnesota. John and Linda Parish (our
convention directors at Ogden, Utah,
last year) are now at least part-time
Texans. John wrote to explain what he
called kind of a long story. “Lin’s folks
go from Isle, Minn., in the summer to
Pharr, Texas, in the winter, and seeing
as Lin retired last April, she decided
Wayne Juniper, Mount Hope,
Ontario, rejoined after letting his
membership lapse. Wayne had hoped
to meet up with Peter Lubig at
Sentimental Journey but had to miss
because his grandson was having his
pacemaker replaced. Wayne was hoping also he might be able to attend the
convention in Saratoga Springs,
depending on his grandson’s condi-
Jim Hann, Ballwin, Mo., wrote to
say that he wanted to be on the list to
read his SWPN online rather than
receive the bound copy. Jim said, “I’ve
been reading the back issues as well as
the current one via the .pdf and my
iPad. It sure beats carrying magazines
in my suitcase when I’m working. I’m
an airline pilot like several of the folks
around the club.” Jim noted that he has
already done this for his EAA chapter
newsletter. So far, I think there are
only eight members who have opted to
do this. I think I’ve figured out how to
keep these members off the label lists
that go to the printer, while still keeping them on the membership list, so
I’ll try to make this happen. (And then
probably one of them will email me to
say, “Why didn’t I get the News this
time? I really wanted the issue with the
color photos!”)
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tion. “I had a trip planned with my
motor home and Gold Wing to spend a
few days touring around the Finger
Lakes of New York later in July. As
long as things go well with my grandson next week I will move my trip to
the Finger Lakes up so that I can attend
the SWPC Convention.” Well, I hope
it was the weather and not his grandson’s condition that kept Wayne from
attending the convention.
Iris Morris, Plant City, Fla., passed
along this email which some of you
might be interested in. It came from
Mark Robidoux, PilotWorkshops.com,
who said to Iris, “We’re always trying
to reach more pilots with our Tip of the
Week. If you’ve found these tips helpful, and know other pilots that might
enjoy them, could you forward this
email to them? The link to sign up (no
charge, of course) is http://pilotworkshop.com/tips.htm. We’re been sending out these tips since 2006 and look
forward to sharing more for years to
come.” Iris passed it along, so my
guess is she has found the tips helpful.
Frank Kane, Rochester, N.Y., sold
his Colt, N5702Z, that he had advertised in the News. “I bought it new
December 11, 1962, and sold it July
12, 2013,” Frank said. “I still want to
be a member of the SWPC.” Great,
Frank!
One of the new members listed this
period is Tom Edmondson, Kansas
City, Mo. He just bought a Tri-Pacer.
Here’s what he said, “I flew my 1953
Piper Tri-Pacer for the very first time
this past weekend and had the time of
my life! What an amazing airplane and
it even impressed the CFI with me (I
had to get five hours ‘side-by-side’ for
insurance mandate). He is now thinking about getting a Tri-Pacer because
of my plane!” Tom has promised a
story soon on why he bought a 1953
model and what he named his TriPacer.
As usual, we got a bunch of donations this period, most of them with
membership renewals. Chuck Warren,
Sarver, Pa., who is an engineer with
Aerospace Materials & Processes, sent
in $5 for the library and $5 for the
Education Foundation; Doug and Rava
Stewart, Cashmere, Wash., sent in $25
for the library and $25 for the
Education Foundation (Doug is retired
and an A&P/IA); Ben Rasch, Benton
City, Wash., sent in $20 for the library;
Don and Susan Dench, Twentynine
Palms, Calif., sent in $3 for the library
(Don is an A&P); David Butler,
Ipswich, Mass., sent in $30 for the
Education Foundation;
David and Pat Adams, West
Ossipee, N.H., sent in $25 for the
Education Foundation (and also donated lots of time to both Sun ‘n Fun and
the Saratoga Springs convention).
Dave added a note, saying, “I still fly
N9514D, a wonderful restored PA-22160; it is almost like a new AC, but not
a 10. It has given me seven years of
flying pleasure. It still is restoring —I keep adding improvement, as the
budget allows. I have had this aircraft
for 41 years. I have flown others, but
this will take us to the rest home and
on. I have N3519A as a project. It has
a tail wheel and I use it to keep busy. It
is not ready to cover yet. See you at the
convention!”
Abdul Ahmad, Aiken, S.C., donated
$10 to the library; Howard
Chamberlain, Youngstown, Ohio, a
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retired aviation writer and flight
instructor, donated $25 to the library
and $25 to the Education Foundation;
Ron and Rebecca Demmler, Childs,
Md., donated $25 to the Education
Foundation (good to see you at the
convention!); John and Linda Parish,
about whom I’ve already written,
donated $50 to the library and $50 to
the Education Foundation; Myrna
Mibus, Webster, Minn., our website
content manager, donated $20 to the
Education Foundation; Bill and Diana
Spurlock, Elk City, Okla., donated $25
to the library and $25 to the Education
Foundation (Bill is a chiropractor);
John and Marjorie Ritchie, Duluth,
Ga., donated $20 to the Education
Foundation, and John described his
occupation as “airplane nut” ;
Roger and Sharon Montambo,
Charlotte, N.C., donated $10 to the
library and $10 to the Education
Foundation; Ray and Charlotte Lynn,
Noble, Ill., donated $10 to the
Education Foundation; David and
Sally Luse, Camas, Wash., donated
$13 to the Education Foundation
(Dave is a CFII and both he and Sally
have held positions on the club’s board
and staff); Donald and Joyce Helsley,
Quincy, Wash., donated $20 to the
library and $20 to the Education
Foundation; Timothy Fiedler, Lake
Geneva, Wisc., donated $20 to the
Education Foundation; Michael and
Julia Douglas, Holt, Mo., new members, donated $20 to the library and
$10 to the Education Foundation
(Michael is skilled in tool and die);
Don and Letitia Davis, Kirkland,
Wash., donated $10 to the Education
Foundation; Joe Collura, Glenwood,
N.J., donated $10 to the Education
Foundation; Rene Burdet, Belgrade,
Maine, donated $5 to the library and
$5 to the Education Foundation.
Donations to the Education
Foundation in memory of Lew Porter
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came from Norma Marschke, Towson,
Md., $50; Mr. and Mrs. David Porter,
Sr., $50, and the Mid-Atlantic Chapter,
delivered to Larry Jenkins, director of
the Education Foundation, by Gene
Keller, Treasurer, at Sentimental
Journey, $100.
Larry also reported that he received
a check from Rich Waldren, treasurer
of the Columbia River Chapter, with a
donation of $416. The chapter was celebrating 13 years as an SWPC chapter.
A number of other members took the
time to tell us something about themselves, listing their occupation or special skills: John Killian, Live Oak, Fla.,
is a retired welder; Carl Lovett,
Mansfield, Ontario, Canada, is a retired
engineer from AVRO; Kevin and
Michele Weidner, Bunker Hill, Ill., are
farmers and Kevin is an A&P, CFI, and
he and Michele brought family to the
convention, arriving IFR with Zach and
Jacob in their Twin; Philip Hyatt,
Gadsden, Ala., is an A&P, IA; Jeff
Faught, Bismarck, N.D., is a pilot and
mechanic; Roger Deiterman, Dacono,
Colo., is a plumber and builder; Stanley
Stone, Oakland, Tenn, is an A&P IA;
Michael Doster, Nampa, Idaho, is a helicopter commercial pilot and an A&P;
Steven and Karen Chrsitensen are from
Platte, S.D., and Steven is a welder;
Paul Michel, O’Brien, Fla., bought the
Micro Vortex Generators from the club
store for his Vagabond, PA-17 N4879H,
serial 17-178.
I’m sure you’re tired of me telling
you to make a difference for your club,
but in my opinion, each person named
in this issue is making a difference,
whether it is by donating money or
time, running for office, serving on the
board, coming to the convention,
working on the convention, writing
stories or taking photos, going to chap-
ter fly-ins, or just telling us something
about themselves with their renewals.
Even just renewing is making a difference.
I once read that the most influential
sentence made up of only ten 2-letter
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words is “If it is to be, it is up to me.”
I say that in this club, we modify that
to say, “If it is to be, it is up to us.”
Let’s all pull together to support the
new board and make this year even
better than last year.
SWPC Website How-To
How to log in to the
SWPC Website
By Myrna CG Mibus
Website Content Manager
[email protected]
Here’s how you log in:
Go to www.shortwingpiperclub.org
Click on Member Login in the blue
nav bar near the top of the page. You
will get a screen with My Account and
Login on it with boxes for Email and
Password below that (see image)
Enter your email address in the
Email box Enter your password in the
Password box. Your password is your
member number (found on the mailing
label of your Short Wing Piper News)
Click on “Login”
You’ll be directed to your My
Account screen showing your customer information.
If you want to change your password to something other than your
member number you can do it near the
bottom of the My Account screen.
Problems logging in? Please contact
Myrna, your Website Content
Manager, for help. Email Myrna at
[email protected] or call me
at 612-532-3827.
As a reminder, the SWPC Forum
section of the website is actually a different website so it requires a different
login from the main website. For information on how to log in to the Forums,
please
contact
our
Forum
Administrator
at:
[email protected]
**Please note** You must have an
email address on file with SWPC
Membership in order to log in to the
website. If you have an email
address but do not have it on file
with the Club, please contact
Eleanor or Myrna with your email
address.
Send in YOUR technical or rebuild article! Your
fellow members want to read about it. Send it to
[email protected] and attach your photos or
use the FTP site You Send It (see page i)
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Letter to the members from
Peter Lubig, outgoing president
Dear Members of the Short Wing
Piper Club
I would like to take this opportunity
to thank everyone who has supported
me in the position of President of the
Club from July 2011 to July 2013.
During this time period as President it
has been a great honour to serve as
your elected leader. During this time
period the Club has achieved great
strides in advancing the awareness of
both the members of the Club and of
those folks who are not.
I strongly believe that the Board
that served during this period was
very supportive and engaged in developing not only new ideas and goals
but also reviewing past dealings of the
Club. Major topics would include anything and everything from A to Z.
This Board that was supporting you as
a member during this time went above
and beyond. They were Kurt Selbert,
Kaaren McGlynn, Art Weisberger,
John Kobbeman, Fred Mayes, Mark
Ohlau, Andy Seligson, Adolph Svec
and of course, Larry Jenkins. These
folks worked many many hours and
helped develop a Club that was planning to achieve the increase to membership numbers of the 1990s, and in
fact perhaps exceed them.
The Board (with Kurt’s direct input
and expertise) steered the Club to have
one of the best websites online with
the help of Myrna. This site was recreated in record time; we are talking
about months and not years to deliver,
and it continues to be improved. Kurt
also worked on many other projects
that have not been made known to the
members.
Kaaren stepped in to take over from
Garry Butler as Treasurer and has
done a super job. The Club has access
to monthly evaluation of the finances
any time they wish. Kaaren has also
made strong recommendations to the
BoD needed for the club to survive in
the next few years and this BoD was
taking strong actions to succeed. The
bottom line is cutbacks and changes
have to be made to survive; the revenue from the membership dues is
lower because the number of members
has been slowly reducing. During the
past year the Board has come up with
suggestions to help costs, such as a
PDF version of the News (if you so
wished), having 4 issues per year
instead of 6 (this would have helped
the News cost to be in the black again,
and more advertising in the News and
on the website. These are just a few
ideas that were being reviewed.
Art has been helping the Club many
years and continues to do the job that
he has always done for the Club.
Fred Mayes helped to support Lew
Porter before Lew was ill and after
Adolph stepped in to help. Fred also
helped the Club (with others, Cliff
VanVleet, Dave Hedditch and Kent
O’Kelly) to invest the Club’s money
with investment professionals, which
will help the Club grow, instead of the
.5 of 1 percent of growth in past
investments. So, the Club should have
a much improved financial profile.
John and Andy were very strong in
supporting and guiding the Board with
their professional backgrounds with
any and all Board decisions.
Mark has guided the Club to great
advancements in order to have monthly meetings using the internet; this was
a very valuable tool. Mark also amended the Club’s Bylaws to reflect today’s
needs of the Club and unfortunately
this was voted down at the past
Members meeting. The changes would
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have brought the Club to 2013 standards.
It is interesting to note that 5 of the
Board members were either retired or
currently employed as Professional
Pilots. As a result the Club had the
benefit of drawing from their experience levels.
We as a Board made all decisions as
a group and voted on each subject.
One subject was the Chapters; as a
Club we need the Chapters for their
support. Previously we had listed inactive chapters, and many of these inactive Chapters were adopted by neighbouring Chapters to help. This redirection of the inactive Chapters is working great and we had support with
everyone in the Club to help. For
example in record time - two days - a
NEW California chapter was created
and started to be organized, and since
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then has grown to be successful and is
well on its way to becoming a strong
representative chapter for the Club.
During the past couple of years I
have noticed that the Club has members who volunteer regularly, and this
is great; however the past election for
the President’s position resulted in
rather poor participation, when only
122 members cast a vote. I realize that
it is your prerogative to elect to vote or
not; however this Club represents you
and your Short Wing investment. The
Club can make a difference for you
and I personally would like to invite
you as a member to consider being
more involved. I’m sure mailing a simple ballot form is not that demanding
considering what you do to keep your
plane in the air. These past votes represent less than 10 percent of the membership population. In order for the
Club to survive and be strong, we need
your support. Please be more active.
In closing, I wish the Club success
and I have enjoyed the position as your
President. This position enabled me to
explore new ideas and concepts for the
Club to gain new energy and be more
successful.
Thank you to all for your support
and I look forward to seeing you at
your local airport.
Peter Lubig
Past President
SWPC 2011-2013
Four members awarded prizes
in the SWMIP drawing
The drawing for prizes in the club’s
Short Wing Membership Improvement
Program (SWMIP), in which members
were challenged to sponsor a new
member (or in some cases a member
whose membership had been lapsed
for several years), has been made.
Both the new member and the sponsor
were entered in separate drawings.
Peter Lubig (who originated the
challenge and collected the prizes) was
the most active sponsor, having sponsored eight new members. He is quick
to point out that his wife, Bonnie, did
the drawing --- not him.
Winners of the Storm Force tie
downs are Fred Mayes (who sponsored new member Mark Parent) and
Thomas Render, new member sponsored by Gilbert Pierce.
Winners of the Dynon D1 are
Peter Lubig (sponsor of new mem-
bers Scott and Donna Law, Terry
Endsley, James McCloud, Matt Reed,
John Atkinson, Troy Hamon, and Paul
Gagnon) and Sandra Hatley, new
member sponsored by Tom Shafer.
Congratulations to the winners and
thanks to all those who participated.
Other new members and their sponsors
were Rickey Gilmer, sponsored by
Mike Rigg, Jim and Karen Bull, sponsored by Lou Reinkens and Connie
Stevens; Richard Horlings, sponsored
by Jeff Hopson; Greg Toste, sponsored
by Phil Haupt; Eddie Trimmer, sponsored by Eleanor Mills; Daniel Tayles,
sponsored by Shane Cockriell; Gary
Wimberly, winner of a drawing at Sun
‘n Fun; Ellie and Ed Block, sponsored
by Paul Watts; Gustov Zelinski, sponsored by Marc Stewart; Joseph
Oldham, sponsored by Kurt Selbert;
Mark and Cynthia Currie, sponsored
by Jim Kirkendall; Tom Stewart, sponsored by Marc Stewart; Norman
Radtke, sponsored by Chuck Yost, and
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Zach Evans, sponsored by Sidney and
Joanne Evans.
Website Update
Waste of time?
Or worth it?
By Myrna CG Mibus
SWPC Website Content Manager
[email protected]
We’re back from Short Wings Over
Saratoga where my family had a fine
time hanging out with members of our
own family (my niece who lives in
upstate New York visited with us for a
day) and members of our Short Wing
Family. Thanks again to Andy
Seligson and members of the
Northeast Chapter who put on a great
convention in a lovely city. Saratoga
Springs is well worth a visit!
I’m happy to report that during the
convention we posted convention
news and happenings on the website
each day! I was able to help a couple
of people log in to the site who had not
been able to before and people had
many positive comments.
You know what, though? I also
heard rumblings that some think revising the website was a waste of time.
Well, that doesn’t make me feel great,
especially since I have volunteered
hundreds of hours on the project since
last Fall, but people are entitled to their
opinions. Still, I hope to point out a
number of reasons that I believe, and
others have told me, make our website
Worth It!
Here are some exciting new things
that are on our SWPC Website:
*A listing of Hall of Honor winners
(including newly inducted members
George and Tyke Klitsch)
*Highlights of our first 25 years as a
club in our Early History Section
*SWPC Archives with information
on past conventions, presidents, scholarship recipients, plus (thanks to the
Ohio Chapter) pictures of past convention patches
*A section titled What We Fly
which includes information and spec
sheets on all Short Wing Piper types
*An active Classified Ads section
*A Club and Aviation Event
Calendar
*A Latest News section highlighting
time sensitive news (e.g., we were able
to get news out right away about the
deaths of three of our beloved Short
Wing Piper Family: Bev Jewett, Lew
Porter, and Dick Zukowitz)
*Pictures! We posted pictures during
the convention and continue to be able
to post pictures of what our members
are flying and doing
*And soon, Technical Documents
will be on the site! Now that the site is
up and running smoothly, Tom
Anderson and Ralph Gutowski are
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going through the task of organizing
our vast number of 337s, STC’s, AD’s
and other technical documents. We’re
then going to get them on the website
so members can access this important
wealth of information.
Okay, so that’s a lot of great things.
But if you are a fact sort of person,
here’s some facts for you based on site
statistics since the site went live in
March through mid-July:
*7,700 people visit our site each
month
*53 percent are new visitors each
month
*We registered 47 people for the
convention with our new online
Convention Registration form
*We’ve had $3,278 in membership
sales
*Our store sales have totaled $4,587
*We have 47 ads listed in our
Classifieds section at this moment
So, there’s some information and
some facts. I think the website is well
worth it! I hope you do, too.
Thanks to everyone who helped get
this site rebuilt and up and running. I
am so glad the Officers and Board who
were in place when I submitted the
website proposal to them said “yes.”
Special thanks to Kurt Selbert who
acted as lead project manager and
board liaison and helped me out time
and time again. Kurt spent hours on
the phone helping me design the site,
offering constructive feedback and
bailed me out when troubleshooting
issues popped up. I could not have
taken on this task without him.
Another big “thank you” goes out to
Andy Seligson who sent me great
amounts of information on Short
Wings Over Saratoga to post on the
website before and during the 2013
convention.
Club library has
many tools to loan
By Claire Karlson
Club librarian
Lovettsville, Va.
[email protected]
Those who frequent the club website, www.shortwingpiperclub.org,
will find the tools for rent under Tool
Rentals in blue on the top of the home
page. There is also a tool rental form
online.
To order tools from the Library you
can do so online at the SWPC website.
Or you can just call me at 540-8225954
or
email
me
at
[email protected] Payment for
shipping is included with rental of the
equipment. Just send the tool back to
the Library with a check to cover
expenses of shipping —- and as
always, we accept donations!
The Library’s Tools:
CABLE TENSION GAUGE
DIGITAL PROP TACH
DIGITAL SMART TOOL LEVEL
RIVET SQUEEZER- includes
SM 200 Dies 4703, 4704, 470, 4706
and M210
Jaws 1”, 2”, 3” with 4 pins
Ole Joint Jigger – (forms 37 degree
flares) no cutting holesaw in this tool
Cylinder base nut wrench- ¾ Hex,
9/16, ½, 3/8
Beading Kit- ¼”, 3/8”, ½”, 5/8”, ¾”,
1” (clamping tool and die tool)
Stabilizer tube puller
NICOPRESS Swagging tool
Punch kit without the hydraulic
driver: 31/8, 2 ¼, 1 1/8, 1”, 7/8, 13/16,
¾, 5/8, 1/2 , 9/16,
3 1/8 punch drive 1 ¼”, 1 1/16”,
Hole drill Template
Hose Fitting Assembly tool kit
Bungee tool for PA 16
Bungee tool for PA 20, 22, 15, 17
Strut Tester
Fabric Tester
Tube Benders: ¼ - 5/16; 3/16 – 3/8;
1/8, 3/14, ¼
Valve Lash Adjusting Tool
Electric Engraver
Hollow Punch 1/8 – 1 3/16
Rivet Nut Installation tool
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Hand Punch 2400 lbs round punch
dies: 3/32, 1/8, 5/32, 3/16, 7/32, ¼ &
9/32
300 X Rivet Gun
Valve Wobbler Tester- Returned
broken
Valve Lash Adjusting Tool
Flaring Tool
Letter punch
Butterfly Screw staking tool
Fuel Gauge Wrench
Flex Lite Scope
Air Hammer
Wing rotator Tool *postage is
expensive on this item.
Contact
Claire
Karlson
at:
[email protected], or call
540-822-5954.
** THESE TOOLS ARE FOR
LOAN ONLY, PLEASE REIMBURSE POSTAGE TO THE
LIBRARY, DONATIONS ARE
ALWAYS ACCEPTED.*****
SWP Educational Foundation Activities
Scholarship students
awarded $2000 each
By Larry Jenkins
Educational Foundation director
This is the edition of the SWPC
News where the winners of the Short
Wing Piper Education Foundation are
announced. All applications are thoroughly reviewed and submitted to the
SWPC Board. Each applicant has to
write a brief reason as to why he or she
should receive a scholarship, and those
who are re-applying do the same,
including their academic accomplishments from the previous school year.
The SWP Education Foundation
Scholarship Program now solely exists
because of your donations. I am happy
to report that through your financial
support, over the past year, and profit
from the SWPC Store, we had enough
donations and profit to reach our goal
for this year’s scholarship awards.
Because of the current economy, we
must all continue to do our part to support the Education Foundation, as we
did this past year, to have enough
scholarship money available for the
2014/2015 school year. I was pleased,
this past year, when the Board moved
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the long term Education Foundation
money into a better investment company, giving us a greater monetary return
on our investment money. Hopefully,
someday we can use this investment
money’s interest to once again support
our scholarship program.
Many of this year’s convention
attendees donated their raffle winnings
to the Education Foundation. My
warmest thank you to everyone who
made these winnings available. These
donations will help us get a good start
on our budget for the next school year.
Because of the number of donations,
I am unable to personally thank everyone for their donations. I remain humbled by your benevolent passion for
the SWP Education Foundation. So,
here is the best I can do, thanks to
everyone who has donated to help our
young people get assistance in acquiring their education for a career in aviation.
Congratulations to our scholarship
winners. The Board voted to award
each recipient a $2,000 scholarship:
Senior Michael Davis attending The
University of Tennessee, sponsored by
Wally Soplata
Junior Tim Cuff attending Central
Washington University, sponsored by
Dave Luse.
Junior Cody Marks attending Lewis
University, sponsored by Adolph
Svec.
Sophomore Tyler Densford attending Delta State University, sponsored
by Larry Jenkins.
Freshman Jeff Hopson attending
Georgian College, sponsored by Peter
Lubig.
PROFICIENT
PILOT
Back again!
By Lynn Jensen
E-mail: [email protected]
This is my first contribution in a
while. During the weekend before the
Thanksgiving Day holiday last
November, I woke up in the morning
at the normal, early time not feeling or
seeing things quite right. It was a
wakeup that makes cliché s true; it
changed life in general and flying life
in particular forever.
I’ll not dwell on the specifics here.
It’s not that I mind discussing them,
because I don’t. It’s just that describing them is not particularly meaningful
to this effort, except in one way. The
health event itself and some lingering
effects, especially a vision loss to my
right side, do keep me from having an
aviation medical certificate now. That
fact alone, not being able to fly as
pilot-in-command (and I do know
about the light sport thing), had made
me wonder if I can contribute with the
relevance I have felt in the past.
But I have flown an airplane with a
pilot friend recently, and it still works.
And the lingering effects, including
the worst of them, are noticeably healing and continuing to get better, and I
still know what I used to know, so here
it is. I know Eleanor mentioned a couple of issues ago about my absence and
thoughts for the future participation. I
do want to specifically say thank you
to Eleanor for her kind communication
and understanding consideration during the past several months. I expect
that thought rightfully should extend
to all the SWPC leadership, as well. It
has meant a lot to me, and I know that
focus has helped with my progress.
Since I have been away from the
flow of things aviation for a while, I
thought I would review some accident
and incident data involving the Short
Wing types. In this article I have identified some Short Wing mishaps
described in the NTSB accident database, with the intent of learning some
lessons from the events described by
the NTSB. As always, I have deleted
certain specific details to minimize the
identification of individuals; personal
identification here is not my point. By
my observation, there were five Short
Wing mishaps in the database between
January 1 and July 1, 2013, and portions of the narrative reports of those
accidents and incidents follow:
1. The pilot reported that he had
landed his wheel-equipped airplane on
the plowed surface of an ice runway
and was taxiing when he lost directional control. The airplane impacted a
snow bank on the edge of the runway.
The airplane’s nose gear collapsed and
the engine mount and forward fuselage
were substantially damaged. The pilot
reported that there were no pre-impact
mechanical malfunctions or failures.
The aircraft was reported to be a PA22-135.
My comment: This is still a preliminary report, and there is not an official
final conclusion. I would wonder
about “distracted driving” as a contributing factor, though. It does not
take much of a lapse to cause a lot of
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grief, even if we have gotten away
with it many times before.
2. The pilot reported that he overflew the turf airstrip and observed the
windsock, which indicated little to no
wind. While on short final, and beyond
the point to accomplish a safe goaround, he realized that he was landing
with a tailwind. He also had to add
power to avoid several deer that
emerged from the trees and were on
the runway. He continued the landing
and after touchdown, he applied heavy
braking in an attempt to prevent the
airplane from overrunning the runway.
The airplane subsequently nosed over
and came to rest inverted. The vertical
stabilizer, the rudder, and the top of
both wings sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported no pre-impact
mechanical malfunctions or failures
with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The airplane
was reported to be a PA-22-150.
The NTSB has issued the following
probable cause determination concerning this accident: The pilot’s use of
excessive braking after landing with a
tailwind and after an extended touchdown to avoid deer on the runway.
My comment: While the NTSB has
made a statement of the probable
cause, we can take away from the circumstances described by the pilot that
there might have been several points
and circumstances that could have
been reevaluated prior to concluding
that a go-around was not possible. We
were not there, of course, but it is
worth thinking about.
3. The pilot was landing his tail
wheel-equipped airplane at a 1,400foot-long remote airstrip located on a
frozen snow-covered lake. The surface
of the airstrip appeared to be hard
compacted snow with a turn-around at
the south end of the airstrip. Before
beginning the approach he determined
a touchdown point in the turn-around
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area to afford maximum use of the
landing surface. After touchdown the
main wheels sank into the soft snow,
and the airplane nosed over resulting
in substantial damage to the rudder, lift
struts and wings. Upon exiting the airplane, the pilot realized that the turnaround area was loose soft snow that
had not been compacted. The pilot
indicated there were no pre-accident
mechanical malfunctions or anomalies
that would have precluded normal
operation. The airplane was reported
to be a PA-16.
The NTSB has issued the following
probable cause determination concerning this accident: The pilot’s decision
to land on unsuitable terrain.
My comment: Aeronautical decision-making is an important focus area
in any approach to accident prevention. The NTSB statement is simple
and very pointed, and it is up to the rest
of us to make sure we apply it to every
circumstance in which we find ourselves.
Not everything reported by the
NTSB is presented here, and I hope
everyone takes time to review mishap
data from time-to-time, whether it is
from the NTSB, commercial publications, or the personal stories of others.
It’s a great learning resource for safety.
Safe flying…
(Editor’s note: Welcome back,
Lynn!)
From Your Chapter Coordinator
I can’t do this!
By Adolph Svec
Chapter Coordinator
[email protected]
Do you remember working with
your dad and his admonishing you
with “If you don’t know what you’re
doing, don’t touch it!” or “If it won’t
turn, don’t force it!”.....?? Could it be
that in some way, his advice has
impacted how we deal (or don’t deal)
with computers and other devices of
magic?
We are amazed at how adept our
grandkids are with the “magic things,”
as they push buttons as if every entry
were part of a “911” call. They have
no concern for pressing the wrong button and having something disappear
forever. Yet this writer, with fingers
big enough to press at least two keys at
once, is a bit intimidated by the wonderment of it all.
Listening to the radio and the steady
bombardment of commercials, one
finds that repetition is the key to getting the message out. Several years
ago, phone numbers were given out
once, or maybe twice. Not walking
around with a pencil and paper in my
pocket it always seemed a bit silly to
depend upon that minimal information
to stick in my memory. Many ads now
give a number four or five times; this
is helpful. And that goes for learning
anything. Repetition works. Short
term memory loss doesn’t enhance
ones ability to learn new things,....but
it can, and does happen. However,
even young folks have trouble remembering things. Do you recall mom saying “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told
you a hundred times, don’t
……………………………!”(Fill in
the blank and make it longer as need-
ed.)
Years ago, when my school district
required every employee to take a
seminar in using the email system, I
dug in my heels, as there was no need
for such a frivolous thing. There was
no need for it before, ..... why now?
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Kicking and screaming, I sat with
Short Wing Pete through a seminar.
For sure, he rolled his eyes at times
and I probably did too.
Being told that I could send an email
anywhere in the world, did get my
attention, however. Having five kids
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scattered over the country and one stationed in Spain with the U.S. Navy, the
potential soon took on new meaning.
When Short Wing Pete and I worked
the SWPC Store, “talking” via email
with customers in Canada, Brazil,
Germany, England, Australia, etc.
became more than nice; it was a necessity......a business tool to say the least.
If there are youngsters in your life,
and you are not too computer savvy,
ask them to help you with some of the
things that are giving you trouble. Not
only are they good at many things,
they often are very good and patient
instructors. Their being able to help an
adult is a real treat for them as it is usually just the opposite. Jotting down
some notes is helpful too, as long as
those can be accessed when needed.
Challenge yourself to look at the
SWPC website to see what is available. You’ll need to enter our URL,
which is www.shortwingpiperclub.org.
At some point you will need to “log
in” with a User Name and Password.
On your first log-in, your user name
will be your email address and your
password will be your member number. You can change your password if
you want to, but your user name will
always be your email address. When
you have decided what your password
will be, “WRITE YOUR USER
NAME AND PASSWORD DOWN
and POST WHERE THEY CAN BE
FOUND.” Use a sticky note and put it
on the computer. Write it on a SWPN.
Tattoos, though readily available, are
not a good option as user names and
passwords sometimes need changing.
Make a point of checking your email
and visiting the SWPC website, frequently. It’s a good review and the
information found is apt to be more
current and useful.
When all this “modern stuff” gives
you fits and you’re ready to resign
from all things electronic, remember
that you are a pilot. You have accomplished something most people
haven’t, and that many would have
difficulty doing; it was demanding,
and complicated. Jump in with both
feet with the thought of mastering
some of the modern marvels out there.
Call your grandkids or ask a neighborhood youngster for assistance. You
will find some really interesting stuff.
“Hello Myrna,...this is Short Wing
Pete. I’ve decided to pitch the two tin
cans and string, though I still find them
more than adequate. BTW, if you have
a chance, take a look at the latest
YouTube I’ve posted. LOL”
TTYL,
SWP <G>
P.S. URL - (Universal Resource
Locator), BTW - (by the way), LOL (laughing out loud), TTYL - (talk to
you later), <G> - (grin), SWP (your
turn...)
:^)
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Regional chapter reports
Editor’s note
to all chapters:
We do like to have your photos --- properly identified, of course. So
send them in, but do remember to attach them separately. (On my program it says “insert” but who knows what it says on yours.)
It’s nice if they are at least 4 inches wide and a high resolution, if possible --- I hate to reduce a big crowd to a 2-inch space since you’d need a
magnifying glass to see the people properly.
You can use the club’s new photo transfer site to send in high resolution photos. We’d also like you to send a high resolution copy of your
chapter logo.
To use the photo transfer site, go to
https://www.yousendit.com/dropbox?dropbox=ShortWingPiperNews.
By Jim Thames,
Chapter Vice President, and
Linda Cochran,
Chapter Treasurer
June’s fly-in to Sonoma Skypark
found us dealing with what seemed
like near-record temperatures, but
Short Wingers still made their presence known. Thank yous go out to
Ron Price for being back in town to
open his hangar up so we might see his
and his partners’ Vagabond as well as
tending the grill for lunch. Great job,
Ron (and your helpers), with the burgers and hot dogs. Yum.
Joining us at Skypark were Joseph
Oldham, Colleen McKeage, Mark
Ohlau, Kurt Selbert, Debbie and Mike
Smith, Jim Thames and Linda
Cochran. Betty Salcedo missed com-
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Above is Ron Price’s yellow Vag in his hangar at Sonoma
Skypark. Below are Joseph Oldham’s yellow Vag and Kurt Selbert’s
white with red Colt.
ing because of a family illness. Deb
and Eric Presten also missed being
there due to the passing of Deb’s mother. Best wishes go out to both of these
families.
With so many scheduling conflicts
for our members, we decided to postpone our July fly-out. We hope you
were able to attend some of the July
events,
including
the
SWPC
Convention and AirVenture Oshkosh.
In September we make our way
back to southern California. Rick
Lach has invited us to join him at Kern
Valley Airport (L05). We are making
plans for the weekend of September
21-22. Rick says this is also the weekend that students from the Aviation
Department at Mt. San Antonio
College will be there. This is a great
opportunity to share airplane stories
and talk about our Short Wings with
some of the younger people making
their way into a career in aviation.
There is a wonderful camping area
near the Kern River, and we hope to
have Rick speak to our group about his
work with the RAF (Recreational
Aviation Foundation) on Saturday. We
will also be scheduling flour bombing,
spot landing and short landing contests. More information on the airport
can be found at www.kernvalleyairport.com.
October 5-6 will take the California
Short Wings to the California Capital
Airshow at Mather Field (KMHR) in
Sacramento. We are working with the
event coordinator for an area designated for Short Wings, so please let us
know if you plan on attending. More
information about the airshow can be
found at www.californiacapitalairshow.com.
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Chapter president Mark Ohlau lends a helping hand to Joseph
Oldham in his Vagabond as he was preparing to leave. This was in
June. In July, Mark was one of the convention-goers who attended
Bill Natale’s seminar on hand propping a Short Wing.
As a point of clarification, please
note that all convention planning is
being coordinated by the SMX 2013
Convention Committee of Connie
Stevens, Lou Reinkens and Joe
Cronan, not the California Chapter.
Questions or requests regarding the
convention should be directed to them.
Be sure to visit the California
Chapter at www..shortwingpiperclub.org or follow the California
Chapter on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/377938965626527.
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By Iris Morris
Plant City, Fla.
[email protected]
On May 4th, BLACKWATER
CREEK AIRPARK was the site of our
last meeting until October. We are
scheduled to have that meeting at
Blackwater but have gotten the following message from Chris and Teri
Sutton:
Good Sunday Morning,
Teri And I were at Blackwater Creek
Airport for the BBQ yesterday. At that
time we found out that the BBQ was
canceled and this event will not be
continued.
The manager of the airport who does
the cooking, wish I could remember
his name, has broken a couple ribs
while working with the tractor. I have
no news further on that but I did hear
that it happened last week. Also the
revenues have not covered the expenses of the meal.
All else is well, Teri is volunteering
at the hospital, working at it harder
than if it was a job and I am really
pleased with my tasks at the Academy.
Chris n Teri
We will keep you posted on future
fly-ins.
At the May 4 meeting, we discussed
having our Chapter logo on shirts. This
project is still in the planning stage.
We hope to “make it fly.”
Chapter member Chris Sutton is
instructing at the National Aviation
Academy, in Clearwater. He asked
several of his students attend our meeting to help them to get involved with
local aviation people and events. We
welcome them to attend any of our
meetings. Thank you, Chris. His students were: Chris Turaniczo, Vega,
Austin Flowers, Leah Mull and Nate
Ahrendt.
Our members were: Lee and Jean
Houseknect, George and Tyke Klitsch,
Chris and Teri Sutton, Billy
Henderson, Lou Cimorelli , Julian
Cannon, Clyde O’Donnell and Iris
Convention story
By Iris Morris
JULY 1, 2013 MONDAY MORNING, Panic, have I forgotten anything,
will my ‘carry-on’ pass security…?
Will we get to TIA by 0500 …..? We
did, only to see what looked like more
people than a plane could carry. Will
we get through security in time for our
0645 take-off?
Going through
Security sure was much easier than
the last time I flew, two years ago.
Although just as through, everyone
was more pleasant and helpful. This
was true at Baltimore and Albany.
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Chris and Teri Sutton are shown above with their almost readyto-fly Vagabond at Zephyrhills. Below is new members Peter and
Penny Thompson’s red Pacer.
On arriving at Albany, George and
Tyke Klitsch and I got the rental car
and drove north the about 40 miles to
Saratoga Springs. On arriving at the
Holiday Inn, we immediately started
meeting old friends. Our SWPC
Conventions are like a family reunion
but it seems like the main reason that
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Florida chapter president George Klitsch at the maritime museum
we go is to eat. After dinner, “Where
for breakfast”, after breakfast, “Where
for lunch” and so on.
We had the pleasure of having two
very early Club members with us. Bob
Fuller, SWPC Member # 1, one of the
founders and first President, and
Lonnie McLaughlin, early member
and officer. Two other early members
were Jim Freeman and Iris Morris
(#64). There were probably more but
we aren’t sure who they are.
On Tuesday, George, Tyke and I
drove about 90 miles north to Basin
Harbor, Vt., to the Lake Champlain
Marine Museum. This museum is
mostly about The Revolutionary War
and The War of 1812 and the battles,
etc., on the Lake. Very interesting and
informative.
On Wednesday evening, we took the
Lake George Dinner Cruise. This was
a very delightful evening. During buffet, there was live music, dancing and
lots of visiting.
At the Awards Banquet on Thursday
night, George and Tyke Klitsch were
inducted into the “Honor Roll.”
Congratulations —- you both deserve
it!!
The guest speaker was Troy Hamon,
who showed pictures of his trip to
Alaska, that are in his book, saying
“Changes, Delays, Inevitable with
flight, so may as well get used it.”
CONNIE
STEVENS,
SWPC PRESIDENT
NEW
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This is the year for election of
SWPC President. Connie Stevens,
from Homewood, Calif., has been
elected to the position. For her Bio.,
see page 19 in the March-April 2013
issue of The Short Wing Piper News.
Congratulations, Connie, and may all
our members back you and help you
continue the growth of our Club.
To Peter Lubig, the officers and
board members, we thank you for your
work and loyalty for the SWPC.
For several years, the Florida
Chapter has given four envelopes with
$25.00 in each, as gifts. Butch
Prillwitz of Appleton, Wisc., of the
North Central Chapter, won one of
these. Two were won at the banquet
and immediately given to Larry
Jenkins for the Education Foundation.
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We want to thank the Northeast
Chapter President, Andy Seligson, and
all their members for this excellent
Convention.
CONVENTION
The 2014 Convention will be held at
Santa Maria California, set for June
22-27, 2014. (See page 23 in the
March-April 2013 SWP News.)
2014 SWPC INTERNATIONAL
Longhorn (Texas) Chapter
By Ellie Block
Chapter Newsletter Editor
Aransas Pass, Texas
[email protected]
Last meeting, May 25th, Ranger
Airfield/ Driftwood: Weathered out,
but . . . .
Ed and I drove to Ranger (weather
was too iffy to fly) on Friday and were
greeted at the airfield with a BIG surprise. Although there were only two
small planes, with pup tents set up, and
a small helicopter, there sat on the
grass a DC-3 N47 in military green. I
started taking pictures immediately
and Ed started asking questions.
We were introduced to Emmitt
Tesch, who jumped out of a larger airplane (C-46) on D-Day. At 92 he is
quite spry and insisted on giving us his
last book. He authographed it for us
also. Scott Glover was the pilot/owner
of the DE-3 and said this is one of the
few that have complete logs, right
down to who jumped out and when.
Scott was headed to Sweetwater and
the WASP Reunion but stopped in for
a hamburger in Ranger first. We also
talked to the “official” photographer,
Dennis Price, [email protected].
He gave us a disc of last year’s Ranger
Fly-in and I will share some of these
pictures at another time. We watched
one other airplane fly in, then went on
to Eastland to check into the hotel.
Later that afternoon, a major storm
moved in with lightning and a lot of
wind. We even had to be moved to
another room when we got a ceiling
leak. Also, a bad wreck had shut down
both sides of IH-20 at Ranger Hill.
The next morning, conditions were
dry, but with low clouds and more
expected rain. We went to Ranger
Airfield to see what was happening.
Barbecue was cooking and all the side
dishes were ready. But only a couple
more airplanes flew in. We decided to
go back to the ranch and called Paul
and Gloria Watts to see if any SWPC
members were headed to Ranger. We
were invited to Driftwood and had a
great visit with them. We viewed
Paul’s Tri-Pacer project and farm
equipment before heading back. So I
guess we had a four SWPC member
meeting.
BTW, Jared has done a great job on
the Ranger airfield – the new grass
looks great! They did a mini-airshow
on Saturday and had a few more airplanes fly in. One of Jared’s last comments was, “Maybe I need to think
about doing this in October next year!”
See http://rangerairfield.org/ for more
information.
June 29, Cleburne Municipal
Airport (CPT)
By Art McLemore
Chapter President
[email protected]
There was a very good turnout of
airplanes at Cleburne Saturday for the
fifth Saturday pancake fly-in. There
just were not many Short Wings! Jim
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At Cleburne were Bill Scott’s N2957P white and red Tri-Pacer
(above), Hunter and Glad Ludwig’s N695DB (red with white Pacer at
right below) and Art McLemore and Dan Slemmons’ red white and
blue Clipper (at left below).
Putney, Bill Scott, Hunter and Glad
Ludwig, and Art McLemore and Dan
Slemmons flew in.
The consensus was that July was
too hot and it is the month of Oshkosh
and
Saratoga,
NY
(SWPC
Convention) and we would adjourn
until the August Cleburne fifth
Saturday event.
Upcoming events:
Sept. 14, chapter meeting,
Driftwood (XA86), Paul and Gloria
Watts
Oct. 4-5, Ranger Airfield (F23),
85th anniversary airshow
Oct. 5: Chapter meeting, Block
Ranch fly-in, swim, fish, hike, picnic
(TX78)
Oct. 10-12th, AOPA Summit, Fort
Worth (FTW) and Ft. Worth
Convention Center
Oct. 11-13, Texas Antique
Airplanes Fall Festival of Flight
Oct. 12-13, CAF air show, Midland,
Texas (MAF)
Oct. 19-20, Ft. Worth Alliance Air
Show (AFW)
Nov. 2, Georgetown AirFest 4, 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. (GTU)
Nov. chapter meeting, open
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Dec. chapter meeting, Christmas
Party, Outback Restaurant, Burleson,
Texas (FWX) or ?? Make suggestions
Oregon and
Washington
Editor’s note: I’m sorry this is
out of order. Blame it on post-convention issue stress!
By Brian McGlynn
Chapter President
[email protected]
A small but mighty group of
Columbia River Chapter members met
at the Prosser, Washington airport
(S40) on Saturday, July 20th. The meeting was in conjunction
with the Prosser Airport Days and
Wine Festival. Although it was Hot!
(112 degres F. on one thermometer!)
we still had a good time. Members
and guests met under the awnings provided by EAA chapter 1466 who also
served the lunch, dinner (delicious
salmon with trimmings or taco salad)
on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday.
During the meeting, a report on the
convention was given by Peter Jeffs
who was the sole chapter attendee (or
so we believe). Peter was also the
only current member to fly a Short
Wing Piper to the meeting. He flies a
1961 Colt and comes from Baker City,
Oregon..
We were joined by John Petty
(national SWPC member) who flew
his 1953 PA-22 in from his private
strip. A unique feature of his TriPacer is the Tarver (formerly Koppers)
Aeromatic
propeller. Sometimes
known as the “propeller with a brain,”
this propeller automatically adjusts
pitch based on propeller blade angle
Peter Jeffs with his 1961 Colt
At the meeting (left to right)
are Kaaren McGlynn, F.J.
Blahut, John Petty, Peter Jeffs,
Ben Rasch, and Brian McGlynn.
and engine RPM. His has a beautiful
wood finish.
Brian and Kaaren McGlynn flew
in from Independence, Ore., in their
1976 Cessna 150. They will be working hard to get their 1960 Tri-Pacer
ready to fly to next year’s convention.
There was also an Ercoupe fly in withat least 6 of the twin tailed planes in
attendance. We are very grateful to Alan Walker
of Prosser who provided transportation
into town for us and gave us a short
tour of Prosser. This is a growing
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wine producing area; they are well
known for their product.
Kansas and
Missouri
By Dan Miller
Chapter newsletter editor
May Meeting
David Taylor met us at the Mexico,
Mo., airport office. When my son and
I arrived after flying from Grain
Valley, there wasn’t a single Piper aircraft on the ramp. Lots of Cessnas,
though. Since we arrived in a Cessna,
we felt right at home.
Bill and Jean Maxwell and Fred and
Bonnie Mayes had driven their cars
and were already there. Bruce Gatton
and Travis Hayes had flown a Cessna
172 in from New-Century Airport. It
wasn’t long before Conni and John
Beck arrived in their Tri-Pacer from
Newton, Iowa, followed later by
Frank Sperandeo in Miss Pearl.
David was the consummate host.
He, Fred, and Jean loaded everyone in
their cars and transported us to Porky’s
Bar-B-Que. The meal was wonderful
and quite filling. David surprised us
all with picking up the tab for everyone. Thank you, David! It was a
noble gesture that we all appreciated.
After an hour of visiting and enjoying our meal, we all returned to the airport conference room to conduct our
meeting. The Mexico airport office is
a lovely building and the accommoda-
tions were quite nice.
The meeting started at 1:20 with
eight members and four visitors present. The first order of business was the
election of officers. There were quite
a few suggestions on how this should
be done and who might be nominated
for the open positions.
After much discussion, the following positions were filled:
President – Fred Mayes
Vice-President – Frank Sperandeo
Treasurer – Bill Lynch
Secretary/Newsletter Editor – Dan
Miller
Historian – Bill Maxwell
Some suggestions for future flyouts
were brought up. Fred said there is a
nice restaurant in Miller, Mo., that we
need to try out in August. We also are
going to try the Ivory Grille in the
Hotel Bothwell at Sedalia, Mo., on
September 14.
Other business that was discussed
was the National Convention in 2015
as well as current issues of the
National SWPC such as the
Scholarship Fund, National SWPC
Elections, webpage, newsbook publication, and some other matters affecting the club.
At 3:00 pm we all adjourned and
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prepared for departure. The weather
had become cloudy and overcast. We
had a nice tailwind for the first 10 minutes and then it just died. Our airspeed
went from 142mph to 120mph according to the GPS.
June Meeting
Springdale, AR
June 8, 2013
By Bonnie Mayes
Mid-America Chapter met June 8 at
Springdale, Ark. In attendance were
Bill Lynch, Sid Brain, Frank
Sperandeo, Eleanor Mills, Fred and
Bonnie Mayes. Bill and Sid flew in
and the rest drove. We had lunch at
AQ Chicken in Springdale.
Fred, Eleanor, Bonnie, Bill and
Teresa and Frank went to Branson last
month to check out possible locations
for the 2015 Convention in Branson.
They checked out Radisson, Clarion
and several others. At that time everyone thought the Radisson was the best
choice. However, we did not have time
to go to Lodge of the Ozarks. Fred.
Bonnie, Eleanor, Sid and Sue Brain
checked out Lodge of the Ozarks later
and decided it was our best bet. We
voted at our meeting to place a bid for
the 2015 Convention in Branson at the
National Convention in New York.
Eleanor is to get a list of jobs
required to put on a convention. We all
agreed we will need lots of help from
other persons who have put on a convention.
No chapter meeting was held in July
due to the National Convention.
Post Convention news
By Dan Miller
The National Convention is now
over and several of our members
attended. Sid and Sue Brain, Fred
Mayes, Eleanor Mills, Frank
Sperandeo, and Bill and Teresa Lynch
presented the proposal for the 2015
National Convention to be at Branson,
Mo. The proposal was accepted by the
national club, so we are on the hook
for a fantastic convention in two years.
We will need lots of help and ideas.
We would like this to be a convention
the club will talk about for years as one
of the best. We have a great venue, airport, and accommodations.
All we need is personnel and ideas.
Meetings remaining on the schedule:
Sept. 14, Sedalia, Mo.
Oct. 12, Springfield, Mo.
Nov. 9, Gaston’s Resort, in Arkansas
Dec. 7, Christmas party, TBD
North Central
By Myrna Mibus
[email protected]
We have a new president, Tim
McDaniel. We still need someone to
step up and be our VP and it sure
would be helpful if someone could
take over the newsletter duties as well.
Please let Tim know via email
([email protected]) if you can help
or feel free to reply to this email and
let me know.
Myrna CG Mibus
PA22/20-160, N2544P
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Northeastern
Pennsylvania, northern
New Jersey, New York,
Connecticut,
Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Maine (and
somewhere in there, the
site of our 2013 convention!
By Andy Seligson
Chapter President
[email protected]
In 1993, the Northeast Chapter of
the Short Wing Piper Club hosted the
organization’s convention at the
Nevele Resort in the Catskill
Mountains of New York. It was a huge
success, in spite of the weather. About
three years ago, then President Franco
Sperandeo called with a plea for us to
possibly host another convention. We
took the bait.
In spite of the weather and economy,
our Shortwings over Saratoga
Convention was another huge success!
By the time the fireworks went off
after our closing banquet on July 4, we
had about 115 people in attendance.
While we expected about 40 planes,
the weather kept it to 15 arrivals. At
least one, the Weidner family from
Illinoise, was IFR in their Twin
Comanche.
First kuddo has to go to Rico
Cannone for pushing to have this convention in Saratoga. Like he said,
along with the Saratoga Visitor’s
Bureau, Saratoga has it all! Despite the
weather (you’ll hear this a lot), the
people had plenty to do and see.
At first, Rico was worried that it
would be him and me doing all the
work to put on this convention. You
folks really stepped up to the plate and
helped contribute to a real classy
affair! In no special order, Tom and
Amber McKernan, David and Pat
Adams,
Mike
and
Margaret
Archambault, Dale Prividera, Bill
Natale, Jim Hurd, Melissa Schipul,
and Basil Dobush helped Rico and me
do the Northeast Chapter proud.
Vickie Brown, the sales manager at
the Holiday Inn, couldn’t have been
more accommodating. The hotel went
out of their way to ensure that all went
off perfectly. The trip to the Saratoga
Battlefield and the Lake George
Dinner Cruise were among the highlights of the week. The weather actually permitted us to have the poker run,
although we had to scrap using
Garnsey’s due to the abundance of
rain. Bill Natale did a seminar on hand
propping that was well received. Our
seminar on 337s and STC’s had to be
changed, because FAA’s Alan Miller
had to cancel due to family problems.
Tom Anderson showed a video of his
trip to Antarctica instead.
We were able to raise more than
$1500 for the SWPC Scholarship Fund
through our raffles for door prizes. Our
chapter gained several new members
from the convention. John Watkins,
Phil Hoy, and Steve McKeon joined.
Steve won the award for the best nonShort Wing Piper. He has a beautiful
experimental that is along the lines of
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Among the convention crew were (above, left to right) Mike
Archambault, Rico Cannone, Andy Seligson, and David Adams (out
at the airport), and below, Rico talks to Donna Lambert (standing),
while Dale Prividera talks to another convention-goer. The hotel dining room held lots of conversations as members found old friends
or made new ones.
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a Short Wing tail dragger. I’ll let him
explain what it is. It is beautiful.
Election results for president of the
Short Wing Piper Club were given and
the club has a new president, Connie
Stevens. Congratulations to Connie
and a big thanks to outgoing president
Peter Lubig for all his efforts to move
this club forward. As a board member,
I look forward to working to advance
the causes of this organization. We
have
been
through
several
“upheavals” in the 27 years that I’ve
been a member and have survived
them. I suspect we will weather this
“storm” and move ahead. One great
accomplishment of the past administration was the creation of a first class
website that really works! Hats off to
Myrna Mibus and Kurt Selbert for all
they’ve done.
Guest speaker Bob Fuller, SWPC
No. 1, was the speaker at the Members
Luncheon. Bob was the “founder” of
the club. It was interesting to hear how
this club came about and to see that he
is still active in his local chapter.
The keynote speaker at the banquet
was Troy Hamon. Troy spoke of buying a Tri-Pacer in the “lower 48” and
flying home to Alaska while getting
dual instruction from his brother (a
corporate jet pilot) towards his private
certificate. A most interesting tale that
culminated in a book Troy wrote —14 Days to Alaska.
It was great to see some of our “less
active” members make it to at least
The Archambaults and their
dog, Cecil, stayed in their motor
home out at the airport. Here,
Margaret and Cecil are enjoying
a morning walk.
some of this convention. Patrick
Morris and Ed and Elaine Shancey
made it to, at least, the banquet. It was
good to see you folks. These conventions are, as Art Weisberger says, a big
family reunion. It was definitely great
to see all our old friends and make
some new ones.
Safe flying to you all —- Andy
Thanks to the Northeast Chapter
for hosting a bang-up great convention ending on the 4th!
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Ohio
Buckeye
By Ralph Gutowski
Chapter Newsletter Editor
Oxford, Ohio
[email protected]
The skies were mostly cloudy across
Ohio with little if any sunshine, ceilings were improving but still marginal
because of morning fog, so it was
another “drive-in” meeting on May 18.
Seven people showed up for food and
good fellowship at the JP’s BBQ
Restaurant at Boltan Field, a few miles
southwest of Columbus, Ohio.
Attending were Tom Anderson,
Rosemarie and Ralph Gutowski, host
Jerry Isbell, Jan and Ralph Widman,
and Dr. Carl Wiley.
After eating lunch, the guys went to
a picnic table outside where Ralph
Gutowski tried to connect his iFly 720
moving map GPS to Jerry Isbell’s
Stratus ADS-B receiver. The WiFi
connection worked and the two units
shook hands, but operator error (on
Ralph’s part) actually prevented the
iFly from receiving any actual ADS-B
data. We’ll try it again another time.
Everyone then moved into the comfortable Bolton Terminal Building to
chat over a fresh cup of coffee. We all
met Carl Wiley’s “adopted daughter,”
Rita Penney, and her dog Pip. Rita
staffs the Capital City Jet Center
counter on weekends. Rita needs only
one more cross country and a night
flight to be eligible to take her private
pilot’s exam. We congratulate her and
wish her the very best.
Jerry Isbell reported that for
Oshkosh again this year Short Wing
Piper members will be able to reserve
airplane camping/parking behind the
Hangar Café . Jerry will be sending
out information about how to make the
advance reservations and I will forward it.
We also discussed the candidates
running for the SWPC presidency. No
officers were present so we did not
have an official meeting.
Our deepest sympathy to Denise
Anderson and her family at the passing
of her mother.
The counter in the FBO at
Richmond Municipal Airport has a
stack of these helpful cards. (See next
page) I picked one up and thought I
would share it in the newsletter. I am
going to make up my own card with
the correct info for my airplane (my
transponder has push-buttons and my
normal RPM is lower) and print it in a
larger font, then laminate it for nonpilot right-seaters.
They also publish a free “Weather
Scripture Reference for Pilots,”
http://pilotsforchrist.org.
June meeting report
The weather was MVR with marginal visibilities in parts of Ohio, but not
along the route from Marysville to
Richard Downing Airport near
Coshocton. So Dean Dayton made the
short flight with a friend. He reported
that no one else showed up for the
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The Pinch
meeting, but the food wagon on the
airport was doing a fine job of serving
up burgers and fries with all the trimmings.
Farewell, Dick!
On June 13, nine chapter members
attended a memorial service for Dick
Zukowitz at his home church, St.
John’s Lutheran Church in Ingomar,
Ohio. Chapter members present were
the Andersons, Jim Beisner, the
Daytons, the Gutowskis, and the
Widmans. The church was filled with
family, friends, and former business
associates.
Pastor Laura Cavendish gave a moving eulogy that honored all facets of
Dick’s life. Following the liturgical
Hitter Card
memorial service, people adjourned ot
the church’s fellowship hall for a generous home-cooked meal prepared by
the women of the church. (It brought
back memories of “The Church
Basement Ladies” play we all enjoyed
at the 2010 convention.)
Afterwards, remembrances of Dick
were shared by several people. Dick’s
son-in-law, Mark McKinley, finally
got to tell the story about Dick’s “skillful” landing in Alexandria, Minn., on
the way to Alaska —- Dick made
Mark promise he would never tell the
story in front of Nancy until he was
dead and gone, so Mark spilled the
beans. Ralph Gutowski remembered
Dick for the gorgeous trophies Dick
hand-crafted out of cherry and buck-
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At the meeting in Bolton are (left to right) Carl Riley, Rita Penney
and her dog Pip, Jan and Ralph Widman, Rosemarie Gutowski, Jerry
Isbell, and Tom Anderson. (Ralph Gutowski was taking the photo.)
eye wood for the 1998 SWPC convention; for all the nifty wooden clocks,
pens, and widgets he made and gave as
door prizes at our meetings; the times
Dick served as an airplane judge at
SWPC conventions; and the time Dick
lost the key to his airplane at
International Peace Garden on the
flight to Alaska. Grand-daughter Sarah
gave remembrances of learning how to
drive a car with Grandpa Dick —- she
wasn’t allowed on the road, so he took
her driving on the front lawn. (See also
Ralph Widman’s story about Dick in
the next issue.)
Dick has now taken his leave from
us in person —- his “final flight” as we
aviators say —- but Dick will continue
to live on in the hearts and minds of all
who knew him. Although Dick’s
accomplishments were numerous and
lasting, we will miss him more for the
warm and caring person he was and
because he always touched out lives
for the best.
Reflecting on Dick’s passion for
flight and his departure from this life,
both Pastor Cavendish and Ralph
Gutowski shared that perhaps the second stanza of John Magee’s poem,
“High Flight,” comes close to describing Dick’s final and HIGHEST flight:
Up, up the long delirious burning
blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights
with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew
—And, while with silent, lifting mind
I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of
space,
Put out my hand, and touched the
face of God.
(Editor’s note: Those members who
would like to send a note of condolence to the family —- Nancy, daughter Carol, son-in-law Mark, and grand-
daughter Sarah —- Nancy’s address is:
1035
Enterprise
Road,
West
Alexandria, OH 45381.)
2013 Meeting Schedule
Sept. 14, Saturday, Huffman Farm
Apt (40H8), Archbold, OH, Chuck
Lawrence’s strip
Oct. 12 or 13, Middletown Regional
Airport (KMWO), Andersons hosting
Nov. 3, Sunday, Schulze’s annual
chili fest (69O1)?
December, Christmas party
Got Juice?
One of our members told me recently that he has been having dead battery
issues lately. You know how the story
goes: You get all “amped up” to fly
somewhere, make a flight plane, check
the weather, grab your flight gear bag,
drive to the airport, pre-flight, load the
airplane, pull it out of the hangar . . .
DEAD BATTERY! It’s as much of a
risk in the summer as it is in winter; it
can happen any time.
First, assure yourself that the battery
itself was not installed personally by
Bill Piper in Lock Haven, i.e., is not
worn out because of age. Next, are the
electrical system and charging circuits
working properly? But also consider
that advancements in avionics have
improved aircraft safety and our abilities to navigate, but they do come with
a cost. Today’s equipment often
includes memory circuits to save and
store frequencies for easy recall and
use. This causes a parasitic drag on the
electrical system that ultimately drains
battery life in aircraft that are not
flown on a regular basis.
In response, some aircraft owners
put their batteries on chargers when
the aircraft is not in service. Others
insist on using a battery minder or tender to trickle charge their batteries. In
fact, one battery manufacturer told me
at an A&P-IA seminar that his compa-
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ny recommends ONLY the Battery
Minder brand product for maintaining
the charge on their aircraft batteries.
He also said don’t leave it on and
charging continuously. Although these
minders tend to work well on car and
truck batteries where vehicles are
being driven rather frequently, they
don’t work that well on aircraft that are
intermittently operated because the
chances of overcharging the battery
substantially increase. Overcharging
is just as damaging as letting the battery run dead.
I have read advice for maintaining
battery life and performance that says
to put a low amperage minder/maintainer on one of the inexpensive light
timers that can be found at your local
hardware store. The timer can be set to
run for a short time each day or once a
week, thus maintaining the charge but
not overcharging the battery. You can
also set it to turn on before you typically fly so that the battery is warm
and fully charged when you’re ready
to hit the go button.
Here are some battery maintenance
tips (basic ideas came from Bogart
Aviation):
Always check and maintain the
proper fluid level in the battery. Only
add distilled water.
Maintain a charge but do not overcharge the battery. A solar cell may
work well for aircraft stored outdoors
(I won one of these as a door prize at a
maintenance seminar – it was donated
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by Aero Battery Sales & Service in
Cincinnati, 513-271-9116).
Use a low amperage charger and put
it on a timer to run just a short time
each day. The Battery Minder brand
comes highly recommended.
If removing the battery for charging
or storing, place the battery on a rubber, plastic, or wood surface. Do not
charge or store it on a concrete hangar
floor.
By Tom Gifford
Chapter President
[email protected]
We have had two Oklahoma Chapter
meetings in our move to reorganize. It
is my hope that we can generate interest in Piper owners to fly and attend
six meetings a year. We hope to
achieve this goal by having alternate
meetings in Easterm and Western areas
of the state and to include the
Panhandle. Panhandle activities will
be organized by our Western Activity
Director, Bill Spurlock.
I put notes in my iPhone about our
meetings and they disappeared. Does
anybody know what happens to notes
put in your iPhone or why they disappear? Some notes stay forever... Others
just disappear. This is just driving me
crazy. I must go back to the old system, unless I can figure this out. I did
make a few calls to rebuild my notes.
As usual, some are still missing. So
please understand....
Our first Western meeting was held
at the Weatherford, Oklahoma,
Airport. There is much to enjoy and
experience at the Thomas P Stafford
Museum.
To my surprise we had
lunch at the neatest fifties restaurant
that I have had the pleasure to enjoy a
meal at.....yes it is on Old Route 66.
After our lunch we toured the
Thomas P Stafford Museum. There are
many military aircrafts, space artifacts
and early aviation aircrafts on display.
Presentation can be everything. Yes,
you can see everything there is to see
of an Saturn Five Rocket Engine. Even
a replica of the Spirit Of St Louis. This
is another Oklahoma treasure everyone should visit and take part in. Those
in attendance were Bill and Diana
Spurlock, Ted and Sarah Fields, and
Tom Gifford.
Our East Fly-In was at the
Claremore Regional Airport. We met
at Bill and Charlene Kendrick’s
hangar. Charlene fixed us a wonderful
lunch. Thank you so much, Charlene.
Plenty of lunch, drinks, and desserts
too. We had five aircrafts fly in. Well,
six if you count the one in the hangar,
our only award winning Clipper.
Since my iPhone lost my notes, I am
trying to write this from my best collection of memories. We had two new
Pacers for me to visit with. I don’t
know about you, but I enjoy meeting
Pacers and their owners. One was
blue and white, PA-20. A very well
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At the Weatherford meeting are (left to right) Ted and Sarah
Fields, Tom Gifford, and Diana and Bill Spurlock. Below, Sarah and
Diana stand by the Spirit of St. Louis replica in the Thomas P.
Stafford Museum.
kept airplane, one I would love to fly
coast to coast, land on the beach with,
and camp and swim. The other was a
Pa-22/20, red and white. With near
perfect fabric... Yes, I thought much
better fabric and paint than Miss Pearl.
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Some may disagree (editor’s note,
including Frank Sperandeo, probably),
but you must attend our Fly-Ins to see
for yourself. He has a nice place up at
Oologah Lake. I hope we can all get
together there soon. Again, my apologies for losing my notes and not
remembering their names.
We had a special guest, World War
II P-51 Mustang pilot, Jim Carl. Yes
we did have an interesting conversation and the sharing of memories. I just
wish you could meet him.
The month of August is usually too
hot and family vacations use up our
airplane time. If anyone is interested
in going to Minden, Nebraska, let me
know. Our September Fly-In is The
Southwest Regional in Silver City,
New Mexico.
Please drop me an e mail if you’re
interested in participating in the
Oklahoma
SWPC
at
[email protected]..
Tom Gifford
President
OK, SWPC
918 906-3521
[email protected]
Great times at chapter meetings, regionals, and especially
conventions! Make your plans to attend as many as you
can, hopefully starting with the 2014 convention in Santa
Maria. Try to join us!
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Three of the planes on the ramp at Dyersburg, with the Pierces’
Red Lady flanked by two white and red models, perhaps belonging
to Ron Spence and Tom Brent.
President’s Report – Dyersburg, TN
/ Kennett, MO
By Tom Brent
Due to erratic and downright unfavorable weather of late, we decided to
try for an ad hoc, impromptu lunch
meeting on a Friday, June 16th. We
chose Dyersburg, TN (DYR), because
there is a café on the field. So, when
the sixteenth presented with fine flying
weather a few of us proceeded there,
only to find that the café was closed
that day. Bummer! And the courtesy
car was not available.
Drat!!
However, our resourceful Short Wing
crews quickly made a phone call in the
FBO and arranged for a courtesy car at
nearby Kennet, Missouri (TKX).
Five planes departed DYR in quick
succession, Barbara and Gilbert
Pierce’s Clipper, Ron Spence’s Pacer,
Deb and Dave Geiger’s Tri-Pacer, my
Tri-Pacer and Larry Jenkins in his RV.
Arriving at Kennet we made for a brief
period of intense traffic pattern activity….good practice for the student pilot
in a C-150 doing T & G’s.
As I write this I can’t recall exactly
where we had lunch….or what I
ate….but I do remember the enjoyable
convivial company. We all agreed that
spontaneous gatherings that were tailored to weather conditions, rather
than a fixed schedule putting us at the
mercy of the weather gods, was an
excellent way to go. So keep your ear
close to the ground ….or the computer…in case a sudden call for a fly-in
lunch comes up.
By the time you read this the SWPC
Convention will be history. I trust it
was as usual a huge success. I was
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Choices, choices! Ready to decide on lunch are (clockwise from
left around the table) Barb and Gib Pierce, Ron Spence, Greg Buller,
and Deb Geiger. Not pictured are Tom Brent, David Geiger, and Larry
Jenkins. David and Deb are shown below sharing a laugh while
preparing to depart.
unable to get there this year; however,
we were well represented by Gilbert
and Barbara Pierce and by Larry
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Jenkins, those of whom I know.
Enjoy the summer and fair weather
flying.
Another look at our
2013 Grand Champion!
N87NM looks right at home with those hills flanking her. She’s
the winner of the Bev Jewett Memorial Grand Champion Award from
the 2013 convention and our cover plane!
Unlike most of the members at the
convention, Dale Berger and his wife,
Lisa Finley, were able to fly their Short
Wing to Saratoga Springs. And a good
thing they did, too, since the Tri-Pacer
won the grand prize of the convention.
N87NM is a 1957 PA-22-150 which
was restored and took its first flight in
over 39 years on July 22, 2010. Dale
purchased the plane in 2001 in con-
junction, he said, with getting his private pilot training. At that time, the aircraft had been in a hangar “some 40plus years,” Dale said, in Allentown,
PA.
“I actually never intended to restore
an airplane for show,” Dale said. “I
just wanted a good solid plane to fly.
Dale said after the restoration, he
sent in to SWPN a short article and a
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word of thanks to our club members
(especially the Panel of Technical
Advisors) for their support. “I also sent
a few pictures in, not knowing it would
ever make Plane of the Month,” he
said. What a surprise that was!” The
plane landed on the cover of the
March-April 2011 issue.
“Also, that same year I flew the
plane to Air Venture at Oshkosh. I
entered N87NM for judging. As it
turned out, I headed home the
Saturday morning before the awards
banquet. I had no clue how it showed
other than great comments from other
pilots and aircraft owners. The follow-
ing day I checked the listing of award
winners. Surprised again! I was awarded the Bronze Lindy Contemporary
Category, Best Class 1 Single Engine
(0-160 hp.) Now to add to it all, being
awarded the Grand Champion at the
2013 Saratoga Springs Short Wing
Piper Club Convention is absolutely
an honor! I really have to thank gentlemen like Frank Sperandeo and others
for inspiring me to be patient and persistent.”
At the airport, Frank pronounced the
aircraft immaculate. When told that,
Dale said, “Well, there are a few things
I’d like to do . . . .”
Technical Corner
Short Wing tire maintenance
By Frank P. Sperandeo III
Past President
15841 Pear Circle
Fayetteville AR. 72704
Tel:479-521-2609
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.miss-pearl.org
When I started to compose this
SWPN article, it brought me back to
my innocent, mechanical childhood
experiences with my Schwinn bicycle.
I went everywhere with that first transportation vehicle that set me free from
that backyard penal six foot fence. I
finally was free! I could explore! I
could now deliver newspapers and
boost my meager income. In my family, an allowance was unheard of, and
my father censored the existence of
that word. His mantra was, “If you
don’t work, you don’t eat.”
As you would have it, my first real
“cross country” bicycle trip was to the
grand opening of Friendship Airport in
Anne Arundel County, Baltimore,
Maryland, aka Baltimore Washington
International Airport (BWI) – pedaling
about 40 strenuous miles away with no
beltways of travel. As my brother and
I approached the terminal and tower, in
the distance we could see the first airliners parked on the tarmac - a bunch
of Martin 404s, a gaggle of Douglas
DC-6s, even a TWA Constellation. We
were a couple of real airplane nutcases
jumping for joy while touching these
silver aviation giants. When we
returned home, we excitingly told our
mom where we went, and she fainted.
Many other trips on my bicycle were
enjoyable and in the process I met
many other kids that had similar interest in going on trips around the neighborhood and city streets. My bike was
eventually sold and traded up to a Ten
Speed - the portent of things to
come…..THE CAR!!
I wish I had had the internet when in
college. The many, many trips to the
Library, perusing those dang card catalogs, were exasperating and time consuming. Term papers were voluminous
and frequent. What a joy Google is in
keeping the mind up to snuff. The following is a brief synopsis of the invention of the Pneumatic Tire.
1. Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber in 1844 that was later
used for tires.
2. In 1888, John Dunlop invented
the air-filled or pneumatic tire; however, his were for bicycles. 3. In 1895, André Michelin was the
first person to use pneumatic tires on
an automobile, however, not successfully. 4. In 1911, Philip Strauss invented
the first successful tire, which was a
combination tire and air filled inner
tube. Strauss’ company the Hardman
Tire & Rubber Company marketed the
tires.
5. In 1903, P.W. Litchfield of the
Goodyear Tire Company patented the
first tubeless tire; however, it was
never commercially exploited until the
1954 Packard. 6. In 1904, mountable rims were
introduced that allowed drivers to fix
their own flats.
7. In 1908, Frank Seiberling invented grooved tires with improved road
traction. 8. In 1910, B.F. Goodrich Company
invented longer life tires by adding
carbon to the rubber. 9. Goodrich also invented the first
synthetic rubber tires in 1937 made of
a
patented
substance
called
Chemigum.
Changing a bicycle tire with the
internal tube as a kid mechanic was
awkward. Kids that had Dads or Moms
with knowledge of how to fix things
around the house/ garage were a blessing to my brothers and me. My dad
could fix anything, especially bike
flats. One of the things he taught was
to never use a screwdriver to pry a tube
out of a bike tire as it would have a
tendency to pierce the tube and dam-
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age the tire bead. Later on, as a
teenager, I worked at a service station
where I discovered the tire iron - a two
foot long, flat spoon shaped tool that
would remove an auto tire from the
rim. With the split aluminum tire hub
construction of our Short Wings, we
need not to use screwdrivers, or any
other sharp object, in changing tires
and tubes.
There are several factors of changing and maintaining the PA-22 and
other Short Wing size tires - namely
the 600-6. I prefer the Michelin brand
due to its noted quality and dependability.
For current cost cutting, I prefer
Michelin recaps at $50.00 per tire
delivered free from Desser Tires,
Memphis, Tennessee. If you have
existing Michelin casings they will
recap your cores.
One additional suggestion, consider
purchasing Michelin “Non-Leak”
tubes - they work. At $40.00 per,
they’re a bargain. Some of our members have wheel pants on their aircraft,
and it’s a booger to inflate the tire as
the wheel pant covers the valve stem.
This problem can be solved with a
variety of access doors and cover
plates that can be simply fabricated.
We as private pilots are allowed
according to FAR Part 43 Appendix A,
(c) (1)-(29) to perform our own maintenance on our Short Wings. Tires
somehow made the #1 place. During
the annual inspection is a good time to
inspect your tires for uneven tread
wear, cuts, and possible air leaks in the
inner tube - also bearing, seal, and
brake pad wear. While performing this
operation, it would be a good idea to
examine the hydraulic components
such as the brake line connections,
which have a propensity to shear the
hydraulic 50-50 soft aluminum line
flair on the end, and leak. There is a
cure by inserting a small Del fitting
100
seal (AC Spruce - pt. #04-05002) into
the fitting after flaring and before
tightening.
To review the process of disassembling the two piece cast aluminum
hubs, there is a “first thing first factor.”
Let the air out of the tire. There is
documented evidence of a tendency to
get so involved in a maintenance project that your mind ratchets forward to
the next task unknowingly. It’s a psychological safety hazard and it can put
the hurt on you.
Here’s how:
1. Do a tribal dance on the outside of
the tire to break loose the tire from the
rims. (grin)
2. Remove the nuts and bolts from
the hub halves. Discard the
ESNA/Fiber nuts. You will
install
new ones later on.
3. Check brake disc rotor for
grooves, bluing (heat), warping and
rusting with pits.
4. Pull apart hub halves and remove
inner tube.
5. Clean parts - disc rotor, hub
halves - with either Varsol or other
grease solvent. Do also to the brake
caliper assy.
6. Deburr both hub cases, especially
the valve stem hole. This casting hole
edge is razor sharp and will eventually
cut through the valve stem. Use a
deburring tool to remove the sharpness
around the radius. Each hub half has
die casting seams on the outer rims and
inner rims that are razor sharp and can
be filed with a 6” mill file. If while
assembling the hubs together the inner
ring hubs and the inner tube happens to
get caught between the two halves on
assembly, you will have a scraped
tube. See pix 1, 2, 3, & 4.
7. When assembling the tire to the
split hubs forget using any kinds of
screw drivers, scratch awls, ice picks,
etc. It sounds silly, but being an A & P,
IA for years, I have seen it all. How
about a cigarette butt or a piece of
chewing gum in the tire casing? Nice.
Check it out. No need to use talcum
powder in the casing with the following method of seating the inner tube
within the tire.
8. Place one hub half in the tire, and
the deflated tube in the tire cavity with
the valve stem aligned with the red dot
on the outside tire wall. Make sure the
valve stem is facing outward to the red
dot. The red dot is for the lightest spot
on the periphery of the tire so as to
keep vibration at a minimum when in
rotation - just like your car tire. See pix
5, 6, & 7 (on page 102).
9. Place the remaining hub half,
aligned with the valve stem hole, in
place. Make sure not to crimp the tube
between the hub assembly. With the
deburring of the inner hub rims, the
odds are in your favor.
10. Using the valve stem tool with
the threaded prong, screw in and pull
the valve stem through the hole and
seat. Shake the entire tire unit for good
measure to seat the deflated tube. See
pix 8 & 9 (on following pages).
11. Insert the three bolts, washers,
through the hubs, brake disc, and
secure the entire assembly with new
ESNA/Fiber nuts - using the tables of
torque specs listed in AC 43.13 1B, to
tighten nuts. Remove internal thread
prong tool and inflate tire to at least 40
lbs. pressure and deflate. This operation is to ensure the tube is seated and
aligned with the inner wall of the tire.
Use the valve stem tool to screw in the
tiny internal valve seat and inflate to
35 lbs.
Notes: While at the Saratoga
Springs Convention, I had an interesting question regarding nitrogen filled
tires, re: Aircraft. I replied with a big
Duh! Here is the simple research I
found on the ubiquitous internet.
Better tire-pressure retention:
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Pix 1: Outer ring
Pix 2: Inner Ring
The
hubs
should
be
deburred with a hole deburring
tool and a 6-inch mill file to prevent these razor sharp edges
from cutting into the valve stem.
Pix 3: Valve stem hole
Pix 4 (on the right): Inner
tube valve stem. The pencil
shows the area of the valve
stem where the potential leak
may occur.
Over time, a tire will gradually lose
pressure. Changes in temperature will
accelerate this. The general rule of
thumb is a loss of 1 psi for every 10degree rise or fall in temperature. The
institute says that nitrogen has a more
stable pressure, since it has larger molecules than oxygen that are less likely
to seep through the permeable tire
walls.
In 2006, Consumer Reports conducted a year-long study to determine
how much air loss was experienced in
tires filled with nitrogen versus those
filled with air. The results showed that
nitrogen did reduce pressure loss over
time, but it was only a 1.3 psi difference from air-filled tires. Among 31
pairs of tires, the average loss of airfilled tires was 3.5 psi from the initial
30 psi setting. Nitrogen-filled tires lost
an average of 2.2 psi from the initial
setting. Nitrogen won the test, but not
by a significant margin. (Full report at
102
Pix 5 (above): Stem and dot.
Pix 6 (at right): The valve stem
should be aligned with the dot
to prevent minor vibration of the
rotating tire.
h t t p : / / w w w. e d m u n d s . c o m / c a r care/should-you-fill-your-cars-tireswith-nitrogen. html)
You be the judge. With a big BUT
comment, who in blazes is going to
tote a 150 lb. steel bottle of this gas to
the hanger? Spend your money on
Michelin no leak tubes - it’s the best
advice.
Epilogue:
This article, to some, may be elementary. The technical panel of the
SWPN have been blessed with an
abundance of skills, FAA designations
and a lot of experience to keep this
club and its members safe. It has been
my privilege during this tenure to be a
part of a talented SWPC technical
panel of volunteers to relinquish the
best knowledge of how to maintain
our aircraft - the Piper Short Wing.
Our panel members have the credentials showing accomplishments of
achieving the various designations of
A&P, IA, DAR and DER. These cre-
dentials involve attending yearly seminars, at FSDO, and MIDO seminars,
for continuing education, comprising
the day to day interpretation of FAA
orders, AD’s, STC’s, and most important, being actively engaged in interaction with the FAA personnel, which
is challenging to say the least. I do not
know of any type club that has the
same diversity of knowledge pertaining to our aircraft. We sincerely advocate that we do not know all of the
questions that are posed to us daily by
our members and non-members.
Conversely, each one of us knows
where to find the answer and get back
to that member the same day.
Some experts give answers to technical problems, but their listeners
103
Pix 7: Note the tube valve stem tool with four prongs, which are
the internal re-threading tool, the miniature slotted screwdriver for
the tiny air valve, the external threaded end for pulling the valve
stem through the hole to seat the stem, and the internal threaded
end for re-threading the outer damaged stem threads. This tool is a
must for any serious tube repair on any aircraft, auto, or bicycle.
(See Pix 8 on the next page)
come away with a barrage of advice
that tends to choose and confuse due to
vague, non-investigative valid facts.
We as a team rely on each other to fill
in the gaps of information and come up
with a plausible answer to help the
individual member on a personal
basis. It has been my privilege over my
tenure of being a part of a talented
SWPC technical volunteer panel to
help supply the best knowledge of how
to maintain our aircraft - the Piper
Short Wing.
Godspeed,
Franco
“I AM NOT REMOTELY INTERESTED IN JUST BEING GOOD. WE
ARE GOING TO RELENTLESSLY
CHASE PERFECTION, KNOWING
FULL WELL WE WILL NOT CATCH
IT, BECAUSE NOTHING IS PERFECT. BUT WE ARE GOING TO
RELENTLESSLY
CHASE
IT,
BECAUSE IN THE PROCESS WE
WILL CATCH EXCELLENCE.” Vince
Lombardi – Coach - Green Bay
Packers.
104
Pix 8: Tube stem extensions are needed for the Short Wing tire
hubs due to the hub casting design. The regular tube stem is short
and needs more purchase when filling with air. Also, wheel pants
seem to get in the way if an opening in them restricts the air hose
fitting from entering to the valve stem end for inflation of the tire.
Any auto supply store has the tools mentioned in this article.
Editor’s note: Frank has been an return of phone calls and emails. He is
SWPC/EAA Technical Counselor for an A&P, IA, DAR, and DER. See his
24 years and can be contacted for per- classified ad in the back of this issue
sonal technical advice to our mem- for other services he offers.
bers. He prides himself on same day
Want more technical reports? They’re as close as your
computer! Send in YOUR technical report or a story
about your modification or the story of your rebuilding
project. Help advance the knowledge of your fellow
members by sharing your ideas. And check out the
Tips and Techniques CDs or other CD’s available from
the club’s new web store.
If you get help from a technical advisor or a fellow
member, drop us a short note and tell us about it.
Spread the word about modifications, tools, techniques, anything that makes it easier to keep our Short
Wings flying!
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No Saratoga
(Editor’s Note: One more story of
the 2013 convention --- missed!)
By Daniel Cathey
Cottage Grove, Ore.
[email protected]
As far as flying goes, it seems as
though over the last year I have definitely contracted the “Charlie Brown”
syndrome and should have the word
‘LOSER’ written on my forehead
below my constantly receding hairline.
Since the last two situations concerning my non-flying activities with
Clipper N5817H that you so kindly
included in last fall and winter’s
SWPC News, I have managed to
increase the total flying time figures in
my flight log by such a miniscule
amount that I question whether the
BFR, medical, and ownership of two
planes (both flyable and with full gas
tanks) is worthwhile.
Following my personal repair and
the rebuild of the Clipper carburetor
after the incident written up in the
SWPN, I managed to contract an inane
malaise that kept me from getting into
the air for almost three months. Then
the rule that Brian McGlynn mentioned in the last Columbia River
Chapter regional report (just call a
meeting and that will guarantee a cold,
wet day) reverted from Chapter status
to me individually.
Surely, by late June there would be
no weather to worry about, so to correct the disparity of hours in my log
book I decided to attend the convention in Saratoga. I collected all the
charts and other information needed
for the trip, thoroughly checked out the
plane and loaded it with all the equip-
ment I would need for both camping
and moteling over a three week period,
but I decided not to sign up for the
Convention until I actually got there.
And I began watching the weather.
The plan was to depart Cottage
Grove on Tuesday the 25th; this would
allow a leisurely five days to the
Convention with - depending on various things - day stops for relatives in
Rock Springs or a visit to Mount
Rushmore which I have always overflown during previous trips. But, of
course, Brian’s previously-mentioned
rule took effect and weather rolled in
on Sunday the 23rd that socked in the
whole West Coast all the way to the
Rockies. It was to last through
Thursday so I believed I could still
make it if nothing else changed.
Come Wednesday morning it was
raining hard when I got up and I was
feeling rather down because of what I
thought was remorse over not flying,
but by ten o’clock I had developed a
deep hard cough and cold clammy
sweats that concerned my wife to the
extent she called the triage nurse at the
local hospital. She was informed there
had been numerous cases of viral
bronchial
infections
in
the
Eugene/Springfield area (where we
had been over the weekend) in recent
weeks and these were now showing up
in the Cottage Grove area. The nurse
recommended the usual liquids,
aspirins/ibuprofins, etc., and to not
bother the doctor for at least five days
unless certain other symptoms
appeared.
So now it was the Saturday before
the convention and I was sitting here
under a clear sky and in the midst of a
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Here’s Daniel’s Clipper, ready to go! See you next year, Dan and
N5817!
very rare (for Oregon) heat wave and
feeling much like I would if I was
pulled through a very small knot hole.
This while bemoaning the fact that I
was not currently heading down the
Hudson and approaching Saratoga.
However, I saw on the news that the
whole east coast was experiencing a
terrific storm that was currently arriving in the same area. From my somewhat limited experience in assisting
the Columbia River Chapter’s hosting
the national convention at Pearson
several years ago I know how much
time and effort it takes to be successful
in such an endeavor and certainly
wished the best to those involved in
this one and truly hoped the weather
doesn’t spoil it.
And my apologies for not putting
the wheels of N5817 down on their
runway. Next year in Santa Maria?
Daniel Cathey
SWPC 11617
Next issue deadline:
September 20 for the November-December
issue
November 20 for the Jan-Feb 2014 issue
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Regional Chapters/Presidents
If you need a reason to fly somewhere in your region, check with your
closest regional chapter president to see when the next fly-in is. And the
president is also the one who will know who flies what and who does what
and who knows what! Give him or her a call and ask to join the chapter!
Chapter Presidents: Please review your information below and make certain it is correct. If changes need to be made, please notify Adolph Svec,
chapter coordinator, at the contact information found on page ii at the front
of each issue.
ALABAMA: *** (***See note below)
ALASKA: Rick Brenden, 31076 W. Lee Circle, Sutton, AK 99674, 907-7460992; [email protected] See website: www.swpcak.org
ARIZONA: Terry Karlson, 40490 Lovettsville Rd, Lovettsville, VA 20180 540822-5954, 602-625-5905 (cell); [email protected]
ARKANSAS: (See Razorbacks)
BUCKEYE: Jack Lautzenheiser, 1515 E. Elm St., Lima, OH 45804, 419-2270932; [email protected] See website: www.shortwing.org/chapter/ohio/
OREGON: (See Columbia River)
CALIFORNIA: Mark Ohlau, P.O. Box 1027, Sutter Creek, CA 95685-1027,
209-481-5528; [email protected]
CAROLINAS: Steve Culler, 5900 Brookway Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27105,
336-767-6426; [email protected]; See website: www.carolinashortwings.org
COLORADO & WYOMING: Jim Lambert, 11660 E. 160th, Brighton, CO
80602, 303-659-4938; [email protected]
COLUMBIA RIVER: Brian McGlynn, 633 Stearman St., Independence, OR
97351, 541-556-0716, :[email protected]. See website:
www.columbiariverswpc.org
CONNECTICUT: (See Northeast)
DELAWARE: (See Mid-Atlantic)
EASTERN MISSOURI & WESTERN ILLINOIS: Greg Kuklinski, 8206
For information on upcoming chapter fly-ins, check with
the chapter president listed on this and the following pages or
check the EVENTS listing on the SWPC website (www.shortwingpiperclub.org). Chapter presidents and reporters: Please
send your chapter reports to SWPN at [email protected].
Please also send them to [email protected]
for input to the web.
Anyone with questions on the chapter listings or anyone
desiring to reactivate one of the inactive chapters, please contact the Chapter Coordinator, Adolph Svec, using the information shown at the front of this issue.
108
Brenner Ave., St. Louis, MO 63144-5216, 314-209-0050 gregkpacer
@juno.com
FLORIDA: George Klitsch, 10 Silver Streak Lane, Valrico, FL 33594, 813-6894822: [email protected] See website: www.Florida-swpc.org
GEORGIA: David Martin, P.O. Box 36, Parrott, GA 39877;
[email protected]
HAWAII: (Pacific Islands) Doug Conger, 711 Hartman Rd., Cortez, CO 813214029, 970-565-8394; [email protected]
HIGH PLAINS: (west TX, east NM) Mark Merritt, P.O. Box 14610, Odessa,
TX 79768, 915-368-7441, 915-367-1188; [email protected]
IDAHO: (See Montana)
ILLINOIS: ***
ILLINOIS,western: (See eastern MO & western IL)
INDIANA: ***
IOWA: ***
KANSAS: (See Mid-America)
KENTUCKY: ***
LOUISIANA: (Cajun, see Arkansas)
MAINE: (See Northeast)
MASSACHUSETTS: (See Northeast)
MICHIGAN: Garry Butler 4479 Welch Rd., Attica, MI 48412-9394, 810-7248157; [email protected] ; Online discussion group groups.yahoo.
com/group/MichiganSWPC/
MID-AMERICA: (KS & western MO) Fred Mayes 236 Farmers Lane,
Lebanon, MO 65536-3725, 417-531-1278; [email protected]
MID-ATLANTIC: (PA, NJ, DE, MD, northeastern VA) Rich Capece, 2 Heron
Ln, Millville, NJ 08332, (H)856-765-7223 (W) 610-591-6168, (C) 609-4711519; [email protected]
MINNESOTA: (See North Central)
MISSISSIPPI: ***
MISSOURI, Eastern: (See eastern MO & western IL)
MISSOURI: (See Mid-America)
MONTANA: David Hedditch, 501 Darla Dr., Victor, MT 59875, Hedditch
Airstrip (MT72), 406-360-3283; [email protected]
NEBRASKA: (Cornhuskers) Dallas & Lynette Worrell,511 Road E, Schuyler,
NE 68661, 402-352-8776; [email protected] See
website:www.angelfire.com/ne/swpc
NEVADA: (See Utah/Nevada/Idaho)
NEW HAMPSHIRE: (See Northeast)
NEW JERSEY: (See Mid-Atlantic & Northeast)
NEW MEXICO: (See Arizona)
NEW YORK: (See Northeast)
NORTH CENTRAL: (MN & WI) Tim McDaniel, 405 Miller Ave SW,
Hutchinson, MN 55350, 320-587-2476, [email protected]
NORTH CAROLINA: (See Carolinas)
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NORTH DAKOTA: (See North Central)
NORTHEAST: (northeastern PA, northern NJ, NY, CT, MA, RI, NH,VT, ME)
Andy Seligson, 331 Westchester Ave., Crestwood, NY 10707, (c) 914-5223341 (H) 914-337-2968; [email protected]
OHIO: (See Buckeye)
OKLAHOMA: Tom Gifford, PO Box 538, Barnsdale, OK 74002, 918-9063521, [email protected]
PENNSYLVANIA: (See Mid-Atlantic & Northeast)
RAZORBACKS: Jay Bruce (acting president) 127 Woodland Drive Searcy, AR
72143, 501,388-4874; [email protected]
RHODE ISLAND: (See Northeast)
SOUTH CAROLINA: (See Carolinas)
SOUTH DAKOTA: (See North Central)
TENNESSEE: Tom Brent, 540 CR 119, Walnut, MS 38683, 662-223-6257;
[email protected] See website: www.tnswpc.org
TEXAS, North: (Longhorn) Art McLemore, 417 Pecan Dr., Aledo, TX 76008,
817-441-8897; [email protected]
TEXAS, South: (See Longhorn - North TX)
UTAH/NEVADA/IDAHO: currently inactive *** (see note below)
VERMONT: (see Northeast)
VIRGINIA: (See Northeast)
WASHINGTON: (See Columbia River}
WISCONSIN: (See North Central)
WYOMING: (See Colorado/Wyoming)
Canadian Chapters
ALBERTA: Marc Stewart, Suite 303, #1 Springfield Ave., Red Deer, AB T4N
0C5, 403-396-3675; [email protected] Website:www.short
wingsovercanada.com/http__shortwingsovercanada.com/Alberta_Chapter.
html
BRITISH COLUMBIA Paul Evans, 26-2515 Fortress Drive, Port Coquitlam,
BC V3C-6E8, 604-945-0588; [email protected] See website www.short
wingsovercanda.com/http__shortwingsovercanada.com/B.C._Chapter.html
SHORT WINGS OVER CANADA (Ontario & western Quebec); Peter Lubig
102 Highland Dr., Shanty Bay, Ontario, Canada L0L 2L0, 705-835-0312;
[email protected] ; Visit website: www.shortwingsovercanada.com
*** If you would like to begin a chapter in one of these areas, contact Adolph
R. Svec, 19009 River Rd., Marengo, IL 60152, 815-568-6652 [email protected]
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Classified Ads
Notice to
Classified
Advertisers
Classified advertising is free for all
members, providing it is for an ordinary buy, sell or swap transaction of a
non-commercial
nature.
Please
describe the items for sale or trade
accurately so as to protect the reputation of the club and its magazine. A
stipulation of the free advertising is
that parts may be returned to the seller
and money paid refunded, except
postage, if the buyer is not satisfied
with the item.
If an SWPC member is operating a
business for profit and advertising
items for sale in connection with his or
her commercial enterprise, this must
be considered commercial advertising
and does not come under the “freebee”
classification. It must be paid at the
regular commercial classified rate of
$7.50 for the first inch and $2.50 per
inch for additional space, with a $7.50
minimum.
Send
all
advertising
to
[email protected] or The Short
Wing Piper News, P.O. Box 10822,
Springfield, MO 65808. All classified
ads, unless specified at the time of
insertion, will be run one time only.
If you need your ad run again,
please notify Eleanor by the deadline date. Note: If your ad is followed by “tfc” it will run as is until
you tell Eleanor to pull it or change
something in it.
Please note that the website is separate from the magazine. If you want
your ad run in both places, make
sure you send it to both places.
(Website address: www.shortwingpiperclub. org)
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1956 PA-22-150, tach 1238.4 hours,
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1956 PA-22-150, TT 3051 hours, SMOH
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1958 TRI-PACER PA-22-160, N9321D,
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1633, TOH at 2607, 3198 TT. Recovered 783 with Ceconite 101. Bendix/King KA-134
112
audio panel, Narco MK12D nav/com,
Micro-Air 760 com, yoke mounted dual
push-to-talk, King KR-86 ADF, King KT78A
transponder, DME, David Clark 4-place
panel intercom, master avionics switch,
VSI, vacuum gauge, Sigma-Tek artificial
horizon and DG, Cessna electric turn and
bank. Petersen auto fuel STC, B&C oil filter, North River Brake Booster, electronic
voltage regulator, LED panel lights, sealed
struts. Flown regularly. Annualed 6-12.
Owned since 5-1-00. No damage history.
Contact Roger Montambo; hangared in
Charlotte, N.C. Cell 704-661-7843.
$19,995.
SO
1960 PA-22-160, NC 3062Z, S/N 227017. TT 3969.72 on airframe, Lycoming
engine O-320 hp-B2B 160 hp with TT
3969.72 and SMOH 1842.65. Ceconite
fabric covered, Bahama Blue/Insignia
White. Sensenich prop M74 DM-0-6. King
radios KX155 with CDI/Glide Slope,
Bendix/King KT76A transponder. Sealed
struts, Bogart cable and box conversion,
60 amp alternator, shoulder harnesses in
front. New 3/16 inch windshield and side
windows. Factory installed Piper auto control. DG & Artificial Horizon rebuilt in 2012.
Bracket air filter. All logs since new. Last
annual 10/2011. $18,000. Adrian Geiger,
Prescott, AZ. Phone 928-445-6418 or
email [email protected]
tfc
1961 Colt PA-22-108, N4917Z, rebuilt in
1994, always hangared. Stits fabric and
Aerothane paint, Maule tail wheel, Raven
conventional gear and Cleveland brakes,
Williams dual toe brakes and rudder pedal
STC, B&C Specialty spin-on oil filter, EGT
gauge mixture monitor, engine has 2820
hours and 490 SMOH, airframe 3470
hours. Have pictures. Lost medical. Am
asking $17,000 OBO. Phone 314-7739241, but have bad hearing. Please write
Ken Rath, 1102 Wyoming St., St. Lous,
MO 63118. SO, ND, JA
1961 Piper Colt, PA-22/20 taildragger,
N5011Z, 4620 TT airframe, engine has 150
hours SMOH, annual good through 9-13.
Always hangared. Slick mags, alternator,
Lamar starter, vac system, engine heater,
remote oil filter, STC auto fuel, good compression. Narco MK-12-D Plus with loc &
GS, AT 50, electric turn coordinator, center
mount GPS Garmin 196, CHT/EGT, intercom, newer glass, new lap and shoulder
harnesses, 36 gal. fuel, Neon nav lights.
Wings recovered 2011 using Stewart
Systems and Stewart tips, VG’s, tip
strobes, 8-inch tail wheel. Located in
Hangar 6 (blue hangar) PKB. Price
$29,000. Available NOW. Call Warren
Myers, cell 304-482-0631. Photos available, [email protected].
SO
1961 Colt with tailwheel, 108 hp, TT
3719, SMOH 1084, SMR24, Scott tailwheel, sealed struts, KS145/K1205 navcom, KT76/78 transponder, intercom, autogas STC, good fabric. Skis. Hangared,
fresh annual. $23,999 OBO. Steve, 773914-9938.
tfc
1961 Piper Colt, 411 SMOH, Ceconite,
Bendix King nav/com KLX135A, KT76
transponder, $12,500. 816-257-5969. tfc
1968 Cherokee 180D -- the other short
wing Piper! 1180 SMOH, 3329 TT, dual KX
170B with glide slope. New exhaust, has
all logs, comes with a cover, been
hangared. This airplane is in Oregon, but
we’ll deliver in US. Asking $35,000, make
offer! 541-447-0475.
tfc
Projects for Sale
VAGABOND/WAGABOND FUSELAGE:
New and in epoxy primer, includes door
frame, two opening windows, skylight, firewall and floor panel. Fuselage has extra
stringers to break up the boxy appearance.
I can email 20 detailed pictures on request.
Wag-Aero gets $8,000 for the same fuselage minus door and window frames.
Asking $4,500. Free delivery within a reasonable distance from Central Wisconsin.
Contact Don Halloran, 801 South Lincoln
Ave., Marshfield, WI 54449. Phone 715387-3057. Email [email protected]. (20
photos available)
tfc
PROJECT 1: 1961 Piper Colt project.
Basket case. A/C was disassembled 15
years ago for recover. Very good wings,
dual fuel tanks. Complete with Lycoming
O-235 and prop, $5,500.
PROJECT II: Clip wing Cub (clone),
experimental, in process of recover.
Fuselage 95% complete. Wings need one
rear spar replaced and recover. Cont. C-85
and prop included. $14,000 (firm)
Project III: 1952 PA-22/20 complete and
has been flying. Wings and control surfaces should be recovered soon. Aircraft
as seen in Short Wing Commemorative
History page 54. $12,000 firm.
Too many projects, not enough time and
money. Cas Behr, 410-745-4335,
Maryland.. WANTED: Plans for “Replica
Plane” SE5A.
JA
Wanted
I am looking for a Tri-Pacer or Pacer
project, 150 hp or 160 hp. Please call Bob
at 661-978-0722.
tfc
WANTED: Lycoming O-290-D2 with
low-time SMOH. Call or email Adolph
Svec, 815-568-6652, [email protected],
Marengo, Ill.
SO
Parts for Sale
O-290-D Lycoming, zero since major, all
new ex. valves and guides, all cylinders
chromed. All tolerances to manufacturer’s
new specs. Will deliver within 500 miles of
Vassar, Mich. Engine only $7,950, with
accessories and prop, $9,950. Phone 989823-3276, cell 989-670-9604, or email
[email protected].
SO
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1958 Piper Tri-Pacer wings for sale,
include flaps, ailerons, fuel tanks and fuel
tank covers. Wings reassembled using all
the following new parts: all leading edge
metal, all new false spares, all new root
attach bushings, all new cables and cable
fairleads, new flap return springs, all hardware, nuts, bolts, washers, screws, Clevis
pins, cotter pins are new. Wings have been
reassembled using Stewarts Wing Tips
and nav lights are included with strobes
and strobe power packs. Also new LED
landing and taxi lights are installed. Also
included are a full set of standard airworthy
struts (unsealed) with airworthy strut forks.
$7,700 invested, sell all for $5,500 OBO.
Alan Arrow, 816-390-3447.
SO
F.Atlee Dodge PA-22/20 30.5 gallon
right wing tank. Never been out of the shipping crafte. For sale, $2000 firm. Tim
Williams, 205-919-3030.
tfc
AIRPATH C2300 L4 panel mount compass, lit, 12v, $80. Franco Sperandeo, 479521-2609.
tfc
BODELL BRAKES for sale (from
Skybound). Complete set of wheel (hubs)
and brakes. STC’d for PA-14, 15, 16, 17
and 20. Lots of new extras. Removed from
service and all like new. $800. Franco
Sperandeo, 479-521-2609.
tfc
AIRBORNE vacuum regulating valve,
283-19, $150. Franco Sperandeo, 479521-2609.
tfc
LYC O-320-B2B with 740 hours from
factory. New cermachrome cylinders.
Compression (+/-) 4 lbs. Current annual.
Complete Tri-Pacer power unit firewall forward and prop. $15,000. 503-252-2836.
tfc
1956 Tri-Pacer fuselage. Good condition
and in annual. 24440 TT, Ceconite, aux
fuel tank, no rust, good interior. Logs
included. $5,550. 503-252-2836.
tfc
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PA-20/22 wings, no damage. Need covering. Located in Michigan. Will deliver reasonable distance. $2,000. Call 616-3402142.
tfc
McCAULEY IC90 LM (7146). Will fit
Lycoming O-235, PA-12, PA-14, PA-16,
PA-18, and PA-20-115. $1300. Joe.
[email protected], 612-282-7824
tfc
Miscellaneous
PEARL MODS, install the original speed
mods that are on Miss Pearl, the national
EAA Grand Champion. See website:
www.miss-pearl.org. Available with
approved 337s. Speed mods include
monocoupe style wheel pants, flap hinge,
aileron horn wingstrut and rudder cable
fairings. All high quality, light weight, hand
layup and ready to paint. Also available
original long-tipped primer nozzles and
cowl door restraints, custom sun visor kit,
vent window slide retainer, custom spring
loaded rudder/elevator gap seals, and luggage gas spring mod. Bungee installations
--- One day turnaround. Call for prices. Call
or e-mail requests for information to Frank
Sperandeo. Tel: 479-521-2609 or e-mail
[email protected] --- For your personal technical advisor, call me any time --calls returned same day. Also available,
DER reports for left door install -- PA-22,
upper split cowl, brakes, alternator/generator substitution, etc.
tfc
RETIRED WELDER/IA WANTS PA-22
ANNUALS. South Central Ohio, Highland
County Airport, Hillsboro, Ohio. Ralph
Widman-PH 937-364-6050. E-mail wizardofwid@ aol.com
tfc
FABRIC RESTORATION, tailwheel
instruction, Lance Bartels, Cherry Hill
Aviation, Southern Indiana (Freetown,
Ind.), [email protected] or
812-322-6762.
tfc
SPLIT NOSE COWL MOD eliminates
need to remove prop to remove/install
nose cowl. Two-piece nosewheel fairing
mod eliminates need to remove wheel from
fork to remove/install fairing. Both of these
mods, with approved Form 337s and
detailed descriptions of how the work was
done are available from Bill Havener, 1409
6th Ave., Sterling, Ill. 61081, phone 815626-0910.
tfc
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is a tfc at the end, your ad will run until you tell
us to pull it. If it says SO, it will run for only this
issue (September-October). If you want it to run
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What do you see at SWPC
conventions? Short Wings! And what
do convention-goers do? They look at
all the airplanes and marvel at the
grand champion! At least that’s what
John D’Amico, Mount Airy, MD.,
and Frank Sperandeo, Fayetteville,
AR, did at the 2013 convention in
Saratoga Springs, NY.
SHORT WING PIPER
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September-October 2013
An abbreviated flock of Short Wings at the 2013 convention
was led by N87NM, owned by Dale and Lisa Berger of Nazareth,
Pa. The PA-22 is making her second appearance on the cover of
The News, first appearing in March-April 2011. This time she is
here to announce her latest honor — the Bev Jewett Memorial
Grand Champion Award from the convention held July 1-5 in
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She also won the 2011 Bronze Lindy in
the contemporary class 1 for single engines, 0-160 hp. at
Oshkosh in 2011. You can see another photo of the winner inside
in the color section and yet another with a few more details in
another story. Her restoration was told in the 2011 story.
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Photos and stories from the 2013 convention and an
overview of the 2014 convention — good times planned!