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SHORT WING PIPER NEWS - July-August 2012
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The
News
Short
Wing
Piper
July-August 2012
(ISSN 8750-9113)
820 E. University
Springfield, MO 65807
This beautiful painting of a
Tri-Pacer over a lake is by
aviation artist Barry Ross.
You can read about his
career (and his love of Short
Wings) inside!
Convention color photos
Short Wing Piper Club
Inc.
IN THIS ISSUE
More outstanding Short Wings such as Roni
McPherson’s Convention Grand Champion Clipper
(above) in a special color section, news from the
convention, technical reports, and chapter reports!
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THE SHORT WING PIPER NEWS
The Voice of the Short Wing Piper
July-August 2012 - Vol. 34: No. 4
President: Peter Lubig
102 Highland Dr., Shanty Bay, Ontario, Canada
L0L 2L0
705-835-0312
lubig@planepictures.ca
Vice President: Kurt Selbert
Roseville, Calif.
cell 650-576-2643
swpcvicepresident@gmail.com
Treasurer: Kaaren McGlynn
633 Stearman St.
Independence, OR 97351-9412
541-726-4088
kaaren@warmglassartist.com
Secretary: Art Weisberger
3616 Blackbird Dr.
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
520-459-3768
E-Mail: Tripacer19d@aol.com
AT LARGE MEMBERS, EXECUTIVE BOARD
David Hedditch, 501 Darla Dr., Victor, MT 59875, 406-360-3283, Email drh29@bitterroot.com
Fred Mayes, 236 Farmers Lane, Lebanon, MO 65536-3725, 417532-4445, cell 417-531-1278, email fbmayes@fidnet.com
Andy Seligson, 331 Westchester Ave., Yonkers, NY 10707-1657,
914-337-2968, 914-522-3341 (cell), Email andytuba@optonline.net
Send large photo files through
https://www.yousendit.com/dropbox?
dropbox=ShortWingPiperNews
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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, eleanormills@att.net
Chapter Coordinator, Lew Porter, 602 Wilton Road, Towson, MD 21286,
410-823-2521. E-Mail porter1@comcast.net
Panel of Technical Advisors: Tom Anderson, 5401 Crooked Tree Dr.,
Mason, OH 45040, 513-398-2656, E-Mail teanderson@cinci.rr.com; Chuck
Morris, 959 J Highway, Peculiar, MO 60478, 816-779-5504, E-Mail mramccm@casstel.net; Ralph Gutowski, 8 Ives Woods Drive, Oxford, Ohio 45056,
513-523-2647, E-Mail rgutowski@woh.rr.com; Ralph Widman, Box 573,
Lynchburg, OH 45142, 937-364-6050, E-Mail, wizardofwid@aol.com; Doug
Arpke, 3502 199th Pl. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-9109, 425-776-8033, E-Mail
arpke54@frontier.net
Librarians/Tool Acquisitions, Terry and Claire Karlson, 40490 Lovettsville
Rd., Lovettsville, VA 20180, 540-822-5954. E-mail swpclibrary@yahoo.com
Education Foundation Director, Larry Jenkins, 4160 Green Hill Dr.,
Hernando, Miss. 38632, 901-212-2849 (cell), email swpcefdirector@hotmail.com
Historian, Jan Widman, Box 573, Lynchburg, OH 45142, 937-364-6050, Email, jamocadura@aol.com
Short Wing Web Store, Larry Jenkins manager (see info above) - Now
on the club website! CD’s and more!
Chapter Presidents, pages 120-122
Check out the club’s website
and the club webstore!
www.shortwing.org
Vol. 34, No. 4 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
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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
July-August 2012
President’s Report: Convention news and what’s new
for the Short Wing Piper News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Peter Lubig
Who’s new? 4-20-12 through 7-4-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
2012 Convention - Wasatch Passage 2012, June 25-28
Executive Board business meetings held . . . . . . . . .5
Eleanor Mills
Membership business meeting well attended . . . . .13
Eleanor Mills
Five scholarships awarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Eleanor Mills
Convention awards given at closing banquet . . . . .17
Eleanor Mills
Color section (29-44), More scenes (108-114)
2013 Convention
You’ll want to be a part of the Saratoga
convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Andy Seligson
Saratoga offers a great many attractions and
activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Club stalwart’s death reported
Steve Marsh, 1943-2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Eleanor Mills
2012 Convention Color Section
The parade of pretty Short Wings (award winners) 29
They might not be award winners --- but they’re
beautiful! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
And here are some of the people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Club Web Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46-47
Membership Report
More news from the mail bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Eleanor Mills
Bylaws review
The bylaws of the SWPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
The bylaws of the SWPC Education Foundation . .63
A note on the 2012 decals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
L. McLaughlin
Proficient Pilot: Managing risk in Short Wing
operations, revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Lynn Jensen
Southwest Regional 2012
Revisit Denver for the SW Regional! . . . . . . . . . . .72
Kent O’Kelly
Technical Corner
An addition to the tie-down article in the
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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March-April issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
L. McLaughlin
How much does it cost to restore a Tri-Pacer? . . . .74
Kent O’Kelly
More on installing light-weight high torque
starters on a Tri-Pacer --- an alternative . . . . . . .76
Jim Oeffinger
A letter to the FAA about CE-07-06 . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Miguel Azevedo
Stewart Systems report card ... from the
perspective of a ‘first-timer’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Kent O’Kelly
Regional Chapter Reports
Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Marc Stewart
Carolinas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Steve Culler
Columbia River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Brian McGlynn
Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
J. Bednarchik
Mid-America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Maxwell, Arrow
Northeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Andy Seligson
Ohio Buckeye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
P. Lautzenheiser
Maintenance Tip (Ohio Buckeye newsletter) . . .99
Ralph Gutowski
Short Wings Over Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Peter Lubig
News from SWPN advertisers
Wag-Aero’s newest catalog a tribute to the
company’s late founder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Bruce’s Custom Covers now has a new website &
..Bruce’s Covers protect aircraft from summer
maladies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Avemco president spoke to Alaska airmen . . . . . . .105
More scenes from Convention 2012
The Meet and Greet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Breakfasts at the hotel were another chance to
socialize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
The activities are fun but the convention is
really about people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Classified Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115-119
Next issue deadline (new deadline schedule) . . . . . . . . .119
Chapter Presidents listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120-122
Index to advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Membership Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Gift membership form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
You probably have noticed some changes in format for this issue. Hope
you like them. Vice president Kurt Selbert suggested some updating of the
style, and I managed to work a few in this time. You’ll also notice a few
more pages this issue, caused by the convention news and the reprinting of
the bylaws. Be sure to read the bylaws and make suggestions for changes.
(It’s your chance to make a difference for the club!)
Notice also the new deadline schedule and get your stories and photos and
ads to the SWPN for the September-October issue as soon as you can. (I
realize this issue may not get to you in time to remind you that July 20 is
the deadline, but after that, we’ll stick to the deadline)!
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President’s Report
Convention
news and
what’s new for
the Short Wing
Piper News
By Peter Lubig
When this issue arrives in your mailbox (late July), it will be considered to be old news; the 2012 convention is over along with Air
Venture. The Board has agreed to have the Short Wing News available sooner, one month earlier. This way the members can enjoy reading the magazine for the current time period.
Let me explain. When your new News arrives toward the end of
every second month the date will be for the next two following months.
This can also help in many other ways, such as the chapters can post
their upcoming events for the next following months so members can
take advantage of them. The SW News has become more than just a
nice collection of stories about members and their flying adventures,
aircraft rebuilds and fly-in lunches; it’s about the great people who
have forged lifetime friendships and having this type of media is what
keeps us connected. The Short Wing News is about you and your family, so please write to us, let us into your cockpit, talk about the latest
adventure that you took.
I started writing this report before the start of the convention and
after learning from Eleanor that the very last date that the final issue
would be sent for print would fall just after the convention, I decided
to finalize my final report after the convention.
So, here it is, a brief outline of events. Convention: over 140 club
members and friends attended, and 31 aircraft flew in. The events and
tours went as planned and everyone enjoyed their time. We did have
a very well organized “Dawn Patrol” on the Wednesday morning that
14 Short Wings took advantage of. I was invited to occupy the Co-Pilot
seat with Fred Mayes in his Pacer. It was very impressive to see all 14
Short Wings lined up in front of the terminal building at the ready for
a crew briefing at 06:00 when the sun was just starting to shed its
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light over the mountains just east of the airport. John Kobbeman presented a very professional crew briefing that morning (and the
evening before) on the ramp. The idea was to split into 4 groups, each
led by veteran locals to guide us. The first stop was to land on the
Great Salt Lake Mud Flats and then continue to Fremont Island,
Promontory Point, north to Rozel Bay and back south to Moint.
The convention Dawn Patrol, bright and early on the salt flats
The flight continued north to where the last spike was laid, and then
back to Ogden-Hinckley airport; the time enroute was a quick 2 hours.
Thanks to John and his crew we were able to witness some of the wonders of Utah. The rest of the convention was as planned, seminars
throughout the Wednesday, Poker run and Banquet on the last day.
Details of these events are elsewhere in this issue.
One of the highlights of each convention is the aircraft judging. This
is where members can show off their Short Wings that they have
spent many hours laboring to make their planes the top showpieces
that they are. Inside this issue you will find details of the winners.
The Board completed their annual meeting and we are pleased to
announce positive results, the finances are in the black, the Education
Fund is well financed (see Larry’s report in the board meeting news),
the position of the Treasurer is filled with Kaaren McGlynn. Welcome,
Kaaren, we look forward to working with you. Many thanks to Garry
Butler for his many years of support in this key position.
Congratulations to Alan Arrow, voted in as the new President of the
Mid-America Chapter with Fred Mayes as Vice. Their June letter
indicated that they had a successful meeting held at east Kansas CityGrain Valley Airport. Alan has suggested a program called “Building
Bridges”: The idea is to reach out to our neighboring states chapters
and link up with those members to see what they are doing, tell them
what is happening in our chapter and increase not only the number of
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people at each meeting but also interest. Thanks, Alan --- I think this
could be a great concept for all Chapters to consider.
On a sad note, long time member and past President, Steve Marsh,
of both the Club and Mid-America Chapter, passed away during the
week of our Convention. Steve will be missed; he was Mr. Short Wing
Club. Steve always wore the badge of the Club on his sleeve and whenever he had a chance he would gladly talk the SWPC. Last year, Paul
Irwin and I traveled to his home airport and enjoyed a visit with him.
Website login problems? If you are having problems please email
Garry Butler and he will set you straight. Don’t wait and boil about it,
call him. We are here to help.
SWPC FREE Gift Giveaway, keep on checking the forums for this:
we will be starting fulltime on this program in the next few months.
Exciting times are happening with your Club and changes are happening quickly, so please visit the website for any updates. (Also, we
are on Facebook)
In conclusion, file that Flight Plan, go to new airports that you have
not ventured to before, and most important, have fun.
Peter Lubig
President, SWPC
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Who’s new?
As promised, here’s your list of the
latest new members, those who joined
after 4-19-12 and by 7-4-12:
Michael Apel, Dortmund, Germany
Clyde Barker, Aurora, Colo.
Jack Bates, Viola, Kan.
Dennis Baxter, Winnebago, Minn.
Gary Bettig, Oneida, N.Y.
Robert Cardinal, White Rock,
British Columbia
Louis Churchville, West Linn, Ore.
Jeremy Curtis, Fairbanks, Alaska
Michael Ellis, Geneseo, Ill.
Randall Erickson, Kodiak, Alaska
Tom Garden, Baldwinsville, N.Y.
Andy Helmholdt, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Christopher Iriarte, Albuquerque,
N.M.
Mark Jamieson, South Bend, Ind.
Tse I Liao, Centro, Curitibia, Parana,
Brazil
Michael
Lustig,
Dollard-desOrmeaux, Quebec
Charles Martel, Hammond, Ontario
Craig Moskowitz, Sheffield, Mass.
Nashua Jet Aviation, LLC, Nashua,
N.H.
Daniel Perschau, Glencoe, Minn.
Terry Propst, Pevely, Mo.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rehmel,
Liberty, Ind.
Mike Rigg, Riverside, Ala.
Tineke Schaper, AS Enschede, The
Netherlands
Walt Smith, Villa Rica, Ga.
Michael Speck, Kerrville, Texas
Hans Swenson, Gooding, Idaho
Mr. and Mrs. David Wessel,
Brainerd, Minn.
Kirby Wiseman, Kempner, Texas
Welcome to the Club!
Please make yourselves known to the other members by your
participation --- come to the convention in Saratoga, N.Y., next
July; identify yourselves there as First Timers and join in the
fun! Join the local chapter nearest you and attend the fly-ins
(you could even win a great prize!) 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 -- make it better!
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2012 Convention
Executive
Board
business
meetings
held
By Eleanor Mills
President Peter Lubig, conducting
his first Convention Executive Board
Meeting, found out that the leaders of
the club have definite opinions and
that they don’t always agree. Spirited
discussion on several issues led to
adjourning the planned 2-4 meeting on
Monday at about 5:30 with a plan to
reconvene on Tuesday. After 3-4 hours
on Tuesday, the meeting was concluded. But a later development meant yet
another session for the board following the membership business meeting
on Wednesday, this one conducted by
vice president Kurt Selbert since Peter
had left that morning to attend his
daughter’s high school graduation.
Attending the meeting on Monday
were Peter, Kurt, secretary Art
Weisberger, Education Foundation
director Larry Jenkins, at-large board
members Fred Mayes and David
Hedditch, non-voting staff members
librarian Claire Karlson and membership chairman Eleanor Mills, with
guests Sally and David Luse, Cliff Van
Vleet, Kent O’Kelly, Brian McGlynn,
Lew Reinkens, Mark Bourcier (who
was the convention technical expert).
Treasurer Garry Butler was unable
The 2012 convention patch!
to attend because of a planned surgery
on his daughter, and at-large board
member Andy Seligson was unable to
attend because he teaches school and
east coast schools were still in session.
The first item of business was
Peter’s list of items accomplished by
the club during the past year:
What we have accomplished
*Vice president’s position filled by
Kurt Selbert, who has been great
working with the board, coming up
with new ideas and working on a new
brochure for the club
*Addition of a new board member,
Fred Mayes
*Board members assigned to help
with different initiatives of the club
*Website changes including updating all names and addresses of board
members on the website; establishing
a new thread on the forums for geographic locations for local chapters to
post fly-ins and reports; listing the
STC’s and 337s on the members’ only
section in the Tools section; trying to
keep updates on the home page.
*Purchased new domain names for
the club and discussing changing the
URL
of
the
website
to
ShortWingPiperClub.org to eliminate
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It was a unique experience for treasurer Garry Butler when he
was carried around the room (via cell phone) in order to be part of
the executive board meeting. Above, Art holds the microphone
close to the phone Peter is holding. Claire is at right. Part of the time
Garry was driving and had to plead for time to pull off the road.
confusion by non-members
*Around 35 lapsed members
renewed with the 50 percent discount
offer between the dates of July to
December 31
*2012 Members decal produced
*Laura Butler has supplied a high
resolution logo for the club, which is
on the cover of this issue
*Established an FTP site to be used
by anyone wanting to submit photos
for use in the SWPN
*Established an SWPC free gift
give-away to encourage members to
visit the website forums. The first
drawing resulted in over 50 members
participating. We are waiting for a free
gift card from Concorde Battery to
start a new drawing
*Established discounts on certain
items that could be used by the club
member. The first one was the LED
nav/strobe and taxi and landing lights,
with approximately 25 landing lights
and five sets of nav/strobe systems.
The second offer was $50 off a VG kit.
*Began the process of encouraging
more interaction between the
Technical Advisors and the members
by asking the TA’s to post their advice
on the forums and in the SWPN.
*Began talks with a group of Young
Eagles in Florida to support the building of a Clipper; talked with Piper
Corporation regarding a working relationship for an STC for a shoulder harness (inertial style like a car seat belt);
talking with the EAA about a joint venture to have the SWPC and EAA advertise in each other’s magazines; initiated
a discussion with the Recreation
Aircraft Foundation to work together;
discussing with various vendors about
support for the club (Concorde Battery,
Aircraft Spruce, Cubcrafters, Dakota
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Club, and more); thinking about developing internal product support such as
Short Wing material, hats, jackets,
decals, new CD’s, etc.
In action at the meeting, the board:
*Agreed to set up a committee to
review the current bylaws of both the
club and the Education Foundation
and suggest changes. Kurt suggested
that people outside of the board would
have a fresh perspective and suggested
that the board ask for suggestions on
changes from members. The current
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Check out these great buys: Tips and Techniques CD; paint
scheme CD; Blueprints and Drawings CD (Volumes I and II);
Rigging CD (new),and a great variety of other items, including a
photo CD showing paint schemes --all at the club’s new webstore! at www.shortwing.org
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Sitting in on most of the board meeting sessions were (left to
right) Dave Luse, Lew Reinkens, Cliff Van Vleet, Mark Ohlau, and
Kent O’Kelly.
bylaws for both organizations are tions.
reprinted in this issue. Members are
*Agreed to set up a UPS and/or a
encouraged to read them and email Fed-Ex account for Claire to use for
secretary Art Weisberger with sugges- the library’s shipment of tools to mem-
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bers. Fred was asked as a board member to help her .
*Agreed to ask the treasurer to get a
credit card in the club’s name for use
by Eleanor or any other club officer,
establishing a $1,000 limit on charges.
At the continued meeting on
Tuesday, the same people were present, with the addition of guest Connie
Stevens, and —- at least for part of the
meeting —- treasurer Garry Butler
through his cell phone.
Garry reported that the club’s
finances are in the black for the year,
with approximately $5,000 more in
income than in expenses and that the
Education Fund had received income
during the year of $10,593, the amount
available for scholarships.
Larry, who is responsible for gathering information and recommending
scholarship students to the board,
asked that the board give each of the
four new scholarship students $2,000
and $2,500 to the lone returning scholarship student. The board approved
Larry’s recommendation. The five students will be given a complimentary
membership in the club as well as their
scholarship funds. (A brief rundown
on the students is elsewhere in this
issue.)
In other action at the meeting, the
board:
*Approved a budget of $1,000 for
the gift-drawings established to
encourage forum participation by the
members. The amount is to be used to
purchase gifts not donated by the vendors.
*Approved a $500 budget for another drawing to encourage participation
at chapter fly-ins and volunteers at Sun
‘n Fun and Oshkosh. An entry into the
drawing will be given each time a
member attends a chapter fly-in and
for each 2-hour volunteer shift at Sun
‘n Fun and Oshkosh.
*Approved moving the deadline for
submissions to the Short Wing Piper
News up a month in order to make it
possible for members to receive their
magazines close to the first of the issue
(for example, to get the July-August
issue close to the first of July, rather
than in August). The new deadlines
will be September 20 for the
November-December
issue;
November 20 for the JanuaryFebruary issue; January 20 for the
March-April issue; March 20 for the
May-June issue; May 20 for the JulyAugust issue, and July 20 for the
September-October issue.
*Heard an update from Lew
Reinkens, president of the Northern
California Chapter, who is working
with Joe Cronan on plans for the 2014
convention to be held at Santa Maria,
Calif. Lew reported that the hotel is on
the airfield, with tiedowns right outside the hotel. They are looking at
tours to some of the many attractions
in the area —- Disneyland, Knott’s
Berry Farm, the Lompoc Cub fly-in,
etc.
*Established a promotion budget
with a $1,000 limit in the form of a
petty cash fund to develop items to
benefit the club.
*Approved setting up a committee
including Dave Hedditch and Kent
O’Kelly to pursue investment opportunities for the club’s funds.
*Approved a steering committee
composed of past presidents to provide
advice on club business, especially
noting things that have been tried that
didn’t pan out.
At the hastily called board meeting
following the membership business
meeting, the board approved Kaaren
O’Rourke McGlynn as the club’s new
treasurer. Kaaren holds an accounting
degree and her MBA, has worked in
the financial field for 18 years as a tax
accountant, is the CFO (chief financial
officer) for a non-profit and has taught
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Keep sending in stories and pictures to
SWPN, P.O. Box 10822, Springfield, Mo. 68508
or eleanormills@att.net
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At the third session of the
board meeting, Cliff Van Vleet
(standing) and Connie Stevens
(at right) introduced Kaaren
McGlynn to the board members
and outlined her qualifications
to be treasurer. Kaaren is shown
above and at left. Also pictured
above is Larry Jenkins.
accounting for 20 years. She was
unanimously approved by the board
members present —- Art, Kurt, Fred,
Larry, and Dave, with a telephone
approval before the meeting by Peter.
Your board members --- working hard to
make the club as efficient and attractive as
possible!
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2012 Convention
Membership business
meeting well attended
By Eleanor Mills
Presiding over the membership business meeting on Wednesday, vice president Kurt Selbert reviewed president
Peter Lubig’s list of what the club had
accomplished in the past year (see
Executive Board meeting for details)
and highlighted some of the actions the
board had taken.
Among announcements Kurt made
was that in an effort to reduce printing
costs, a survey will be taken of members to see if they would rather have
just a .pdf of the Short Wing Piper
News that they could read online or if
they want the hard copy presently
mailed to all members.
Kurt also urged members to read the
bylaws printed in this issue and make
suggestions for changes. Among those
working on the bylaws review are
member Mark Ohlau, past president
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Cliff Van Vleet, and secretary Art
Weisberger. Suggestions should be
sent to Art.
Kurt asked for volunteers from the
membership. In particular, the club
needs one more at-large board member.
An effort to get ideas from members
resulted in the establishment of a
unique email box. Anyone who has an
idea to increase membership or revenue or to make the club more satisfying to members is asked to use the
Online
Suggestion
Box:
swpcideas@gmail.com
A similar project involves a photo
history of our airplanes. Members are
urged to send photos of their Short
Wings, along with serial numbers and
tail
numbers,
to
swpcphotos@gmail.com These photos
will be added to the website.
In other business at the meeting,
Education Foundation director Larry
Jenkins gave a review of the scholarship students. Six applications, with
one student not meeting requirements
because of a grade point average, were
received and five were awarded scholarships. Larry noted that four of our
last year’s scholarship students graduated, Anthony Lalor, Devin Sirois,
Megan Daniels, and Michael
Gonzalez, who was chosen for OCS in
the Navy Flight program. The fifth
scholarship student, Linda Cochran,
refunded to the Education Foundation
unused scholarship funds that
remained when the school she was
attending ceased to offer her courses.
Larry challenged each member to
give at least $10 to the scholarship
fund. He noted that last year’s challenge to the chapters to each donate
$100 resulted in some chapters donating $200 and $300. “I am very appreciative of your support,” he added.
Dave Hedditch proposed that the
club begin giving discounts for multiple year memberships.
Denise Anderson reported that the
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silent auction was continuing but that
the raffle was over. She urged all winners to write thank you notes to the
donors. At the banquet Thursday
night, the beautiful handmade glass
bowl donated by the artist, Kaaren
O’Rourke McGlynn, was won by Tee
Rush and Robert “Obie” Oberholzer
won the Texaco model airplane.
2012 Convention
Five scholarships awarded
By Eleanor Mills
Larry Jenkins, director of the Short
Wing Piper Education Foundation,
recommended five students —- four
first timers and one returning student
—- for scholarships for the coming
year.
The five students approved were:
*Danyelle Fuhrman,Webster, Minn.,
a student at the University of North
Dakota who will be entering her senior
year there, is on track to be an air traffic controller. Larry noted that she is
an exceptional student with a grade
point average of 3.772. Danyelle has
already begun her career, serving an
internship at the Minneapolis Airport
Traffic Control Tower.
*Michael W. “Duke” Davis,
Knoxville, Tenn., a junior at the
University of Tennessee, is pursuing a
degree in logistics with aviation applications. He has a current GPA of 3.21.
Michael’s essay sums up what many in
the club and perhaps all the scholarship winners feel as he says,
“Regardless of where I end up in my
aviation career, I am confident that I
will wake up every morning looking
forward to going to work. After all,
flying for a living sure does beat working for a living. As I leave the ground
for every flight, I will most definitely
feel those fond feelings creep up on me
as if they have been waiting years to
do so. The same familiar feelings I
have always gotten and the same ones
I will always get: pointing my nose up,
climbing and climbing into the yonder
skies. Freedom.”
*Tyler Keith Densford, Olive
Branch, Miss., who will be a freshman
at Delta State University in Cleveland,
Miss., will pursue a degree in flight
operations with the goal of becoming
an airline pilot. Tyler earned a high
school GPA of 3.98. In his essay, Tyler
says, “As a young boy, the moment
that I stepped aboard a Southwest
Airline Boeing 737 with a destination
of Phoenix Sky Harbor International
Airport, I knew that flying was in my
blood. In my school classrooms, I
would constantly be scolded for drawing airplanes during the teacher’s lectures, and my young classmates would
give me blank stares when reciting the
phonetic alphabet.”
*Wesley Carter, Memphis, Tenn.,
will be a freshman at Middle
Tennessee
State
University,
Murfreesboro, Tenn., with the goal of
becoming an air traffic controller.
Wesley has already begun his study of
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that career, having served an internship
in the Memphis Tower for the past two
years. He was recommended for the
scholarship by his tower chief and
holds a high school GPA of 3.3265.
Wesley has a true passion for his future
career, saying in his essay, “Today I
realize that I was led to the internship
for a reason. Before getting to know
air-traffic I overall had chosen to be a
pilot, but once I had gotten experience
I chose to be a controller. I decided to
pursue this career because I simply fell
in love with it. Although it may be
stressful at times, I realized that having
the job as an Air Traffic Controller is
probably one of the most exciting jobs
a person can have. In the end, I am
glad I decided to go through the internship because I most likely would’ve
missed my calling. For me, the career
is simply my dream job and soon it
will come true.”
*Timothy Stephen Cuff, Washougal,
Wash., who will be a junior at Central
Washington University at Big Bend
Community College, Moses Lake,
Wash., wants to be a commercial airline pilot. He’s a young man on a fast
track, having graduated from high
school with a running start on his college program, earning both his high
school diploma and an associate
degree with a GPA of 3.455. Brian
McGlynn, president of the Columbia
River Chapter which sponsored Tim,
explained that Tim completed his junior and senior year of high school at
Clark College in Vancouver, earning
his diploma and degree. In his essay,
Tim says he wants to be a professional
pilot flying cargo around the country
or around the world. “This career has
been the ideal dream of mine for the
past several years, and I hold it in
regard above all others for several reasons: my undying passion for aviation,
the allure of flying around the country,
and the added excitement of hauling
many different types of cargo,” he
said. “All in all, I want a career as a
cargo pilot because it is exciting. I get
to do what I love, flying, experience
travelling to new places, and confront
the many challenges unique to that of a
cargo pilot.”
Tyler, Wesley, Timothy, and Michael
were awarded $2,000 scholarships,
with Danyelle receiving a $2,500
scholarship.
As Larry noted, these are exceptional students who will make the SWPC
proud!
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2012 Convention
Convention awards given
at closing banquet
By Eleanor Mills
As usual, one of the highlights of the
convention was the annual awards
announcement at the closing banquet
Thursday evening.
Beautiful award plaques were given
to the airplane award winners and to
the
keynote
speaker,
Galen
Hanselman, who talked about some of
the unique people and places he had
found in his survey of all of the back
country strips in Utah. The plaques
were of stained glass and were handmade by Cathy Perry, who also
designed the convention patch and the
shirts and caps available to convention-goers.
Judges Linda Cochran, Doug
Stewart, David Hedditch, Adrian
Geiger, Ted Fields, and Brian
McGlynn judged 11 aircraft. Winner
of the farthest flown (a familiar award
for this winner) went to Jack and
Sandy Madden of Frostproof, Fla.
In addition, Tee Rush, Linda
Cochran, Kaaren O’Rourke McGlynn,
Claire Karlson, Linda Parish, Barb
Geiger, and Candy Butler judged the
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ladies’ choice.
The beautiful plaques for beautiful
Short Wings went to:
Best Colt, Kurt Selbert, Roseville,
Calif., who is also the club vice-president
Best PA-22/20, Krystal and Kevin
Newmayer, Ogden, Utah.
Best PA-22, Kent and Deborah
O’Kelly, Castle Rock, Colo.
Best PA-20, Mark Ohlau, Sutter
Creek, Calif.
Ladies Choice, Fred and Bonnie
Mayes, Lebanon, Mo.
Best non-Piper, Jim and Candy
Butler, Evansville, Ind., for their
Ercoupe
And finally, the award everyone had
been waiting for, the Grand Champion
of this year’s convention went to Roni
McPherson’s Clipper. Roni and her
husband, Stewart, live in Cardiff By
The Sea, Calif.
Bill Kendrick presented the
Oklahoma Utilitarian Award (for what
Bill called a Short Wing that was old,
used, abused, and ugly but airworthy)
to Jack and Sandy Madden. Bill also
said that Jim Butler was being given an
honorary award for Egregious Error in
Airmanship (for an airplane accident
that did not result in bloodshed, an
award several members have received
from Bill in the past).
The Chapter of the Year award went
this year to the Ohio Buckeye Chapter.
The award plaque reads: In recognition of contributions to the Short Wing
Piper Club, the Ohio Buckeye Chapter
is hereby awarded the SWPC
Outstanding Chapter of the Year award
for the year 2012. In addition to planning and hosting two of the most
remembered SWPC annual conventions (1998 and 2010) the Buckeye
chapter has an outstanding monthly
newsletter and has continued to have
strong support from their members,
who have attended many of the annual
Speaker Galen Hanselman
was honored with a thank you
gift of his own special plaque
created by artist Cathy Perry.
The plaque is modeled after the
trophies given to the aircraft
award winners (who are shown
in the color section).
conventions. In addition chapter members and officers have maintained an
attractive and informative website,
have contributed to the welfare of private aviation by cooperating with
other aviation organizations by holding and participating in joint fly-ins
and activities, and have in general
been valuable members of the club,
contributing articles to the Short Wing
Piper News and serving in positions of
leadership for the club.” Tom
Anderson accepted the plaque on
behalf of the chapter.
Two other major awards were given
at the convention as two more members were inducted into the Short Wing
Piper Hall of Honor —- Art
Weisberger and Garry Butler. Garry
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was not present but Clyde Grant volunteered to deliver the plaque to him.
The plaques given to both members
listed the qualifications for being chosen: “In recognition of your outstanding contribution to the Short Wing
Piper Club and its goal to maintain
and preserve the Piper Vagabonds,
Clippers, Pacers, Colts and Tri-Pacers,
you have been chosen by the club to
have your name included on the Short
Wing Piper Club Honor Roll.” The
plaques also listed the previously recognized members of the Honor Roll:
Bob Fuller, Steve Marsh Ed Wach,
Kurt Schneider, Larry Smith, Lonnie
McLaughlin, George Fruehauf, Iris
Morris, Frank Rush, Chuck Lewis,
Bob and Eleanor Mills, Clyde Grant,
Kent O’Kelly, John Wood, Ralph
Gutowski, Tom Anderson, Cliff Van
Vleet, John Beck, and Doug Stewart.
In addition, Art’s plaque reads:
“Your selection was based on your
outstanding contributions to the club
and its members through the years as
secretary for 24 years (and counting),
your attendance at most of our conventions, and your cheerfully stepping
in to speak or chair meetings as needed. Your outstanding service to our
country as a United States Marine is
also deeply appreciated and the stories
you have to tell about that service —and about flying —- have added to the
fellowship we experience in the club.”
Garry’s plaque reads: “Your selection was based on your outstanding
contributions to the club and its members through the years as President
(2003-2005), an at-large member of
the board (2005-2009), and treasurer
since 2009, along with your faithful
service in helping make the Michigan
Chapter one of the premier chapters of
the club. The Commemorative History
Book which you spearheaded stands
as one of the prime achievements of
our club. You stand out from the
Club
secretary
Art
Weisberger shows his Hall of
Honor plaque awarded at the
banquet. Art said, “How come I
didn’t know about this?” With
two board members (the other
was Garry Butler) being honored Peter conducted an email
balloting without including the
honorees.
crowd as being one who ‘never says
no’ when asked to serve.”
And
finally,
Bill
Thomas,
Hendersonville, N.C., won the first
prize of the Poker Run, with Robert
“Obie” Oberholzer taking second, and
Bill Lynch, Neosho, Mo., taking third.
Bill’s winning hand was a full house
of aces and 10s (I think). Doug
Conger, poker run director, reported
that the poker run raised $270 for the
Education Foundation.
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John and Linda Parish, co-directors of the 2012 convention,
were given a thank you gift by the club of a signed print of aircraft
artist Barry Ross’s painting that featured a Tri-Pacer.
The meeting closed with the
announcement of the Southwest
Regional, to be held September 12-16
in Denver, Color, with prime attractions being a trip to Georgetown,
Colo., and a tour of Univair.
Following
immediately
after
Eleanor’s announcement of the death
of long-time member and past president Steve Marsh, the convention was
called to a close in his name.
The 2012 Convention is over,
but plans are really shaping up
for the 2013 convention in
Saratoga, N.Y. (July 1-4 with
many arrivals the weekend
before and departures on the
5th), and the 2014 convention
in Santa Maria, Calif. Keep
reading for details of our 2013
reunion. Plan to be there!
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2013 Convention
You’ll want to be a part of the
Saratoga convention!
By Andy Seligson
andytuba@optonline.net
As President of the Northeast
Chapter and a board member of the
Short Wing Piper Club, it is my and
the chapter’s pleasure to invite you to
the 2013 SWPC Convention to be held
in Saratoga Springs, New York. Our
hotel for this convention is the
Holiday Inn Saratoga Springs.
The airport is Saratoga County
(5B2), an uncontrolled field with 2
4000 foot-plus runways. Fuel is available (100LL) self serve or from the
truck. We will have a tiedown area for
the club. As with most conventions,
bring your own ropes and tiedown
stakes. There will be no tent camping
on the field, due to environmental regulations. We are working on compiling
a list of nearby campsites.
A hospitality tent at the airport will
be in operation for your convenience.
Shuttle service will be ongoing from
the airport to the Holiday Inn.
While the hotel is holding rooms
for us from Sunday June 30 to
Thursday night July 4, the opening
“welcome reception” will be held on
Monday July 1 at 6:00 pm. The room
rates are $139 ( a great price for this
area and time of year!). You can make
your reservations three ways: Call the
hotel directly at 518-584 – 4550, toll
free at 800 – Holiday (465-43290 or at
WWW.saratogahi.com. Mention our
convention code – PIP. (NOTE: The
hotel can’t accept online reservations until 11 months before the date
of the convention!)
Saratoga is a great town for a con-
vention and our hotel couldn’t be better! It is a very short walk to the center
of town. This town has it all! Great
restaurants, fast food restaurants,
museums, galleries, shopping, and a
fantastic park adjacent to the hotel.
Saratoga is rich in cultural, historical,
and recreational places. The world
famous Saratoga Spa, Racetrack and
casino, Saratoga Performing Arts
Center, Saratoga National Golf
Course, and numerous museums are
very close to the Holiday Inn. The airport is a 5 minute van ride from the
hotel.
If you go on the hotel’s website, you
can see all the amenities including:
restaurant, lounge/bar, indoor and outdoor pools, health spa/gym, conference and meeting rooms, business center (computers, fax, printer, etc.), and
comfortable rooms with all you would
expect from Holiday Inns. My wife
Gloria and I stayed here a month ago
when the chapter toured the facility.
We were quite pleased with all it
offered and its closeness to everything
nearby.
Speaking of nearby, one evening
activity will be a dinner cruise on Lake
George, about a 30 minute ride. We
will probably have a tour of the
Saratoga National Battlefield in the
nearby Saratoga National Park. There
are two outlet malls nearby. If you
want to take a leisurely flight, Lake
Placid, N.Y., is about 60 minutes north
in the Adirondacks, The great Basin
Harbor Club with its 3000 foot turf
runway is on the shore of Lake
Champlain in Vermont. The Empire
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Andy Seligson is shown at
left with a statue in Saratoga,
which is known for its horse racing. Above is a statue at the
Museum of Dance in Saratoga.
On the facing page, Gloria
Fields is shown at an ice cream
shop!
State Aero Museum is on the
Schenectady airport. A flight down the
Hudson can take you to the Old
Rhinebeck Aerodrome (best to fly into
Kingston, N.Y.)
We are planning a fun poker run
(fly/drive). Speakers, vendors, and
seminars are all in the works. We hope
to have many, many door prizes from
many, many donors. Our banquet will
be on Thursday night July 4. The city
of Saratoga holds a spectacular fireworks display in adjacent Congress
Park. We will coordinate our banquet
so we can enjoy the fireworks.
If you are flying in commercially,
Albany, N.Y., is served by all the
major airlines. Saratoga is also serviced by AMTRACK and Greyhound.
We are working on a SWPC group rate
from Hertz and Enterprise car rentals.
The Northeast chapter is working on a
convention logo. Hopefully, we will
have it finalized by the end of the summer. Convention registration fees will
be the same as this year’s Ogden,
Utah, convention. We will be offering
convention shirts and caps with the
logo.
I realize that the date for this convention includes the Fourth of July. We
urge you to treat this convention as an
aviation vacation at a great destination.
I mentioned several interesting places
to fly to within an hour of Saratoga. I
remember attending the convention in
Springfield, Missouri, and flying into
Gaston’s Resort. I had read about this
neat place for years and found myself
nearby; it was great! At the convention in Denver, Gloria and I were able
to fly to Aspen and Leadville. If you
fly to Saratoga, the beaches of Long
Island, New Jersey, Martha’s
Vineyard, Block Island, Cape Cod, and
Maine are within easy reach in a Short
Wing Piper (or any other GA aircraft).
The Adirondack, Catskill, Green, and
White Mountains are great to explore.
O.K., they’re not the Rockies, but are
worth exploring by air (not as high!).
We are really excited to be hosting
this convention. I would be remiss if I
didn’t give a lot of credit to our treasurer, Rico Cannone, for doing a lot of
leg work. Rico lives in Saratoga and
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along with Steve Sevits (also nearby)
has done a lot of investigating all areas
of this event. We have hosted two very
popular conventions in the Catskills
and this Saratoga convention is shap-
ing up as the best we’ve done! I hope
you will join us.
You
can
reach
me
at:
andytuba@optonline.net or H. 914337-2968/ C. 914-522-3341 – Andy
Horse racing, golf, flying, a dinner cruise
on a lake . . . and an ice cream shop! What
more could we ask for a great convention
site?
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2013 Convention
Saratoga offers a great many
attractions and activities
The brochure describing Saratoga,
N.Y., site of our 2013 convention, lists
a lot of features that SWPC convention-goers will enjoy.
The colorful brochure handed out at
this year’s convention included a
bunch of photographs of activities to
live up to Saratoga’s claim to Health,
History, and Horses. And for the
SWPC convention, we can add Short
Wings.
What’s available in Saratoga? Here
Short Wing Piper Club Web Store
(where profits go to the SWPC Educational
Foundation)
www.shortwing.org
are some of the activities listed:
*Ride the carousel, see the historic
Canfield Casino or take a stroll in
Congress Park. Then travel to the
Saratoga National Battlefield and
Monument for a walk through history
and learn why the Battle of Saratoga is
called the turning point of the
Revolutionary War.
*Enjoy a round of golf at the
Saratoga National Golf Club, ranked
No. 2 public golf course in New York
State by Golf Digest.
*Shop and dine downtown, on and
off Broadway. Or take a trip to the
Adirondacks and visit the Great
Escape and Splashwater Kingdom.
Take a ride on the Lake George steamboats, just 45 minutes from Saratoga!
*Visit the Saratoga Casino and
Raceway for video gaming, dining,
and live harness racing. Or, stop in to
Vapor, a premier nightclub located at
the Casino and Raceway.
*Explore over 10 historic museums,
including the National Museum of
Racing and Hall of Fame, the Saratoga
Automobile Museum, the Tang
Museum, the Hyde Museum, and the
Saratoga Museum of Dance.
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*Relax in a mineral bath or get a
massage or spa treatment at one of the
many lovely and luxurious spas.
*Take a trip to Saratoga Lake to take
in the beautiful views, go kayaking, or
enjoy one of the many restaurants for
lakeside dining.
And Saratoga is a hub for a greatmany other places convention-goers
might want to explore before or after
the convention:
*25 minutes to scenic Lake George
*1 hour to the Green Mountains of
Vermont and 20 minutes to the
Adirondack Mountains of New York
State.
*Two scenic hours ot the Olympic
Village, Lake Placid.
*New York City, Boston, and
Montreal within 3 hours drive!
Summer events at the Saratoga
Performing Arts Center include music
concerts, a jazz festival, the New York
City Ballet, the Philadelphia
Orchestra, and a wine and food festival.
The Saratoga convention and visitor’s bureau website is www.discoversaratoga.org
Club stalwart’s death reported
Steve Marsh, 1943-2012
By Eleanor Mills
Word came on the last day of this
year’s convention in Ogden, Utah, that
the club had lost another of what Andy
Seligson referred to as the “stalwarts”
of the organization. Steve Marsh,
Independence, Mo., was found dead at
his home that morning by his friend
and fellow Mid-America Chapter and
club member Lynn Banks, when a telephone call the day before and another
that morning failed to receive an
answer.
Steve was involved with the Short
Wing Piper Club almost from the very
start. At almost the same time that Bob
Fuller and a group of Short Wing owners on the east coast established the
Tri-Pacer Owners Club (which later
became the Short Wing Piper Club),
Steve and some of his fellow Short
Wing owners in the Kansas City area
established the Kansas City Tri-Pacer
Association. Both clubs began in 1978
and merged in 1981.
Steve was named recording secre-
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tary of the Tri-Pacer Owners Club in
1982. In 1983 he took the newly
formed position of national chapter
coordinator and for the next eight
years proclaimed “Chapters, Chapters,
Chapters!” in almost every issue of the
Short Wing Piper News as he worked
tirelessly to establish regional chapters
all over the United States. He was also
deeply involved with the Mid-America
Chapter, serving as president almost its
entire history. Steve was elected vice
president of the club in 1990.
In 1991, Steve took over the presidency of the Short Wing Piper Club.
George Fruehauf, whom Steve
replaced as president, noted Steve’s
contributions to the club: “Since that
date (1981) the Mid-America Chapter
of the Short Wing Piper Club has been
our largest and one of the most active
chapters in the club. The Arkansas
Razorback Chapter, the Great Plains
Chapter, the Hawkeye Chapter, the
Nebraska Cornhusker Chapter, and the
Oklahoma Chapter are direct descendents of the Mid-America Chapter.”
In 1987, Steve was named to the
club’s Honor Roll, along with Bob
Fuller, Lonnie McLaughlin, Larry
Smith, Ed Wach, Kurt Schneider, and
George Fruehauf. For many years,
these seven men who had done so
much to create the Short Wing Piper
Club were the only members on the
honor roll, and although others have
been added in recent years, these original members have a distinctive place
of honor in the club’s history.
In 1998 Steve was given a lifetime
membership in the club in honor of his
many years of service.
In 2003, at the convention in
Springfield, Mo., hosted by the MidAmerica Chapter, Steve’s 21Z was
named Best Tri-Pacer. According to
Steve’s obituary, he also loved baseball, trains and Scottie dogs. (For several years, the Scotties traveled with
Steve’s
sister
and her
family
c h o s e
this early
photo of
Steve for
the obituary.
Steve and
his parents to conventions and then
with Steve by himself.)
The obituary notes that he obtained
his pilot’s license in 1972 and his first
Short Wing in 1973.
For many years, Iris Morris of
Florida and Steve were the only members of the club who had not missed a
convention. Unfortunately, both were
forced to miss conventions in recent
years because of health problems.
Steve had a tradition of closing each
convention with a motion to adjourn
this year’s convention and reconvene
at the next year’s convention. Garry
Butler, Attica, Mich., a past president
and most recently treasurer of the club,
said, “Since Steve used to close all the
conventions, it would be nice if his
name were somehow forever linked to
the closing of each convention.”
I don’t know how it will be done, but
I have a feeling that no one who knew
Steve will hear the closing of our conventions without thinking of Steve.
As Peter says in his President’s
Report in this issue, “Steve will be
missed; he was Mr. Short Wing Club.
Steve always wore the badge of the
club on his sleeve and whenever he
had a chance he would gladly talk the
SWPC.”
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2012 Convention
The parade of pretty
Short Wings!
Our cover plane, including the tail this time, is Roni
MacPherson’s Clipper, N5393H.
Make a difference for your club: swell the attendance at
next year’s convention, enlarge the membership of a local
chapter, add to the fun at a chapter or regional fly-in (and
qualify for a great prize), send in a donation to the library or
the club’s Education Foundation, volunteer, nominate, vote,
write a story and send it in to SWPN . . . It’s YOUR club! Make
a difference!
Send stories and photos to SWPN, PO Box 10822,
Springfield, MO 65808 or email them to eleanormills@att.net
and attach the photos. Or use the club’s new FTP site (see the
front of this issue for directions!)
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Best Tri-Pacer, in a dramatic air-to-air shot by Peter Lubig,
belongs to Kent and Deborah O’Kelly, although probably grandson
Garrett Bourcier is the one flying with Kent in the photo of N3119Z,
also known as Headwinds.
Ladies Choice N7478K belongs to Fred and Bonnie Mayes of
Lebanon, Mo. The Pacer has been in the family almost since the day
she came off the line at Lock Haven, having been purchased by
Fred’s father from the original owner. Peter Lubig also took this
photo.
Put your Short Wing (and yourself) in the picture for next summer’s convention in Saratoga, New York! Great things are being
planned by the Northeast Chapter and they’re expecting you to
attend!
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Here’s another of Peter’s air-to-air photos, taken during the convention. N5804Z took top honors for Colts and is owned by club vice
president Kurt Selbert.
Jack and Sandy Madden once again took honors for having
flown the farthest to the convention, having flown N8879C all the
way from Frostproof, Fla.
Short Wings can go the distance for you!
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Taking Best Pacer honors was this beautiful PA-20 owned by
Mark Ohlau, with Peter taking the photo,
Kevin and Krystal Newmayer took the trophy for Best PA-22/20
with N5716D.
If you know a Short Wing owner or lover
who is not a member, ask him or her to join
--- be a spreader of the Short Wing gospel!
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Jim and Candy Butler, once the proud owners of Short Wing
Candy Stripe, now fly an Ercoupe, N3644H, which took top honors
in the non-Piper category.
They might not be award winners . . . but they’re beautiful!
N4763A brought three members of the Hunt family to the convention, with Bryan Hunt, Rockford, Ill., piloting the PA-22/20-160
with passengers Wally and Zack.
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N2746P probably felt lonely during the convention, because
owners John and Linda Parish, convention co-directors, were obviously too busy even to go out to the airport and pat their Short Wing.
Kim and Vicky Matthews, Ogden, Utah, own N1514A. Kim took
advantage of the convention to renew his lapsed membership.
Larry Taylor, Roy, Utah, was another local flyer who exhibited his
Short Wing, N8279C.
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Mr. Shorty, otherwise known as N6953K, not only got his name
painted on his fuselage, but owners Stan and Carolyn McGrew,
Morgan, Utah, also put their names proudly on the airplane.
A fitting emblem for the 4th of July, which came right after the
convention, is N8637D, the PA-22-160 belonging to Carl Sheppard of
Farmington, Utah, who took advantage of the convention’s proximity to display his Short Wing.
One of our new scholarship students expressed his love for flying
with one word --- FREEDOM! At the convention, Lew Reinkens,
who is co-directing the 2014 convention, suggested making the 4
(or 5) F’s of the club 6 F’s by adding Forums. How about the 7 F’s -- Flying, Fellowship, Fun, Food, Family, Forums, Freedom!
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Converging on Ogden for the convention were Tri-Pacer N4511Z,
owned by Peter and Julie Jeffs of Baker City, Utah, and N3708P, the
PA-22-20 owned by Tim and Laura McDaniel, Hutchinson, Minn.
Short Wings came from the west coast, from the south, from the east
(although not too many from the east coast, unless you count Florida),
and from the north to the convention. Convention-goers included
Canadians, an Irishman who splits his time between Ireland and Arkansas,
and a good representation of the Mid-West, as well. Ages ranged from
babies to --- well, to a good sprinkling of gray hair! And some of us grayhaired members were among those who counted three generations of
their family at the convention!
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Colorful N8619D has been at conventions before, but this time
Art Weisberger’s Tri-Pacer was flown in by one of several firsttimers at the convention, Tim Timmons of Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Bill and Teresa Lovern, Las Cruces, N.M., came in N3715P.
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At top is N7152D, flown in by Bill
and Teresa Lynch, Neosho, Mo.
Above, is N9702D (with its Kokopelli
design inset at left), the Tri-Pacer of
Doug and Cinda Conger of Cortez,
Colo.
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N8718D is another Utah Short Wing, belonging to James
Hollinger, Bountiful, Utah. The PA-22-160, a Caribbean, proudly
bears the name Delta Dawn. (Hmmm! That reminds me of a song.
Does she wear a faded rose from days gone by? Sorry, I just couldn’t resist!) Larry Jenkins sent in her photo.
And here are some of the people
One of the first stops for convention-goers was the registration
table. Here, Deborah O’Kelly is registering Kim Matthews. Among
those at right is Art Weisberger (with the hat and mustache). In the
background are part of the raffle prizes with the red cups for the raffle tickets.
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At the executive board meeting, club president Peter Lubig
(standing) reads off the accomplishments of the club during the
past year) while Kurt Selbert, vice president, follows along on his
iPad, and Larry Jenkins and Sally Luse listen at right.
Listening to an aviation briefing above are Michael Coghlin,
Killarney, Ireland, (left) and Doug Conger, Cortez, Colo. Mike
Sargent, assistant manager at the Ogden tower, gave an airport
briefing at the membership luncheon on Wednesday.
No matter where you are from, the SWPC has a place for you and
your Short Wing! Join your local chapter and attend next year’s
convention! Make your club even better!
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At the membership luncheon, Gilbert and Barbara Pierce,
Germantown, Tenn., on the left, are shown visiting with Roni and
Stewart MacPherson, Cardiff By The Sea, Calif. Gilbert gave a seminar to a packed house during the convention, and Roni’s Clipper
was judged the grand champion!
Also at the luncheon are (left to right) Jim and Betty Younggren,
Hallock, Minn., Tim and Laura McDaniel, Hutchinson, Minn., and
Tom Brent, Walnut, Miss., president of the Tennessee Chapter.
Flying, Fellowship, Fun, Food, Family, and Forums --- the Six F’s of
the Short Wing Piper Club. And nowhere are those six F’s more
evident than at the club’s annual conventions (well, for Forums
you might have to substitute seminars, but they work just about
the same to exchange information) or at the regional or chapter
meetings. Join in and make your club better!
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Galen
Hanselman,
the
keynote speaker at the banquet,
had a table set up before and
after the banquet with the books
he has written about backcountry flying. Above, Sid Brain,
Harrison, Ark. (on the left), and
Mark Ohlau, Sutter Creek, Calif.,
talk with Hanselman about the
books. At left below, Hanselman
is telling the banquet crowd
about the many back country
strips set up in the 50s in Utah
during the uranium boom (many
of them not used since, he said).
Hanselman not only documented the strips but legitimized
them, writing about the cliff
dwellings, pottery shards, interesting people, etc., he found.
Among the people and places he
talked about were Marie Ogden
and her “Home of Truth”;
Church Rock; Bob Foster, Man
of Many Wives at Rockland
Ranch; Caveman Ranch, and the
not-quite ghost town of Cisco.
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Shown with their trophies above are (left to right) Jim Butler, Best Non-Piper; Kevin Newmayer, Best 22/20;
Mark Ohlau, Best PA-20; Kent O’Kelly, Best Tri-Pacer; Roni MacPherson, Grand Champion; Fred Mayes, Ladies
Choice; Kurt Selbert, Best Colt, and Art Weisberger, inductee into the club’s Honor Roll.
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Having fun at the banquet were these youngsters, who for some
reason didn’t believe the editor/photographer when she told them if
they came they had to stay for the speakers! Making a beeline for
the food and then for the swimming pool were (left to right) Cody
and Nathan Schneider, Jared Stapleton, Brianna Stickland, Elizabeth
West, and Jacey Stapleton. Cody and Nathan belong to John and
Linda Parish, Jared and Jacey are Jim and Donna Lambert’s grandkids, and Brianna and Elizabeth are Claire and Terry Karlson’s
grandkids. Other youngsters at the convention were Rose and Ryan
Mibus and Izzy, Annie and Cali Mills-Hosmer. All the kids found the
swimming pool a great attraction and the Mibus and Mills-Hosmer
kids also found their way to I-Fly in Ogden for some sky diving.
The bus trip to Promentory Point was a highlight of the convention. Shown here listening to a ranger talk about the Golden Spike
are part of the SWPC group. In the foreground are Kay Mills and the
three Mills-Hosmer youngsters (from left Cali, Annie and Izzy), with
Tom and Denise Anderson and Sam and Sandy Archer behind them.
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CD’s for sale at the Web Store:
In addition to a hard copy CD the club now offers an
additional benefit for CD purchasers: You may download digital copies of your CD file to your computer at
any time --- and any number of times up to one year
from your date of purchase. Just log-in to “My Account”
and click the “Files” tab to locate your downloadable
files!
Short Wing Piper Aircraft Colors and Designs 2008
$10
Piper Drawings, Vol. 1 - $55
Vagabond Drawings (also known as Piper
Drawings Vol. II) - $36.50
Rigging Your Short Wing - $20
Tips and Techniques, Vol. 1 and II (one CD) - $35
Tips and Techniques Vol. III - $15
Aircraft Maintenance Items
for sale at the Web Store!
The Famous “Sky Catch” (1) - $25
(Note: Order multiple latches if needed for rear door)
Brackett Air Filter Assemblies for PA-15, 16, 17, 20,
and 22 - $42.50 (price subject to change)
Brackett Air Filter Element BAF 4108 - $7.50
Classic Strut --- Holds the door in the open position $149.00
PLUS: Patches! - $3 each (Old Tri-Pacer Owners Club
cloth patch and SWPC cloth patch)
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Barb Miller photographs the last tie (where the Golden Spike
was driven) that united the two tracks into the transcontinental railroad line.
Shown on the Club
Web Store Site:
Library tool loan items
See the pictures and then order
by calling Claire Karlson!
Free Loaner tools available to paid members only.
Shipping responsibility of the borrower. Donations to
SWPC Education Foundation gladly accepted. Contact
Claire directly to order and work out shipping details.
Contact:
Claire Karlson
swpclibrary@yahoo.com or 540-822-5954
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Membership Report
More news from the mail bag
By Eleanor Mills
Well, another convention is over and
it was —- like all our conventions —a great experience. My daughter, Kay,
and grandchildren, Izzy, age 10,
Annie, 7, and Cali, 5, went with me
and we had a great vacation. We set
out a couple of days early and after a
couple of long drives through
Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico
arrived at the Grand Canyon.
Bob and I had visited the Grand
Canyon on one of our trips, but we
mostly drove to the canyon, stood on
the rim, looked down into the canyon,
visited the visitor’s center, said, “Well,
we’ve seen it,” and drove on. I do
remember that I felt blessed by the
experience, since it rained hard all the
way from Williams to the canyon,
cleared up magically while we were
there, and then rained hard all the way
back to Williams.
No rain this time. We got to the
south rim around noon, walked along
the rim trail, visited the geology museum, went to our hotel room just outside the park, and then went back that
evening to watch the sun set over the
canyon and attend a star gazing program. The sunset was fine, but actually not as spectacular as I had expected.
But the stars were wonderful. Not only
could you see more stars there than
anywhere else I’ve been, but
astronomers had large telescopes with
which we could view the moon, Mars,
Saturn, and other stars.
The next morning Kay and Izzy took
a hike down into the canyon a ways
while Annie, Cali, and I stayed at the
hotel. Then we drove out along the
Desert View road and through the
Painted Desert to Zion. Just one wonderful view after another! The next day
we went on to Ogden and really
enjoyed the convention, coming home
the northern route through Wyoming,
with a stop at Vedauwoo near Laramie,
where the kids (and Kay) enjoyed rock
climbing while I took photos! Then
through Nebraska, down to St. Joseph
and Kansas City, and then home. Nine
states in all, counting Missouri and the
corner of Iowa! (Think of it as the
driving counterpart to Barb Miller’s
usual flights to the convention!)
You will read elsewhere in this issue
a report about the death of Steve
Marsh. I was given the hard task of
announcing at the convention that
Steve had died. I talked then (and in
the story in this issue) about Steve’s
contributions to the club . . . which of
course are many.
What I didn’t say was expressed better than I could have by Lynn and
Steve Banks in their email to Steve’s
friends and fellow members of the
Mid-America Chapter. Lynn wrote:
“Though devastated with this loss, my
Steve and I know many of you have
also known and been friends with
Steve a very long time so we extend
our condolences in your sorrow. Steve
Marsh was such an avid supporter of
aviation as well as the SWPC, but
most of all our dear friend, buddy and
pal and will be missed tremendously.”
Like Ed Wach, George Fruehauf and
Frank Rush —- all of whom have left
gaping holes in the fabric of the club
—- Steve was one of the people Bob
and I knew and flew with, attended
chapter meetings and conventions
with, and looked to as staunch members of our flying fraternity. He and
Tom Ellis (who is also missed) were
fellow chapter members of ours as
well as officers of the national club
who encouraged and supported Bob
and me when we became editors of
this magazine and later took over the
membership duties.
As Lynn said, he was a dear friend
and he will be missed tremendously.
The good thing about our club is the
dear friends we make through the
years. Along with that comes the sadness that exists when those good
friends are no longer with us.
Well, back to the membership
report! As usual, there are messages to
report from members, along with their
donations and their occupations and
special skills.
First is a note from Scott Nauman,
Littleton, Colo., who was a partner in
ownership of N9720D with Dale
Andrews, who for many years wrote
the Rocky Mountain News for the
magazine. I asked Scott when he
renewed his membership if he had
news of Dale, and this is his reply:
“Soon after I bought his half of
N9720D and became sole owner, Dale
and his wife, Sandy, moved to Estes
Park, Colo. Dale had brought me in as
a partner on the plane quite a few years
earlier and then made it possible for
me to purchase both the plane and the
hangar at Centennial Airport where I
am still based and housed. Though
Dale and Sandy are about a 90-minute
drive from our home in Littleton, I do
get up to see them at least once a year
and often more frequently. I serve as a
Pastor of Worship and Arts at a large
church here in Denver and the
Andrews came down to attend one of
our Christmas concerts just a month
ago. (Scott wrote this on January 1).
“Dale and Sandy are semi-retired.
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He is working part time at a wonderful
church in Estes as an Executive Pastor.
They have a beautiful home (yearround cabin) that often has a herd of
elk grazing in their front yard! Dale is
still a very good friend and I will
always treasure my flying experiences
we shared and the wonderful world of
aviation that he introduced me to some
20 years ago.
“I am in the process of getting my
wings recovered this spring and HOPE
to be able to make my way to Ogden in
June.
“It’s great to return to the club! It has
been about 4 years but I’m in a better
financial place to get back up in the air
and re-engage with the good folks of
SWPC!”
Club vice president Kurt Selbert
wants to start a photo history project to
be placed on the website. “I have the
idea to create a historical database of
Short Wings by serial number and tail
number that shows a history of the airplane like these two pictures (on the
next page) begin to do. We should contact the current owner and see if he has
any pictures of it as it is today. If these
were in a ‘wiki’ format, people could
upload their own photos of particular
aircraft to that aircraft’s wiki and add
text as well, such as stories of when
they had it, where they took it, etc. It
would be an amazing reference.
Similar to this idea: http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p51/p51past
paint/picspp_reg_1.shtml. Pretty cool,
huh?”
The two photos were of N8544D.
Kurt found a photo of it online from
when it was brand new in Tacoma,
Wash. He did some searching and
found out that the current owner lives
near him and is a club member, James
Thames of Petaluma, Calif. “Further
searching discovered the second picture on the Columbia River SWPC
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Above is a photo of brand
new N8544D in Tacoma, Wash.
At left is the Short Wing when
Frank and Theresa (Tee) Rush
owned it. Now it’s owned by Jim
Thames and Linda Cochran.
chapter web page and it shows it in
2005 as a project owned by Frank and
Theresa Rush.”
I told Kurt that Jim Thames’ wife is
Linda Cochran, who was one of the
current scholarship students. He
replied, “What a small world! Linda is
a friend of mine on Facebook and I
have plans to go over there and see
their project!”
As you have probably read in an earlier story in this issue, there is a dedicated email address to send in your
photos and aircraft information to
begin this history project. It’s
swpcphotos@gmail.com. Kurt wants
the serial and tail numbers plus the
photos.
Dave Butler, Ipswich, Mass., is one
nice man. I messed up his membership
and he missed about a year of magazines before emailing me to find out
why. I told him it was my fault and
offered to send him the missing magazines and give him another year’s
membership. Nope, he said, that wasn’t right. So he not only sent me the
$40 membership fee but added a $15
donation to the club library and a $35
donation to the Education Foundation
AND reimbursed the club for the
postage involved in sending him the
magazines! “I really do like having the
‘hard copy’ of the magazine ‘on
hand,’” he said, “so the expense is well
worth it.”
Another great donation and letter
came from Ruth Ann Reynolds,
Farwell, Mich., who sent in $60 for the
Education Foundation. She also noted
on her renewal application that she is a
Jill of all trades. Her letter reads, “Just
wanted to let you know how much I
enjoy reading and looking at the pics
in the Short Wing publication. Clark
always read the book from cover to
cover and kept all of the issues for reference when he found it necessary or
just wanted to prove a point. After
Clark’s passing in 2010 I decided to
see what he found so interesting in the
SWPC collection and started reading
from cover to cover myself. What
excellent reading I found. I requested
the Michigan Chapter be more diligent
in sending articles to the club for printing, but apparent to no avail. I really
enjoy hearing (reading) about the other
chapters and I’m sure others do also. I
still have Clark’s beloved Tri-Pacer; he
last flew it on July 4, 2010, and passed
suddenly and very unexpectedly on
July 10, 2010. I miss him very much
and just can’t part with his plane yet. I
keep telling myself maybe now; but it
hasn’t happened yet. We truly enjoyed
every convention we were able to
attend and hope the club continues far
into the future. Keep up the good
work! Safe flying to all!”
Others sending in donations (of $25
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or more) this period included John and
Linda Parish, Roy, Utah, who sent in
$28 for the library and $25 for the education fund. That, of course, is not
their only contribution to the club,
since they were the co-directors of the
2012 convention! Donald and Joyce
Helsley, Quincy, Wash., sent in $20 for
the library and $20 for the Education
Foundation, Adolph Svec and Myrna
Akins sent in $100 for the Education
Foundation. Adolph and Myrna live in
Marengo, Ill., and Adolph was the
lucky winner of the club’s first prize
give-away of the LED landing light
donated by Aircraft Spruce.
Jerry Barnhill, Longville, La., sent
in $25 for the Education Foundation;
Anne Lanzara, Roanoke, Va., sent in
$20 for the library and $10 for the
Education Foundation. Larry Jenkins,
director of the Education Foundation,
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reports that Ken and Teresa Stark gave
a memorial donation to the Education
Foundation in memory of Nora
Williams, Ralph Widman’s mother.
Several members sent notes about
problems or questions. Darrell Grigsby
wrote to say he owns Tri-Pacer
N8740C and just renewed his membership. “I haven’t used the online
page in a cople of years,” he said. I
have lost my user name and my password. My email has long since
changed since I last checked in. How
can I have my user name and password
changed so I can start looking online
again?” I was able to go in and change
his email, found his user name, and
suggested he try the “forgot password?” link. That worked!
Richard Durham, Salado, Texas,
used the order comments section of the
website’s club store order form to say
the purchase he made was for a gift
membership to Clyde Barker, Aurora,
Colo. Clyde must have loved it,
because the next order was his for all
three volumes of Tips and Techniques!
Michael Apel, Dortmund, Germany,
wrote Larry Jenkins wanting to buy the
Piper and Vagabond drawing CD’s but
as usual, the website refused his credit
card (for some reason, international
orders by credit card just don’t work).
Fortunately, the credit card machine I
use for the membership doesn’t care
where people live and accepts cards
from international members just fine.
Michael reported that he just bought a
PA-22-150. Larry assured him I could
take care of it and urged him to join the
club. I too asked him to join and soon
he replied, “I just checked your club
and I think it’s a good thing. So I want
to join the club.” So, he’ a new member!
John Ritchie, Duluth, Ga., wrote, “I
saw your note about us in the
November-December 2011 issue —-
that was a surprise! Yes, Margie and I
are still here and doing well. My little
copilot, Jack, who you remember as a
10-year-old, has just graduated college
and my daughter has just started college. Unfortunately, my Tri-Pacer is
not flying right now, but I hope to get
that situation remedied some time. I do
remember eating lunch with you, Bob,
and Jack at the Air Force Museum in
Dayton in 1998 —- those were fun
times! Best regards, and thanks again
for your steadfast service to the club.”
John Schnaubelt, Lake Geneva,
Wisc., wrote to make a suggestion:
“The Short Wing website is very user
unfriendly. Has been for a very long
time. Changes have not made it easier.
Please spend some money and make it
easier to access maintenance items
such as AD’s and Service Bulletins.”
And John Archibald, Cross Junction,
Va., who is a pharmacist, wrote: “I
have had trouble with your web site in
the past. I cannot get on the forums. It
requires too many sign ons, passwords, user names, etc. I would like to
explore the website and ask some
questions about STC’s, problems with
the airplane, and have parts for sale
and give-away, but it’s not worth the
effort. Who could I contact for help?”
Garry Butler is our present webmaster
and will be able to help anyone who
has problems accessing the information. Just give him a call or send him
an email!
Charles Morris, Steubenville, Ohio,
added a note to his renewal saying
there are five Pacers on his field. Send
us a photo some time, Charles. Ted
Fields, Texhoma, Okla., wrote to say,
“I was at the airport in Guymon yesterday and a fellow stopped by with a
Colt. I think I have sold him on the
SWPC membership. Send him an
application and a Piper News.”
Thanks, Ted. And if any of the rest of
you meet a Short Wing owner who is
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Here’s Happy Feet III, being rebuilt by Burt Ackerman.
not a member, talk up the club and
send me their address.
Michael Quinn, Charlotte, N.C.,
wrote to say he became a member a
few years ago when he started restoring a 1952 Tri-Pacer. “Life has a lot of
bumps and turns and I had to take a
leave from the projects,” he said. “I
recently committed to another PA-22
and will be brining it home in the next
week or so (this was in early May). I
was wondering if I could renew my old
membership number or if that was
recycled and now belongs to someone
else. I will be putting my membership
renewal in once I hear back from you.”
Unfortunately, the website didn’t recognize Michael’s old number and gave
him a new one when he renewed.
However, this problem was discussed
at the convention and Peter thought
maybe Garry Butler, our webmaster,
could solve the problem for members.
Burt and Violet Ackerman,
Shakopee, Minn., sent a note and this
photo. Burt said, “My wife and I can’t
wait to go to Ogden for the convention. We’ve been working on Pacer
Happy Feet III. Just got to install and
wings and control turnbuckles, fuel
line and gauges. I was 4-5 years old
when my father worked at the Hill
field during WWII. We lived in Army
style housing and at the start of school
I could see the P-38 Lightnings fly and
the white capped mountains. We
camped up there trout fishing and my
dad got a mule deer buck. I have it. If
you can, put the photo of our 1950
Pacer in the next Short Wing Piper
News. Original colors are polar gray
with a red stripe.”
Taking the time this period to tell us
their occupation or their special skills
were Donald Dench, Twentynine
Palms, Calif., who is a retired A&P;
Jim and Sherry Blankenship, Lubbock,
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Texas, are cotton farmers (and I’m
sure are hurting for rain); Brian and
Patricia Gorman, Chicago, Ill., are
urban farmers with a website of
www.chicagoindoorgraden.com;
Dennis Baxter, Winnebago, Minn., is
also a farmer; Rian du Plooy,
Lloydminster, Alberta, is a medical
doctor; James Earle, Argonia, Kansas,
is an A&P mechanic and CFI-I
John Phillips, Mulberry, Fla., is a
piano technician; Jack Bennett,
Dekalb, Ill., is a zoologist, geneticist,
and an A&P mechanic; Thomas Susor,
Seattle, Wash., is a machinist, retired
industrial designer, and a builder —and owns PA-22/20-150 N9950D;
Byron Stone, Beaumont, Texas, is a
helicopter pilot and an A&P; Ben
Rasch, Benton City, Wash., is a retired
instrument specialist skilled in security
systems, computers, and mechanical
stuff, he said;
Don Mangold, Helotes, Texas, and
Port Allegany, Pa., is an A & E/IA and
electrical engineer; Stan McGrew,
Morgan, Utah, who was at the convention with wife Carolyn in Mr. Shorty
(shown in the color section), is a
retired professional pilot; Don Kelley,
Loon Lake, Wash., is an attorney;
Hassel Handy, Critz, Va., is a truck
driver; Duane Fischer, Lebanon, Ill., is
an A&P; Donald Stephens, Miramichi,
New Brunswick, is a welder; Rusty
Smith, Freedom, N.Y., is a truck driver; Rodman Smith, San Diego, Calif.,
is an aero engineer; Richard Freed,
Watervliet, Mich., is skilled in all types
of welding; David Walden, Mesa,
Ariz., is a pilot, and finally, Donald
Harbison, Herod, Ill., says he is “so old
I forgot what I used to do for a living.”
And that’s a good note to end on!
Keep sending in your stories and photos and keep spreading the Short Wing
gospel —- It’s your club, and you can
make it better!
Steve Schlager, Carterville, Ill., sent in this photo showing three
Tri-Pacers on June 2 at Hurst, Ill. “The occasion was our EAA
Chapter ‘Coffee and Donuts’ get-together at the home of Scott and
Janet Hartwig, who fly a not-so-short-wing Cessna 195 from ‘Hurst
International.’ Late in the morning, two Tri-Pacers, belonging to Zac
Weidner, Bunker Hill, Ill., and Don Bartlett, Carterville, buzzed the
airpark and dropped in to finish off the leftover donuts. My Tri-Pacer
is N2828Z (the blue and white one on the right), which I purchased
several years ago from Don Bartlett. What a lovely sight to see three
Short Wings together!”
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Valdimar Einarsson, Reykjavik, Iceland, sent in this photo of his
Clipper, saying, “I really enjoy receiving the SWPC News and following what is going on in the SWPC community over there west of
the big lake (the Atlantic ocean). Over here I try to fly my Clipper as
often as I can, not as much as I would like to --- work tends to ruin
my spare time! Next winter I plan on starting on rebuilding/modifying a PA-22 to PA-20 basket case I acquired a few years ago.”
Make this year the one you ...
*Join your local chapter *Attend a regional fly-in
*Volunteer to help man the booth at Oshkosh or
Sun ‘n Fun
(Note that you could win a great prize!)
*Attend the convention in Sarasota, N.Y.
*Send in a donation to the club library or the
SWPC Education Foundation *Send in a story to
SWPN
*Be more active in your local chapter and the club
*Make a difference!
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Bylaws review
The bylaws of the
Short Wing Piper Club
Editor’s Note: At the convention, members of the board voted to
set up a committee to review the bylaws of both the Short Wing
Piper Club and the Short Wing Piper Education Foundation, with a
view to updating them. At the urging of Connie Stevens, the committee will also look at separating the board of the Education
Foundation from the executive board of the club, making it more of
a pure foundation and enabling it to more successfully seek donations, possibly from corporations having to do with aviation. The
board has asked members to read through the bylaws and suggest
any changes they would like to see made. Send suggestions to secretary Art Weisberger.
Short Wing Piper Club Bylaws
As Amended July 2005
Article I: Objective
The objectives of the Short Wing
Piper Club Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “SWPC”)
shall be:
1. To promote, educate, and
encourage interest in the operation and maintenance of Piper
Vagabonds, Clippers, Pacers, TriPacers, and Colts, and to collect
from and disseminate to the
Members information, experiences
and data in relation to such aircraft and the safe operation and
flying of the same.
2. To cultivate and promote friendship and sociability among the
Members.
Article II: Officers and Staff
1. Officers and Terms - The
Officers of the SWPC shall be a
President, Vice-President,
Secretary, and Treasurer. These
Officers shall be elected for a twoyear term by a vote of the General
Membership either in person or by
mail-in ballot at the annual
Membership Business Meeting.
Election of Officers will be staggered with the terms of the
President and Secretary expiring
each odd year and that of the
Vice-President and Treasurer
expiring each even year. All newly
elected Officers will take office
immediately after the election.
No elected Officers of the SWPC
may hold more than one (1) elected Office or Staff position at the
same time. An SWPC Officer
may run for a different SWPC
Office but upon such election
he/she must resign from his/her
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presently held Office. Upon a
vacancy, the SWPC Executive
Committee will appoint a Member
in Good Standing (defined to
Article V.1), to complete the Term
of Office. No SWPC Member may
hold more than one (1) elected
Office at any one time.
The Officers of the SWPC will not
be compensated for the time
spent in the performance of the
duties of their Office. Executive
Committee shall not be required to
pay dues while in office in recognition of their service to the Club.
2. Executive Committee - The
Executive Committee of the
SWPC shall be composed of the
President, Vice-President,
Secretary, and Treasurer and, two
(2) to four (4) At-Large Members,
and the Executive Director of the
SWP Education Foundation as an
ex-officio member. Only Members
in Good Standing (defined in
Article V.1) are eligible to serve as
an At-Large Member of the
Executive Committee. At-Large
Members are selected and
appointed by the Officers with ratification of the membership at each
annual meeting. At-Large
Members who serve on the
Executive Committee may be reappointed and approved by the
membership annually.. The management of the SWPC, its property and affairs shall be vested in its
Executive Committee.
3. Duties of Officers - The duties
of the Officers of the SWPC shall
be:
a. President - The President shall
be the Chief Executive Officer of
the SWPC. He/she shall preside
at all Meetings of the Executive
Committee and Members. In
his/her absence, the Meetings,
etc., shall be presided over by the
Vice President, Secretary, or
Treasurer in that order. He/she
shall be in general charge of the
business of the Corporation and
shall execute Contracts on behalf
of the SWPC, with Executive
Committee approval, and shall
see that all Orders and
Resolutions of the Executive
Committee are carried into effect.
He/she shall be an ex-officio
Member of all standing
Committees and shall have the
general powers and duties of
supervision and management usually vested in the Office of
President of a Corporation.
b. Vice-President - The VicePresident shall, in the absence or
disability of the President, perform
the duties and exercise the powers of the President and shall perform other duties as the Executive
Committee shall prescribe.
c. Secretary - The Secretary shall
make, or cause to be made, a
record of the Proceedings of all
Meetings of the Executive
Committee and General Members.
He/she shall have charge of the
records of the SWPC, including
the Seal and Charter. He/she shall
have in his/her charge a current
membership list for use in determining those Members entitled to
vote. He/she shall give notice of
all Meetings at the request of the
Executive Committee. He/she
shall assist other Club Officers
with Club correspondence, at the
request of said SWPC Club
Officers.
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d. Treasurer - The Treasurer shall
have the custody of the SWPC
funds and securities; keep, or
cause to be kept a full and accurate account of the receipts and
disbursements of SWPC; and
deposit all moneys and other valuable effects in the name of, and to
the credit of the SWPC in such
depositories as may be designated by the Executive Committee.
The Treasurer shall disburse the
funds of the SWPC as may be
ordered by the Executive
Committee and take proper
vouchers for such disbursements
and shall render to the Executive
Committee on a quarterly basis, or
as may be required by him/her, an
accounting of all the transactions
as Treasurer and of the financial
conditions of the SWPC. He/she
will be responsible for filing appropriate tax returns in a timely manner.
4. Staff and their Duties
Staff shall be appointed by the
Executive Committee as deemed
appropriate. Appointments shall
be reviewed periodically by the
Executive Committee. Staff may
not serve in more than one position at the same time. Staff members may or may not be compensated for their service and will not
be required to pay dues. Staff
shall consist of at least the following positions.
a. Membership Chairperson He/she shall be in charge of membership solicitation, enrollment,
and membership records, and
other membership duties as
assigned by the Executive
Committee.
b. Magazine Editor - He/she shall
be responsible for editing and
publication of the SWPC News.
c. Librarian – He/she shall be in
charge of all of the SWPC loan
items, as well as helping SWPC
members with requests for information about STCs, modifications,
Airworthiness Directives, etc., as
available in the Library. The
Librarian shall be responsible for
keeping and maintaining an inventory of the materials for loan.
d. Short Wing Piper Store – The
Manager of the SWP Store shall
be considered a Staff person with
duties and responsibilities as
defined by the SWP Education
Foundation.
e. Chapter Coordinator - The
Chapter Coordinator shall be in
charge of establishing SWPC
chapters in accordance with
Article VIII of these Bylaws.
He/she shall distribute to these
chapters the requirements for a
SWPC chapter and provide liaison
between chapter officers and the
National SWPC Executive
Committee.
f. Web Master – He/she shall be
responsible for the Club’s official
electronic communications environment as defined by the
Executive Committee.
g. Technical Committee
Coordinator – He/she shall be
responsible for supervising a
standing committee to provide to
members and agencies technical
expertise about Short Wing aircraft. The Technical Committee
coordinator shall submit names of
potential members to the
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Executive Committee for approval.
the SWPC.
i. Historian – He/she shall be in
charge of keeping a record of the
Club’s history, past-present-future,
in picture and print. Such history
shall chronicle major persons,
projects, activities and events of
the Club and chapters.
Article V: Membership and
Meetings
Article III: Dues and
Disbursements
1. Disbursement of the funds of
the SWPC shall be made by
check, which shall be signed by
the Treasurer, or in his/her
absence, the President.
2. No member may incur any
financial liability to the SWPC
without first obtaining the approval
of the President and a majority of
the Executive Committee.
3. Operating expenses by all
Officers or Staff shall include consumable items, which are included
in their budgets. Expenditures for
tangible items shall require prior
Executive Committee approval.
1. Members in Good Standing All persons interested in supporting the objectives and purposes of
the SWPC shall be eligible for
Membership. The Membership of
the SWPC shall consist of those
persons who have been accepted
into Membership by the Executive
Committee or its designee upon
making application and paying
dues for the current year.
Members whose dues are current
and whose Membership has not
otherwise been revoked are
Members in Good Standing. Any
Member who fails to pay delinquent dues within thirty (30) days
after notice shall forfeit his/her
Membership, but may re-apply.
Violation of any Bylaws of SWPC
will be cause for Termination of
Membership subject to action by
the Executive Committee.
Article IV: Report of Officers
2. Honorary Members - The
Executive Committee may designate and appoint persons as
Honorary Members of the SWPC
for an appointed period of time.
Honorary members shall have all
the privileges of membership,
except for voting privileges.
The President and Treasurer shall
submit to the Membership a written report of the past year published in the next available issue
of the SWPC Short Wing Piper
News following the annual membership Business Meeting. The
Treasurer’s Report shall be in sufficient detail to present a full and
accurate accounting of the financial operations and conditions of
3. Annual Membership Meeting An annual Membership Business
Meeting shall be held each year.
The date and place shall be
established by the President
and/or the Executive Committee.
The time and place of the annual
Membership Meeting shall be
announced in the SWPC News at
least one issue prior to the
Meeting.
4. The Executive Committee shall
establish annual dues for membership.
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4. Special Meetings - Special
Meetings of the Members may be
called by the Executive
Committee. The notice of such
Meetings shall be given not less
than twenty (20) days prior to the
meeting and shall specify the
objective of the meeting.
5. Quorum - At all Meetings of the
Membership, 10 percent of the
Members or twenty (20) Members,
whichever is the lesser, present
and entitled to vote shall constitute
a Quorum. In the event that a
Quorum is not present, then a ballot by mail shall be conducted to
resolve Matters Entitled to Vote.
All other matters may be resolved
by a majority of Members present.
6. Matters Decided by Vote - The
following matters shall be decided
by a majority of actual votes on
the matter and will require a quorum present for the vote:
a. Election of Officers.
b. Amend the Articles or Bylaws of
the SWPC.
c. Dissolve or reorganize the
SWPC.
d. Any matter submitted by the
Executive Committee for general
Membership ratification.
e. To recommend, by resolution to
the Executive Committee, that it
take action on specific matters
within its management function.
7. Members Entitled to Vote Any Member in Good Standing
according to Article V.1shall be
entitled to vote either in person at
meetings of the membership or by
official ballot.
8. Election Procedures - Any
Member in Good Standing may
nominate candidates for any elected office. Nominations shall be
submitted to the Secretary. The
Secretary shall list names of candidates in the Short Wing Piper
News along with a mail-in ballot
prior to the election. Posting in
the Short Wing Piper News shall
be deemed sufficient notice to all
Members.
Voting for Officers and proposed
changes in the SWPC Bylaws
shall be by ballot only. Each
Member entitled to vote may submit one ballot. Each ballot shall
contain the names of all previously
proposed nominees for each
Office. The complete text of any
proposed changes to the Bylaws
shall be published in the SWPC
News at least one issue prior to
the meeting. Ballots must identify
the Member and be received by
the Secretary no later than one
week prior to the Meeting.
Additional ballots will be available
at the Meeting for any Member
who does not bring one and who
can show proof of voting eligibility.
All ballots and nomination forms
submitted must contain the voting
Member’s membership number.
9. Modification to the Bylaws All proposed Bylaw Amendments
will be submitted in writing to the
Secretary no less than three (3)
months prior to the annual
Business Meeting. All proposed
Bylaw modifications shall be printed in at least one (1) issue of the
Short Wing Piper News and at
least 30 days prior to the date of
the annual Business Meeting. No
changes to the proposed Bylaw
modifications will be allowed after
they are printed in the Short Wing
Piper News unless a new copy of
the changes is provided to members. Balloting shall be as specified in 8, Election Procedures,
above.
Article VI: Indemnification of
Officers
Each Officer of the SWPC,
whether or not then in Office, shall
be indemnified by the SWPC
against any and all claims and liabilities, whether the same are settled (with approval of a majority of
the other Members of the
Executive Committee) or proceed
to judgment, which shall be
asserted against such person by
reason of his having been subjected in connection with his defense
against the claim or liability and in
connection with his defense
against the same, provided however, no such Officer shall be
indemnified with respect to any
claim or liability where such
Officer shall have been grossly
negligent or derelict in the performance of his duties.
Article VII: Indemnification of
Officers and Executive
Committee Members Against
Liabilities and Expenses in
Action
Each Executive Committee
Member or Officer, or former
Executive Committee Member or
Officer, of this Corporation, and
his or her legal representatives,
shall be indemnified by this
Corporation against liabilities,
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expenses, counsel fees and costs
reasonably incurred by him or her
or his or her estate in connection
with or arising out of any action,
suit, proceeding or claim in which
he or she is made a party by reason of his or her being, or having
been, such Executive Committee
Member or Officer; provided that
the Corporation shall not indemnify such Executive Committee
Member or Officer with respect to
any matters as to which he or she
shall be finally adjudged in any
such action, suit or proceeding to
have been liable for duties as
such Executive Committee
Member or Officer. The indemnification herein provided for, however, shall apply also in respect of
any amount paid in compromise of
any action, suit, proceeding or
claim asserted against such
Executive Committee Member or
Officer (including expenses, counsel fees and costs reasonably
incurred in connection therewith),
provided that the Executive
Committee of this Corporation
shall have first approved such proposed compromise settlement and
determined that the Executive
Committee Member or Officer
involved was not guilty of negligence or misconduct; but, in taking such action, any Executive
Committee Member involved shall
not be qualified to vote thereon,
and if for this reason a quorum of
the Executive Committee cannot
be obtained to vote on such matter, it shall be determined by a
committee of three (3) persons
appointed by the Executive
Committee at a duly called Special
Meeting or at a Regular Meeting.
In determining whether or not an
Executive Committee Member or
Officer was guilty of negligence or
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misconduct in relation to any such
matters, the Executive Committee
or committee appointed by the
Executive Committee, as the case
may be, may rely conclusively
upon an opinion of independent
legal counsel selected by such
Executive Committee or
Committee. Any compromise settlement authorized herein shall not
be effective until submitted to and
approved by a court of competent
jurisdiction. The right to indemnification herein provided shall not be
exclusive of any other rights to
which such Executive Committee
Member or Officer may be lawfully
entitled.
Executive Committee for approval.
3. Each Chapter is to submit a
written report annually. The content of these reports will be determined by the Chapter Coordinator
as endorsed by the Executive
Committee. Chapter annual
reports shall be submitted to the
Chapter Coordinator thirty (30)
days prior to the annual Business
Meeting.
Article VIII: Chapters
4. All Chapters must operate in
conformance with the National
Bylaws. The Executive Committee
may revoke the charter of any
chapter it deems in violation of
Article I, The Objectives of the
Short Wing Piper Club.
1. Any group of five (5) or more
Members in Good Standing
(Article v.1) may apply to form a
Chapter of the Short Wing Piper
Club provided:
5. The National SWPC assumes
no liability, financial or otherwise,
for the activities of chapters. All
chapter assets and liabilities
remain their own.
a. All Officers are Members in
Good Standing of the Short Wing
Piper Club.
b. The Chapter consists of a minimum of five (5) Members in Good
Standing.
2. Application is made to the
Chapter Coordinator who reviews
it and forwards it with his/her recommendation to the President and
Article IX: Termination
In the event of termination, the
remaining assets of the
Corporation shall be donated to
another organization qualifying
under Section 501 of the Internal
Revenue Code for Tax-Exempt
Organizations.
Need help? Your local chapter might be your best source for who
flies what kind of Short Wing, where there might be a hangar for
rent, who does the best annuals, whether a particular airport still
has a restaurant on the field, who might give you a ride to the
next fly-in or convention, etc. Call your chapter president --- if he
doesn’t know, he probably knows someone who does.
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Bylaw review
The bylaws of the SWPC
Education Foundation
Short Wing Piper Club
Education Foundation Bylaws
as Amended July 2006
The members of the Short Wing
Piper Club, Inc. (SWPC), in recognizing the need to assist young
people, particularly those between
the ages of 10 years and 25 years
old, who have demonstrated
through their efforts that they wish
to enhance their knowledge in the
field of aviation either as a chosen
vocation or as a recreational avocation, have formed the nonprofit,
philanthropic Short Wing Piper
Education Foundation, Inc.
(Foundation).
In addition to assisting youth,
the purpose of this organization is
to encourage the general membership of the SWPC and all other
persons who share the goal of
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helping youth in enhancing their
aviation education involved as a
group to insure these goals are
successfully pursued. The duration of the Foundation shall be
perpetual, commencing with the
date of incorporation of the
Foundation and continuing as long
as the need for fulfilling the objective of the Foundation exists.
The following Bylaws are
designed to facilitate the organization of the Foundation and the
orderly management of its affairs.
1. The Foundation is organized
and shall operate exclusively for
educational purposes within the
meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of
the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 as amended (or the corresponding provision of any future
United States Internal Revenue
law). Consistent with such limitations, the purpose of the
Foundation shall be the furtherance of aviation education and
safety.
2. The primary means by which
the Foundation shall achieve this
purpose will be to establish a trust
fund and use the proceeds for:
a. Scholarships for young people selected by the Board of
Directors. Those selected for
scholarship funds will be selected
without regard to sex, race, color,
creed or if they or any of their relatives are affiliated with the
SWPC. They shall be selected
upon merit and shall be enrolled
into an accredited aviation oriented program and will have demonstrated through satisfactory grades
a willingness to pursue the aviation program to a successful completion and graduation.
b. To target those community
programs which are aviation oriented but not necessarily accredited programs which meet the
statutes in accordance with
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code. These programs
will be selected by the Board of
Directors to receive monetary aid
from the Foundation’s funds.
c. To seek and select existing
voluntary programs such as, but
not exclusively, those sponsored
by the C.A.P. Cadet, Boy
Scout/Explorer Scout, Girls Club,
E.A.A. Youth Educational Program
or the Y.M.C.A. Youth Aviation
Education Program where members of the Short Wing Piper Club
can get involved, in accordance
with their talents and training, in
hands-on teaching and training of
youth in aviation oriented projects,
This could include building projects, classroom lectures and practical training on site.
3. The Foundation will not be
directly involved in formal flight
training. However, the Foundation
may support flight training by the
means of flight training scholarships through established F.A.A.
approved flight training programs.
4. The Foundation is not formed
for pecuniary profit or financial
gain, and, not withstanding any
other provisions of these Bylaws,
the foregoing purposes are limited
to those described in Sections
501(c)(3) and 170(c)(2) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (or the corresponding
provisions of any future United
States Internal Revenue law).
5. The Foundation shall have
and exercise all powers granted to
a nonprofit corporation under
Colorado Statues which may be
necessary, proper or convenient to
carry out the above stated objectives. Subject to any available limitations the Foundation shall have
the power to receive, accept, use,
hold, manage and dispose of all
types of real and personal property given, transferred, divested or
bequeathed to it, in trust or otherwise, for the purposes described
in the above objectives.
6. The Foundation shall neither
have nor issue any stock. The
foundation shall not lobby for or
against or otherwise attempt to
influence legislation, nor shall it
participate or intervene (by publication or distribution of any statements or otherwise) in any political
campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office.
7. No part of the net earnings of
the Foundation shall ever inure to
the benefit of or be distributable to
any member of the Board of
Directors, Officers, Committee
Members or any individual affiliated with the Foundation. However,
the Foundation shall be authorized
and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services
rendered along with out-of-pocket
expenses incurred and to make
payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth
in Article Eight of the Articles of
Incorporation and Bylaws 1 and 2
above.
8. Notwithstanding any other
provisions of these Bylaws, the
Foundation shall not carry on any
activity not permitted to be carried
on by:
a. A corporation exempt from
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Federal Income Tax under Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (or the
corresponding provision of any
future United States Internal
Revenue Law).
b. A corporation , contributions
to which are deductible under
Section 170(c)(2) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (or the corresponding
provision of any future United
States Internal Revenue Law).
9. The Foundation shall distribute its income for each taxable
year at such time and in such
manner so as not to subject it to
any tax under Section 4942 or the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (or the corresponding
provision of any future United
States Internal Revenue Law) and
the Foundation shall not:
a. Engage in any act of selfdealing as defined in Section
4941(d) of the Internal Revenue
Code.
b. Retain any excess business
holdings as defined in Section
4943(c) of the Internal Revenue
Code.
c. Make any investments in such
manner as to subject the
Foundation to any tax under
Section 4944 of the United States
Internal Revenue Code.
d. Make any taxable expenditures as defined in Section
4945(d) of the United States
Internal Revenue Code.
10. The Board of Directors of
the Foundation shall be comprised
of from seven to nine individuals
of whom four will be the elected
members of the Executive
Committee of the SWPC. The fifth
member of the Board of Directors
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will be the Executive Director of
the Foundation who will be selected annually by a majority vote of
the Executive Committee of the
SWPC. The final two to four
members of the Board of Directors
of the Foundation will be the AtLarge members of the SWPC
Executive Committee who will be
selected annually by a majority
vote of the elected Executive
Committee members of the
SWPC. There shall be no limit to
the number of consecutive terms
that any member of the Board of
Directors of the Foundation may
serve.
11. All decisions concerning the
business of the Foundation shall
be by majority vote of a quorum of
the Board of Directors of the
Foundation at a scheduled meeting of the Board.
12. No Director shall be personally liable to the Foundation for
monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty as a Director except
as provided in CRS 7-108-401,
402, 403.
13. A quorum of the Board of
Directors for the purposes of conducting the business of the
Foundation shall be three fourth(s)
of the then serving Board of
Directors.
14. The Officers of the
Executive Committee of the
SWPC shall be the Officers of the
Foundation with the addition of the
Executive Director of the
Foundation. A description of the
Officers of the Foundation is as
follows:
a. The Executive Director shall
oversee the operation of the
Foundation by coordinating the
business of the Board of Directors
and the Advisory Committee and
shall report to the Board of
Directors. The Executive Director
shall not have exclusive decision
making powers, but shall participate in decision making as one
member of the Board of Directors
of the Foundation.
b. The President shall coordinate the decisions of the Board of
Directors and shall act as the official spokesman for the
Foundation. The President shall
be the duly elected President of
the SWPC.
c. The Vice President shall
assist the President of the
Foundation in his responsibilities.
In the absence of the President,
the Vice President shall assume
the duties of the President. The
Vice President shall be the duly
elected Vice President of the
SWPC.
d. The Treasurer shall keep the
financial records of the Foundation
and shall report quarterly to the
Board of Directors. The Treasurer
shall not co-mingle the funds of
the Foundation with the funds of
the SWPC. The Treasurer of the
Foundation shall be the duly elected Treasurer of the SWPC.
e. The Secretary shall be the
duly elected Secretary of the
SWPC and shall record, or have
recorded, all proceedings and
keep a record of the minutes of all
Board of Directors Meetings of the
Foundation, obtain the concurrence of all Directors on the minutes of each Board Meeting
attended by them; E-mail concurrence will satisfy this requirement;
and shall receive all correspondence (internal and external) of
the Foundation and the SWPC on
matters concerning the
Foundation. The Secretary shall
report annually to the Board of
Directors of the Foundation.)
15. The Executive Director,
President and Treasurer shall
report annually all of their activities
and proceedings on behalf of the
Foundation to the Secretary of the
Foundation. The Secretary will, in
turn, report, or have reported, for
publication in the Short Wing Piper
News a complete report of all of
these activities and proceedings.
In addition to the published
reports, the Secretary will report
the proceedings in summary form
of all special meetings called on
behalf of the Foundation. These
reports will also be made available
to all of the individual members of
the Board of Directors of the
Foundation.
16. Publication in the Short
Wing Piper News is considered to
be proper notification to all parties
interested and concerned with the
affairs and proceedings of the
Foundation.
17. All funding for the
Foundation will be on a strictly voluntary basis. All funds and proceeds collected on behalf of the
Foundation will be recorded with
regard to the amount or the monetary value of the proceeds along
with the name of the donor. The
funding records will be kept and
reported by the Treasurer for the
Foundation.
18. All funds and proceeds collected will be administered in strict
accordance with the Articles of
Incorporation for the Foundation
and these Bylaws. These funds
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and proceeds will be strictly distributed in accordance with
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 19543, as
amended (or corresponding provisions of any future United States
Internal Revenue Law).
19. An annual business meeting
to accept reports of Officers
required under these Bylaws shall
be held in consonance with the
annual Membership Business
meeting of the SWPC. Other
meetings of the Board of Directors
may be called from time to time by
any member of the Board of
Directors or by a vote of the
Advisory Committee. During the
annual meeting, or a special meeting called for special purposes,
the following may be determined:
a. For the selection of applicants
for scholarships under the guidelines set by the Foundation.
b. To select and organize groups
for the participation of sponsored
programs as set forth by the
Foundation. All selected programs
shall meet the requirements as
specified by the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (or the
corresponding provision of any
future United States Internal
Revenue Law).
c. To amend these Bylaws.
d. To dissolve and/or reorganize
the Foundation.
20. These Bylaws may be
amended at any time by a majority
vote of the Board of Directors.
21. Each member of the
Foundation Board of Directors,
whether or not in Office, shall be
indemnified by the Foundation
against any and all liabilities
incurred while serving and in con-
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nection with the business of the
Foundation whether the same are
settled (with approval of a majority
of the other members of the Board
of Directors) or proceed to judgment. However, this indemnification shall not apply to any clam or
liability where a member of the
Board of Directors shall have been
proven grossly negligent or
derelict in the performance of his
duties.
for the existence of the
Foundation diminishes due to a
lack of participation in the stated
programs or a lack of funding by
donors, a meeting of the Board of
Directors shall be called. At that
meeting, the dissolution of the
Foundation shall be discussed. If
dissolution of the Foundation is
voted, then the Board of Directors
shall proceed with dissolution in
accordance with Article Four of the
Articles of Incorporation.
22. In the event that the need
A note on the 2012 decals
By Lonnie McLaughlin
Brentwood, N.Y.
lonniemc@optonline.net
A couple of suggestions in regard to
future decals you can pass on to “the
powers that be” —. You might also put
this note in the SWPN to see if other
members concur.
1) They should be made to stick on
the inside of the car/plane/house window so that they are not subject to the
elements (slipstream/dirt/rain). The
only good place for these “outside”
2012 decals is on a flight bag and it
would get covered quickly unless each
previous year was peeled off and
replaced every year. (Who’s going to
do that!)
2) Rather than having the current
year of membership, have the FIRST
year of membership (i.e. MEMBER
SINCE 1970). Yes, I know it would be
more expensive to produce the decals
for all the different years in limited
quantity but you only have to give the
initial years out once and since a lot of
the old members have passed on (one
way or another), there won’t be that
many “specials.” After that initial
printing, only enough to cover the
number of expected new members
would have to be printed each year
rather than the whole membership.
This will save enough over the years to
make up for the initial expense. Those
left over from each new year’s member’s decals could be held for
“returnees” or sold as replacements.
A decal that has the year you join
(and stays looking nice because it is
protected from the elements) is much
more likely to be put on (and left on)
your car or aircraft and so becomes a
better advertising for the club. It also
shows pride and commitment as the
years go by.
Lonnie
(Editor’s Note: I passed Lonnie’s
note on to the executive board and
Claire Karlson, the club librarian,
passed on this comment from her husband, Terry, who is the president of the
Arizona Chapter: “Terry suggests putting it inside on a plexiglass plate and
attaching that to the window or windshield. Thus it is removeable in case
the window/windshield ever needs
replacing.” Even a very thin piece of
plexiglass would work, I think.)
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PROFICIENT
PILOT
Managing risk in Short Wing
operations, revisited
By Lynn Jensen
E-mail: lynnajensen@comcast.net
As I write this, I am in the Bahamas;
Nassau, specifically. The place is
beautiful, which should be no surprise.
I am here for aviation purposes, and
unfortunately it is not primarily for little airplane flying in the area. It might
happen, but I’m not sure it will and it
is not my primary mission.
My primary mission here is to conduct classes on Introduction to Safety
Management System (SMS) principles
to the staff of a major airline, for two
weeks, and then to help begin the
implementation of a formal SMS into
the airline’s operation during the third
week of the mission.
Since I am also interested in applying the concept of safety risk management to general aviation flying in general and Short Wing flying in particular, I offer the following thoughts,
some of which are for reemphasis…
Managing Risk in Flying
In our general aviation flying world,
for the past few years, there has been
increasing emphasis on a more formal,
structured approach to the notion of
managing risk. Some find that intimidating, perhaps, or even question the
value of introducing such a structure
into flying experience that might cover
40 or 50 years without incident. Part of
the answer, I suggest, is that without
some structure we might be closer
sometimes than we know or care to
admit to some unfortunate occurrence,
and adding structure can only add
value to the level of safety awareness
that naturally, intuitively occurs for all
of us.
So what kind of structures are we
referring to that might be useful?
There are several, actually, and I will
describe a couple, after describing a bit
more about the fundamental concepts
that are underlying all of them. The
first fundamental common to any risk
management framework is the action
of identifying a potential hazard. A
hazard is something that will do harm
if encountered. It might be a weather
phenomenon, a mechanical problem,
lack of sleep, illness, and so forth. The
easiest hazards to identify are the ones
that have been identified before. More
challenging is the hazard that is
uncommon or new and requires some
thought to visualize. Once a hazard is
identified, the next step is to decide
what the level of risk is associated with
that hazard.
Risk is most often expressed in
terms of likelihood, or frequency, and
severity, i.e., how likely is the hazard
to affect the flight (e.g., from highly
improbable to frequent) and what is
the worst effect it can have (e.g., from
negligible to catastrophic)? The level
of risk is often shown in a risk matrix
which provides a general picture of the
level of risk along a continuous scale,
for example from low to high or
acceptable to unacceptable.
Once the hazard has been identified
and the level of risk has been determined, the decision must be made as to
whether the risk level as determined is
acceptable, whether it is not acceptable
but can be made acceptable using
some mitigating steps, or whether it is
not possible to mitigate the risk level
and it will remain unacceptable. There
might be several potential hazards that
need to be addressed for a planned
flight. Unacceptable risk should lead
to a decision to cancel and wait to fly
another time.
Some
Risk
Management
Frameworks
Those with a military aviator background are certainly familiar with the
Operational Risk Management (ORM)
framework, and it is also familiar to
those of us participating in the Civil
Air Patrol activities, both flight and
ground. The ORM process is described
in terms of a cycle, as follows: Identify
hazards; Assess risk; Analyze risk
control measures; Make risk control
decisions; Implement risk controls;
Supervise and review. The role of the
last step is to determine if the risk control measures are working and if they
are not, the measures must be adjusted
as needed, and the cycle followed
again, as many times as necessary until
the activity concludes. There is a lot
more information available on a variety of websites that can be found by
entering
Operational
Risk
Management or ORM in your favorite
search engine, and an excellent specific site is the ORM University produced
by the U.S. Air Force.
Another useful framework for risk
management, currently featured by the
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FAA safety program, is the 3-P framework. The three P’s are for Perceive
(the hazard identification step),
Process (the risk assessment step), and
Perform (the step to mitigate or eliminate risk). The hazard identification
step is further framed by specifically
identifying hazards involving the Pilot,
Aircraft, enVironment (weather, airport, terrain, etc.), and External pressures (mandatory schedule, family
pressures, etc.), with PAVE as the
memory jogger. There are additional
sub-steps for each stage of the framework, as well. Another very important
part of the FAA safety program
approach is the concept of the personal minimums checklist. It is a thoughtful, step-by-step opportunity to create
a very personal tool for risk management before facing the hazards at the
time of the flight. It is a deal you make
with yourself in which you promise
yourself that certain conditions must
be present before you will fly, conditions that you have already decided
that if they are not present, your flight
less safe than you want it to be.
Space does not permit a full training
course on risk management here.
Please take a look at the website
www.faasafety.gov for more information, including the online course, The
Art of Aeronautical Decision-Making.
There is also good information available in a number of commercially
available books and computer-based
courses, and in the AOPA Air Safety
Foundation website.
Risk management for Short Wing
operations does not need to be a sterile
academic exercise. It does not need to
be approached as “another thing to
do.” With a good, fundamental understanding of one of the common frameworks for risk management, and a
good understanding and acceptance of
personal limitations, it can be as natu-
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ral as looking both ways before crossing the street, with the added assurance
that the complexities of flight are ade-
quately considered.
Safe flights…
Southwest Regional 2012
Revisit Denver for
the SW Regional!
By Kent O’Kelly
Castle Rock, Colo.
headwinds@msn.com
The Southwest Regional will convene at the Ramada Inn at Centennial
Airport south of Denver next
September. Many of you will remember the airport and hotel from our 1999
SWPC Convention. We’ll park our airplanes within walking distance of the
hotel. Sadly, the open field where we
tied 108 of our airplanes down in 1999
is now overgrown with buildings. I
met with one of the airport managers,
who showed me where we’ll tie down
our airplanes. Tie down is free. Those
of us who drive will park at the hotel.
We may be able to park RVs at the
hotel as we did in 1999...but maybe
not. I’ll let you know. It’s on my “todo” list.
Those of us who want to arrive early
can plan on Wednesday, September 12.
Departure day will be Sunday,
September 16. But wait...there’s more.
As an option, those electing to depart
Monday can join some of us who want
to hear some of the best Dixieland
music in the country. The Queen City
Jazz Band (whom Deborah and I have
been seeing and listening to
since...dare I say it? 1957) plays on the
third Sunday of each month.
Hotel rates are $59 per night per
room if you give them the name “Jet
Center.” They give a discount for the
Jet Center across the street on the field.
A hot continental breakfast is included. Call the Ramada, phone number
303-790-7770.
I suggested nine events that we
could do and asked those who attended the Southwest Regional in Payson,
Ariz., to rank them. The two most popular choices were 1) a trip to a
Victorian town in the mountains for an
1800s narrow gauge train ride and gold
mine tour and 2) a tour of Univair. We
can do more than these two things if
we want to. And, of course, any of us
can ad lib it and go on our own.
Here are the other events:
Visiting a bronze sculpture foundry
(takes about 5-6 hours with travel
time) was a close third. Artists send
their clay sculptures to the foundry and
they leave the foundry ready for sale or
display. The foundry did the WWII
Navy memorial installed at Normandy,
France, among many others. We’ve
toured the foundry several times...it’s a
keeper.
Other things to do in order of ranking were the Lowry Aviation Museum:
airplanes from a Kitfox to a B-2
bomber (30 minutes away), Platte
Valley Airpark and World War I and
more museum (30 minutes by air, an
hour and a quarter driving), a railroad
museum (30 minutes away), the
Centennial Tower (on site), and Rocky
Mountain National Park. (This one is
an all day event, but the elk should be
herded up and bugling.)
So, here’s what we’ll do unless I
hear a loud outcry. Of course, you can
do whatever you want.
On Friday, we’ll have a tour through
our premier Short Wing parts supplier,
Univair. This is always a popular
event. I’ve toured Univair numerous
times and never tire of it. The Univair
folks are like a family and excel in providing so many of the things we need
for our Short Wings.
On Saturday, we’ll drive to
Georgetown in the mountains.
Georgetown was a gold and silver
mining town in the late 1800s. The
town is an interesting collection of
Victorian houses and old mining operations. I’m told that there were 10,000
people living there in 1890. Amazing
how quickly people rushed to what
they viewed as opportunity. As part of
the mining development in the valley,
a narrow gauge railroad was built to
haul supplies in and ore out. The hill
west above Georgetown was steep, so
the track was spiraled upward in a
large loop to lessen the grade. This was
called the Georgetown Loop, and the
narrow gauge train we’ll ride travels
the loop. As an aside, my mother’s dad
(my grandfather, for those who are
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genealogically challenged) had a gold
mine in Georgetown and he worked on
the Loop in the late 1880s-early 1890s.
During the train ride, the train will stop
at an old gold mine, which we’ll tour.
We may have time to do some gold
panning, as well...or spend more time
gold panning on another day, either as
a group or ad lib. The Phoenix Gold
Mine in Idaho Springs (on the way to
Georgetown) offers gold panning for
$8. Add another $10 and get a mine
tour. Another panning opportunity,
Vic’s Gold Panning, is available near
the gambling town of Blackhawk, not
far from Idaho Springs. I think the
original “Mother Lode” vein went
from Central City/Blackhawk to Idaho
Springs. Panning is $10, and a 3 foot
sluice box can be rented for another
$15. Bet Cliff and I rent a sluice box,
whether it finds us more gold, or not.
Didn’t intend to dwell so long on
gold, but...it’s available and is a different thing to do for most of us.
Oh, restaurants? Lots of choices
nearby. I’ll have a list of possibilities
and we’ll decide where most of us
want to go by a majority vote each
night.
Remember...we have only one
rule...there are no rules. Do whatever
you want with whomever you want at
any of our Southwest Regionals.
So...we have a plan for 2012. Put the
third weekend of September (and a
few days earlier) on your calendar and
join us for another fun Southwest
Regional.
Conventions, Regionals, Chapter Fly-ins
Your best bet for the 5 F’s
Flying Fellowship Fun Family . Food
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Technical Corner
An addition to the tie-down
article in the March-April issue
By Lonnie McLaughlin
Brentwood, N.Y.
lonniemc@optonline.net
Nice article on aircraft tie downs.
The only item not included was the
other end of the rope - the end that
attaches it to the ground anchor. The
equivalent of the aircraft knot that gets
tighter the harder it is pulled is the one
I used.
Pass the end of the rope through the
ring (twice if you like as in the aircraft
end). Tie a half knot in the end of the
rope leaving at least a 2 inch tail. Tie
the end (with the half-knot) around the
rope into another half-knot. The end
can’t pull out because of the knot in
the end of the rope and will just pull
both knots tighter and tighter against
the ring. I used this at my home tiedown and had to cut the ropes off
when I eventually replaced them
because it was impossible to loosen the
knots after years of use.
Lonnie
Technical Corner
How much does it cost
to restore a Tri-Pacer?
By Kent O’Kelly
Castle Rock, Colo.
headwinds@msn.com
A simple answer, that really tells
you nothing, is: “it depends”. But, I’m
not going to get into a philosophical “it
depends” discussion. I’ll just tell you
what I did and most of what I spent
doing it. I say “most” of what I spent
since I likely misplaced (lost is a more
accurate term) some of the receipts.
First, I did 99 percent of the work
myself, so the largest cost (labor) was
in the form of sweat equity...mine.
Second, I replaced no avionics,
though I did add Whelen wingtip
strobes.
Third, I bought few tools specifically for the project. One that comes to
mind that I did buy is the DeVilbiss
spray gun. The gun is first class and
cost $240. I built the rotation/support
fixtures and paint booths.
Fourth, the interior (seat upholstering, wall covering, and carpet) was
done four or five years earlier and isn’t
included here. I don’t remember how
much the interior redo cost. I do
remember that I cleaned and epoxy
painted the seat frames and cut the seat
foam. I had a professional upholster
the seats and side walls. I put it all
together.
Fifth, I was a near rookie. I had
never restored an airplane before.
Tinkering and minor recovering jobs?
Yes. Airplane design? Yes. Recovering
and restoration? No.
I reused most of the wiring, cables,
and pulleys. I did replace the wiring
and cabling in the wings and a few
other places.
As I said in an earlier article in the
news, I took the airplane down to the
bare frame, sand blasted and epoxy
painted the frame, recovered it,
installed a new windshield and headliner, built a lot of new metal parts
(aluminum fairings, boot cowl, etc.),
replaced most hardware (bolts etc.),
and cut and installed new plexiglass
windows all around.
The cost? Based on the receipts I
kept (As I said, I likely lost some), I
spent just under $8000.The biggest
single item was the recovering supplies and paint. But, that was a little
more than $3000 of the total. When
you think about restoring your bird,
count on a buying a LOT of things
besides the recovering supplies. Even
if you only plan to recover the airplane, you’ll find beau coup “sins”, big
and small, lurking under the old fabric.
And, you won’t be able to resist going
beyond the task of “just” recovering
the airplane. I couldn’t.
So, am I happy with the way it
turned out? Definitely. Are there mistakes or blemishes that a judge could
find? Yes. Did I do the absolute best
job I could? Sure did. Am I glad that I
spent nearly three years doing it? Yes
and no. I could have done a lot of other
things in the time it took to do the
restoration. But, it was a mostly interesting, challenging and enjoyable
experience. One final question: would
I do it again? Probably not.
Here’s another thought connected to
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making our Short Wings look better...
Paint Masking Tapes
There’re a lot of tapes out there to
mask the things you don’t want to
paint. Howsomeever, there are only a
few that you should consider using on
your airplane. The best of the lot that I
know about is a 1/2 inch blue vinyl
tape used to stripe automobiles and the
like. I used it during my Tri-Pacer
restoration. You can buy this tape at
auto parts stores such as NAPA, from
Stewart Systems, and likely a lot of
other places.
The blue tape worked well for me.
But, as luck would have it, as I taped
the trim on the airplane and wheel fairings, I ran out of the good blue stuff
about 2-3 feet short of finishing. I
decided to take a chance. I had some of
that green “frog tape” that promises
that it chemically prevents the paint
from seeping under the edge. I held my
breath and painted the part and pulled
the tapes. I got a sharp, no-leak edge
from both the blue and the green tapes.
But wait...before you run down to
your big-box store and buy the green
tape...I used it several more times. It
usually worked, but sometimes it didn’t. The blue vinyl tape didn’t have a
perfect track record for me, either. But,
the only times it failed were 1) when I
tried to wrap too tight a radius around
a corner. The tape edge puckered, and
paint flowed under the puckered
edges. If the tape puckers, you’ll need
to take the tape off and re-tape the
edge. It won’t stay down if you merely
push it back down. At least it didn’t for
me. And, 2) the blue vinyl tape leaked
under the edge if I didn’t leave about a
quarter inch of the tape between the
masking paper and the edge I was trying to protect. Even the blue tape
needs a little surface area to grip to
hold itself down tightly.
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Don’t even think about using the old
blue paper tape from 3M or the tan
masking tape, either. They might
work. But, then again, they likely
won’t. Use these on the walls of your
house. They do work there with the
mostly heavy latex paints we use on
the walls.
3M has a new blue tape that they
claim chemically seals the edge
against paint leaks. It’s inexpensive
and available at your local big box
home center. I haven’t tried it, but it
may work just fine. I’d sure talk to
somebody who’s used it or try it on a
sample surface before I used it on an
airplane.
The blue vinyl tape is the most
expensive, but cheaper than a “doover”. I’ve done lots of “do-overs”.
My thought? Use the blue vinyl tape
unless you have experience with
something else.
Technical Corner
More on installing light weight
high torque starters on a
Tri-Pacer --- an alternative
By Jim Oeffinger
Naperville, IL
jimo@wideopenwest.com
N8111D
As I started reading Alan Arrow’s
article on page 78 in the May-June
2012 issue of the Short Wing Piper
News I had to check the byline to see
if I had written this and had already
forgotten about it. Yep, had the same
problem: the starter on my recently
acquired PA-22-160 failed.
A starter upgrade was on my list of
“like to haves”, but it wasn’t anywhere
close to the top of my upgrade priorities. Actually 8 Triple 1 Delta had
been starting quite well, but I wish it
would stop a little better, could use
some additional radios, etc. But, as
usual, I’m not all that much in control
of my life.
So, of course, the logical solution
was to upgrade to a modern starter
now. The “been there done that” part
of the story continues. Contacted
Aircraft Spruce, selected the Sky-Tec
122-NL since this would be a “plug
and play” and, with an hour of labor,
away I would go with a starter that I
could probably taxi with. It was in
stock and, with the usual great Aircraft
Spruce service, a couple of days later I
had my brand new, shiny starter, complete with all of the issues detailed in
Alan’s article!
Now N8111D is basically an 11 year
old 1958 airplane and I didn’t look forward to doing unnecessary surgery,
nor was I all that interested in paying
what this would probably end up costing me, both in time and money. So,
with our newly acquired knowledge of
issues to look for, my A&P/IA and I
started doing a little more research,
including paying attention to detailed
pictures of our options.
And here is where Alan’s and my
stories diverge. We selected a Lamar
PM1203, which is also sold by
Aircraft Spruce. And it fit, just like it
was made for our application! Yes, it
cost slightly more than the Sky-Tec,
but only slightly, less than one hour’s
labor. And Aircraft Spruce gave full
credit for the exchange of the Sky-Tec
that didn’t fit. It has now been in service for 7 months and 40 tach hours and
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is working great. With all of the frequent engine starts while doing Young
Eagles rides, it is an appreciated
upgrade even though it started out as a
“routine” maintenance issue.
And, yes, about an hour after the
UPS truck arrived with the Lamar
starter I was back in the air!
Technical Corner
A letter to the FAA
about CE-07-06
By Miguel Azevedo
Ann Arbor, Mich.
(Editor’s note: Miguel sent us this
letter which he tried to send to the
FAA. “I was asked so many questions
by —- I guess —- their firewall, that I
gave up,” he said. “Therefore, I’m
sending it to you. If deemed worthy of
publishing in our magazine, you are
hereby authorized. The subject covered might benefit some in our flock.”
Miguel also says, “I’m one of those
SWPC members (member 12138) that
stay in the shadows, lurking. Like most
members of this group, I’m a proud
owner of a PA-22/20-150 (N8714D)
and read our magazine cover to cover
as soon as it arrives in my mail box. So
does my son, Klaus. You do an
extraordinary work for the benefit of
many, and I congratulate and thank
you for it.” And I thank Miguel for his
kind words —- but we all know that
it’s members like him who send in stories that make the magazine worthy of
reading cover to cover!)
LETTER TO FAA ABOUT CE-0706
Dear Peter,
Took a while to find you!
Just recently I ordered the autofuel
STC from EAA.
It was with consternation that, reading the papers, I found the STC void if
there is any Ethanol or Methanol
mixed to the base gasoline. Well, in MI
it is next to impossible to find any autofuel without Ethanol in it. At the very
least, I’ve found the composition fairly constant at 10 percent (E10),
throughout the various grades.
It so happens that I was one of 4
people which formed the core technical team whose efforts in promoting
the use of Ethanol led to the establishment of the hugely successful National
Alcohol Fuel Program in Brazil, in
1976. Thus, I consider myself to be
fairly knowledgeable on the subject.
What is not generally known is that,
parallel to the automotive efforts, the
Air Force also got involved and in
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1977 I authored an extensive report on
the use of hydrous E100 (95 percent by
vol. Ethanol, 5 percent water
azeotrope) for air cooled aircraft
engines, specifically the LYCOMING
O-540. The outcome of that is that
most - if not all - IPANEMAs (a
Pawnee-like, O-540 powered crop
spraying aircraft) in Brazil use E100 as
a fuel, with full endorsement and full
manufacturer
warranty
from
Williansport.
Reading the document above (CE07-06) I found stated as reasons for not
allowing E10 as an aviation fuel allegations that are not entirely correct
and whose outcome is to deny the use
of a more environment friendly and
lower cost fuel, compared to 100LL.
Specifically:
Vapor lock: It is true that the addition of Ethanol up to 10 percent does
increase the Reid Vapor pressure of the
base fuel. However, have you ever
found any credible evidence to substantiate this to be a real problem?
I’ve seen it happen in cars of long
ago, whose fuel pumps were located peculiarly - in a hot spot (close to the
junction of the exhaust manifold) and
that would stall by vapor lock even
with neat gasoline!
In the aviation field, one of the worst
fuel line routings you can find exists
in the Short Wing series by Piper. No
matter, guess what? Never heard of
any problems! And fuel is gravity fed!
I’m associated with the Short Wing
Piper club, a very active, technically
savvy group of people that would
report and advise immediately of any
problems. None has been reported as
far as I know.
“Ethanol is Corrosive...”: So is
gasoline / Diesel and Natural Gas!
That’s why the infamous Copper strip
test is made! What E100 is not is a
dielectric substance, an insulator like
gasoline. E100 is a highly polar sub-
stance and capable of conducting stray
currents. Thus, different metals jointly
exposed to E100 behave like in a
battery and some (notably Zn / Al /
Mg ) will act as “sacrificial anodes”
to others and be corroded. This is true
with E100, but fortunately not up to
E10. In this respect, I’ve never seen
anything different with E10 that I hadn’t found with neat gasoline. At this
volume proportion (E10), the insulating nature of gasoline prevails.
“Ethanol and rubber materials” :
Again, E100 does swell and when
dried makes some rubber and plastic
compounds brittle, but not E10.
Phase separation”:
In a ternary
mixture (gasoline / Ethanol / water) it
takes about 0.5 percent of additional
water to trigger the separation of the
binary compound formed by water
and Ethanol.
In an 18 gal. tank that equates to 342
cm3 of water ingress, a huge amount!
One would have to leave the tank cap
off and the airplane parked under a
deluge overnight to collect so much
water!
Or fly at 100 mph for 10 minutes in
a torrential rain, one so thick that you
cannot see your spinner from the cockpit! Clearly, both scenarios are highly
improbable.
Even if true, in a fully warmed up
engine what would happen is a
decreased power output, some spitting
and coughing but rarely a stoppage as
the alcohol-water mix will carry on
combusting, unlike gasoline.
As a last reminder, please search the
internet and check for countries using
E10, or whereabouts. You will be surprised. This is to say that the background work has been already made
for you. You need not to repeat it.
Summarizing:
E10 use does not bring about any
of the problems cited in CE-07-06 .
May this rather winded email help
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you delete many misconceptions surrounding the use of E10 in aviation
engines.
Cheers,
Miguel Azevedo
N8714D
Technical Corner
Stewart Systems report
card . . . from the perspective of a ‘first-timer’
By Kent O’Kelly
Castle Rock, Colo.
headwinds@msn.com
I suspect, but don’t know, that companies that sell re-covering supplies
have at least a simple dread of “firsttimers” like me. We’re likely rookies
at nearly everything that’s involved in
aircraft restoration, including painting.
I was.
But, we all start somewhere, sometime, and somebody has to put up with
us. In spite of the best coaching, seminars, courses, we make beaucoup mistakes and ask all sorts of dumb questions, most of which the supplier has
previously heard: some, beaucoup
times.
I decided to do a nearly complete
restoration
on
my
Tri-Pacer,
Headwinds, and decided to use the
Stewart Systems products. Why did I
initially decide to use the Stewart
System? Experience? Nah, except for
some minor work with several other
company’s products, I was a rookie.
So, what were the decision makers?
Two things: 1) I knew the Stewarts
and counted them as friends, and 2) I
never wanted to breathe methyl ethyl
ketone: aka MEK again.
So how’d it turn out? All roses and
cream? A few warts? A disaster I
never wanted to repeat? Read on.
First, a few caveats besides the
“first-timer” thing: 1) this “report
card” is based on VERY small sample
statistics: one...me. 2) the products
were purchased 18 months before
some of them were used...paint for
example. I had won a discount at one
of our conventions, so I ordered everything at the same time to get the discount. Not the brightest idea. Shelf life
limits can be real. 3) I tried to (mostly)
do things as instructed in the Stewarts’
instructional video, but I didn’t always
succeed. For example, my basement
shop, in which I did most of the work,
ranged from 62 degrees in the winter
to 72 degrees in summer...not the temperature in winter recommended by
the Stewarts for painting. I did a lot of
painting at temperatures below 70
degrees. 4) I’m an aeronautical engineer, but that doesn’t make me a good
mechanic, technician, or craftsman.
OK...enough of this. I’m an engineer
and I like things summarized, so here’s
a (maybe) simple summary that will
serve as the Stewarts’ report card,
from one man’s point of view.
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Bonus points: The Stewarts likely never thought (or wanted that) their products would be used in some ways, and they weren’t designed to do so. Howsome-ever, I experimented and did some things outside their specifications.
Most worked. One didn’t. I didn’t give the one that didn’t work a grade, since
the product was never intended to be used on the material. And, these are supposed to be bonus points, not penalty points...
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1 Time frame was 2010/2011. May have been one bad lot of paint. They
replaced (at no charge) paint that had hardened. New can of paint had no shelf
life problems.
2 Customers crushed painted fabric samples into snowballs for 5-6 years: didn’t crack.
3 Dan Stewart’s airplane selected for CO/WY award in 2009, with no knowledge of whose airplane it was. It had been re-covered 5 -6 years previously.
4 Maybe the best thing of all. No bad fumes, e.g. MEK. Wear simple respirator mask when you paint.
5 I painted a metallic silver trim color. Later painted a fairing that partly overlaps the silver color. Same color. No match. Tinted silver paint with white. Still
no match. They’ll have a spectrometer soon to match colors.
6 Stewart two part epoxy paint covers at least some plastics/rubber well and
remains flexible. Don’t use Stewarts’ primer on plastics unless you can test it
first. It may not stick, even if you scratch the plastic with sandpaper.
So...what do I think?
Restoration projects aren’t easy. If
you want something easy, stick to sipping your favorite beverage on the
porch on a cool evening and let the
professionals do it. It likely isn’t easy
for them, either.
I likely won’t take on another
restoration project but, if I did, I’d
choose Stewart Systems for the covering process. As my final line on the
Stewart Systems “report card”, I found
that the Stewart Systems products did
what they were supposed to do, and
more.
Need technical help?
If you need technical help, call someone on page i or ii
or your local chapter president They can either answer
your questions or help you find someone who can.
Check out the club’s website (www.shortwing.org) and
our forums for the technical information and people
available there.
Download from the website the technical CD’s the
club’s volunteers have made available.
Use the forums and our Facebook page!
And send in your own technical stories and answers to
questions so your work will help your fellow members.
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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.
Alberta Chapter
By Marc Stewart
Chapter President
In preparation for the Alberta
Chapters July 20-22 fly-in in Innisfail,
Alberta (report in the next issue), I
took my 8 year old son for a flight to
Drumheller one Saturday morning.
We started out from Innisfail without a cloud in the sky, but as we neared
Drumheller the clouds became broken.
It wasn’t a problem, as we wanted to
keep tucked underneath them so we
would be able to see the beautiful view
of the Badlands. ( For anyone who
isn’t sure what the Alberta Badlands
are like, I would recommend checking
them out on Youtube and Google to
see what we viewed on our flight this
July!)
We cruised up and down the valley
gazing at the amazing contrast
between pure flat farmland and ragged
cut slopes. I have vacationed in
Drumheller several times, as it is an
incredible tourist destination, but this
was my first time flying and I had been
dreaming of flying the hills since my
first trip by car.
As it was nearing lunch time, we
decided to head to the airport. It is a
3500x75 asphalt strip that is laid out
up top the valley on the level farmland.
Just as we began tieing the plane
down, along came a young couple
from Edmonton in a 172. After some
introductions, we decided to share a
taxi into town. The young couple
(Tyler and Kathy) were happy to have
us join them for lunch. We enjoyed the
company and the food, as Drumheller
has some of the best Mom and Pop
places to eat!
All too soon it was time to head back
to the airport. My son wasn’t too
impressed that we weren’t touring the
Royal Tyrell Museum, but I reminded
him that we have already been there
twice in previous years, and that he has
a class trip to the Museum at the end of
the school year. Sometimes it is hard
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Marc’s white with red Colt above and a view of the badlands below.
not to get too much of a good thing!
All in all it was an enjoyable trip,
and I hope everyone made it to our fun
filled event this July!
For more information, contact Marc
Stewart at (403) 396 3675, or email
sturdywillow@hotmail.com
See a couple more photos of the
badlands on the next page!
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Two aerial views. (You know,
these badlands look very much
like South Dakota badlands that
we saw at last summer’s convention (or the Grand Canyon or
Zion that were close enough to
stop by at this year’s convention!)
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Left to right are Dave MacDonald, Roger Hawkins, Marshall Teaff,
Charlotte Netherby, Lewis Brown, and Steve Culler. Newsletter editor
Richard Netherby was behind the camera.
By Steve Culler
Chapter President
The day started with weather that
was not ideal for Short Wings but
promising. There was morning fog but
it was forecast to dissipate early and I
wanted to be on the ground at 5NC2
before the 8:30 seminar started. The
sun was shining at INT and clouds
were high at 8500 feet. There was a
light mist and visibility was reported at
4 miles but that should be no problem
with Sugar Valley only 19 miles to the
southwest. It was a 15 minute ride so
how bad could it be?
The take-off and first 10 minutes of
the flight could not have been better
but then as I crossed the river the
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clouds thickened below me. Four
miles from the airport and 500 feet
below me was a solid blanket of white
puffy clouds; it was time to make the
180 and head back to INT. I contacted
the tower and reported 9 miles out,
“inbound for landing with Uniform”.
With a “cleared to land; report a 4 mile
final” I was heading back to wait for
the mist to burn away. I was over
downtown with buildings in sight
about to report the “4 mile” when I
realized that I could not see the airport.
I continued toward the airport maintaining the 800 feet agl but no airport
in sight.
I contacted the tower and reported
“no field in sight” as I flew directly
over the runway. I advised the tower
of my intentions to continue flying
northeast since I could see a clearing
ahead. Sure enough about 3 miles
north of INT it was all clear and I had
my choice of a couple nearby airports.
I chose to land at Meadow Brook Field
and wait. I expected to be the only
plane on the field but was surprised to
find a couple of guys with RC models
preparing to enjoy some morning flying. We exchanged greetings and then
they explained their planes to me, one
was electric and the other a jet. I
stayed long enough for a “small” airshow that was impressive.
With an improved forecast from
ATIS, I again took flight and headed
toward 5NC2, this time without the
cloud cover. The radio was full of
reports of inbound traffic and no visibility problems. I landed about 10:15
without any additional delays and
made the second seminar at 10:30.
After the seminar I met up with
other CSWPC members Marshall
Teaff, Dave MacDonald, Roger
Hawkins and Rich and Charlotte
Netherby for a delicious catered lunch
provided by the airport. There was
even ice cream for dessert if you had
room for it.
During our meal there was entertainment provided by a local college acappella group and a live video from the
producers of a documentary film titled
the “The Millionaires Unit”. These
were Yale students that became
“America’s Pioneer Pilots of the Great
War”. The original 12 formed the first
air militia and coastal patrol before
America’s entry into WWI. This was
very interesting and something that
you can learn more about on the website, www.millionairesunit.org.
After lunch I met new member
Lewis Brown and also spoke with
member Jack Neubacher; we all were
to be heading Jack’s way for our June
meeting. There were demonstrations
of local RC flying, my second for the
day, and then some parachutists making their jumps. Those of us flying
made our departures around 2:30 and
headed to our home bases. Once back
at INT, there was still enough daylight
to give N2311P a well deserved cleaning. Back into the hangar shining like
a new dime and ready for our next
flight together.
Fly safe!
Steve
Chapter notes:
I want to welcome new members
Dave
MacDonald
from
the
Huntersville area and Lewis Brown
from Davidson County. Dave is a
friend of Marshall’s and has attended
several past CSWPC meeting as a
guest. He said that he already feels like
a member so he thought he would just
make it official. Lewis is another new
member that flies his PA-17 out of his
private grass field near the Yadkin
River. Hope to see both of you soon at
future Short Wing meetings. Everyone
be sure to welcome these new guys the
next time you see them.
I recently attended a WINGS avia-
tion seminar hosted by the Sugar
Valley airport near Mocksville, NC.
The topic was “Traits of Superior
Pilots and Top 10 Aviation Insurance
Myths”. This was presented by
AVEMCO Insurance and former CEO
Mr. Jim Lauerman. Jim, I don’t think
he would mind me referring to him this
way, is a 4000 hour pilot and a regular
guy that loves general aviation like
most of us do. He held a 90 minute
conversation with 200 of us and
reminded us of the things we do that
can get us in trouble. Most all of the
accidents that he referenced had to do
with poor decision making by the PIC:
running out of fuel, failure to check
weather conditions, continuing into
poor weather, bad or no maintenance
choices, etc. You all know the things I
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am speaking of and some of us have
even gotten away with bad decisions.
Jim asked the audience if we knew of
pilots that had died; almost everyone
raised a hand. Then he asked if we had
flown with that pilot and ¾ of the
hands were raised.
Did we notice or fail to notice something about that pilot? Did he earn a
nickname like “Gotta go Joe” and end
up on the evening news? Or was he
always complaining about the price of
fuel and maintenance and his airplane
reflected that?
The consequences are high and we
read about them every week. So enjoy
this wonderful thing we do, but do it
well and make the wise decisions.
Steve
Oregon and
Washington
By Brian McGlynn
Chapter President
Not suprisingly, the weather did not
cooperate for our chapter meeting on
May 26th at Independence State airport. Low clouds and some rain abated briefly allowing Phil Pirrotta and
Curt Jutzi to fly in from Hillsboro in
Phil’s Tri Pacer. The good news was
that Curt may soon be the owner of a
Tri Pacer of his own. He will join the
three other PA-22’s hangared together
at Hillsboro airport that was reported
in the article by Phil in the MarchApril edition.
The best news was the amazing
lunch served by our hosts Sam (chapter VP) and Sandy Archer at their
hangar. The menu included salads,
pulled pork, bratwurst, baked beans,
sea foods, roast and gator. Top this off
with brownies and chocolate cake.
Needless to say, no one left hungry.
In fact, the attending members could
hardly wait for the meeting to conclude when they smelled the aroma of
all this fragrent feast!
Although lunch was the highlight of
the day, we did find time for a chapter
meeting. The main topic was choosing the date and place for our next
meetings. The convention in Ogden,
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In the group photo above are (front row, seated, left to right)
Sandy Archer, Kaaren McGlynn, Sally Luse, Sam Archer, Lucille
Winter, Joe Winter, Gail Boyle, (back row, left to right) Bill Boyle, Dan
Cathey, Rich Waldren, Curt Jutzi, Brian McGlynn, Phil Pirrotta, and
Dave Luse.
of course, was to be our June meeting
and we encouraged all to attend and to
volunteer to help. This was stressed
as one of the best ways to get connected with other members. We chose to
meet on September 8th at Hood River
Airport for the WAAM fly in. A real highlight of this meeting was
to see Dave and Sally Luse in attendance and seeing them in good health. Stories of the success of past Short
Wing Piper scholarships were shared
and Dave made a motion to contribute
$250 from the chapter treasury as a
contribution to the scholarship fund.
The motion was passed and funds have
been sent by Rich Waldren, our treasurer. We have since received a letter
from Larry Jenkins thanking us for our
support of the Education Foundation. Dave also requested that we support
Tim Cuff, a flight student from
Washougal, Washington. Tim will be
graduating from both Washougal High
School and Clark College and is planning for a career in civilian aviation or
as a military flight officer. (Tim was
chosen at the convention as one of the
club’s scholarship students.)
Sally Luse motioned that the chapter
donate two fifty dollar door prizes for
the convention. The motion was seconded by Sam Archer and enthusiasticly passed. With the conclusion of
the business portion of the meeting,
the members gratefully took full
advantage of food, fun and friendship.
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Sandy Archer checks on the food. Will there be enough? Surely,
there will!
Michigan
By Jerry Bednarchik
Chapter reporter
Many thanks to Fred and Phyllis
Betzoldt for hosting another fine meeting at the Brighton Airport. This
makes their third meeting.
We had one Piper Colt fly in piloted
by Walter Trancygier, with passenger
Brandon Schultz from Saline, Mich.
Walter has decided to be active in the
chapter and give his busy schedule a
rest. Garry Butler drove in with Bill
and Chris Green from Attica. Garry
will check out a few restaurants in
Frankenmuth for a possible location
for our Christmas party this year, so
stay tuned for details!
Bill Green just about has his plane
ready to meet the sky again. Bob
Harrington is still working on his
Clipper also, and he drove in alone as
his sidekick Dave Schmelzer hosted a
pancake breakfast at Midland EAA
fly-in. Dave is very particular who
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uses his kitchen. Janet and Elmer
Miller have been keeping their runway grass cut looking for chapter
members to fly in. Suzanne
Bednarchik had her flight exam
scheduled for Sunday, May 27.
Meeting Dates:
August 4, Lakes of the North (4Y4),
lunch at Settings Restaurant
September, no meeting
October 6, Lapeer (D95), pot luck,
business meeting
November 3, St. Clair (PHN), terminal building, pot luck
December 1, Christmas party, to be
determined.
Due to the high winds, we didn’t get
any flyers to a new meeting location in
Marlette, but we had a nice crowd at
their fairly new terminal building.
Our hosts, Bill and Chris Green,
made the arrangements so that we
could enjoy some great dishes and
good conversation. Also attending
were Clyde and Marion Grant, Elmer
and Janet Miller, Dave Schmelzer,
Bob Harrington, Dick and Margie
Brady, and Garry and Laura Butler.
Clyde offered an update on Dr. Barb
Miller, who is temporarily in Maine
but will be moving to Montana soon.
As always, we miss her and wish her
nothing but the best. Elmer and Janet
Miller haven’t been flying but have
been assisting their son in rebuilding
his garage. Everyone’s looking forward to having “Flying Alaska” back
on TV.
Dick and Margie are still waiting on
his eye to heal. It’s been a long road,
but he’s getting there. Needless to say,
he’s been grounded. Garry’s home airport, Lapeer, hosted an immensely
successful fly-in breakfast recently.
They were lucky to have it on a weekend when the weather was great.
Suzanne Bednarchik wasn’t as lucky
as her check ride was on the Sunday
with thunderstorms in the area. Didn’t
pass on all points the first time, but
should complete her efforts before the
end of the month (June).
Dave and Bob are working on a
non-flying project. These guys are
really versatile. If they can’t fly due to
the weather, they will find something
to occupy their time.
We have another new location for
our August meeting. Here’s hoping for
some good flying weather. See you
there!
Jerry and Suzanne
Note from Dave: Our current project is a 1991 Chevy S-10 pickup. The
chassis has been modified to accept a
narrowed 9-inch Ford rear axle with
4:30 gears and 31 inch by 18 tires.
Front steering has been changed to
rack and pinion and been lowered 3
inches. The engine is a Chevy 355
small block with 12-1 compression
and a solid roller cam. Estimated hp is
600 at 8000 rpm. We (L.B. and I) are
currently finishing assembly of the
engine which will be taken to a dyno
shop for initial running and break in.
We think the truck will turn in the low
10s at 145 mph in the ¼ mile at the
drag strip. Fuel will be 110 octane at
7.50 per gallon. L.B. has been practicing burn outs in his Astro van.
Chapters (and conventions)... your best
choice for more of the 5 F’s
Food, Fun, Fellowship, Flying and Family!
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Kansas and
Missouri
By Bill Maxwell
Chapter Secretary
Nevada, Mo.
Weather wasn’t great, but we sure
like Noah’s Ark in Waldron, Mo., and
thank Dennis Gish for providing our
meal.
Chapter president Steve Marsh con-
ducted a meeting. Election was held,
with new president Alan Arrow, vice
president Fred Mayes, treasurer Steve
Marsh, and secretary Bill Maxwell
elected.
Two meeting changes were made:
Grand Glaze was selected for July and
Miami County for September.
Shown at the meeting are (clockwise from left front) Pat
Peterson and Gene Kirby; Bill Maxwell; Dennis Gish/Host/Noah's
Ark Airport; Steve and Lynn Banks. John Coleman was the photographer and Steve Marsh is out of the photo at the head of the table.
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Congrats to Pat Peterson, who won the
50/50 drawing.
Those attending: Dennis Gish,
Waldron, Mo.; Bill Maxwell, Nevada,
Mo.; Steve Marsh, Independence,
Mo.; Steve and Lynn Banks, Blue
Springs, Mo.; John Coleman, Platte
City, Mo.; Gene Kirby, Topeka, Kan.,
and Pat Peterson, Riley, Kan.
2012 meetings, including location
changes:
August
11:
Drake
Field,
Fayetteville, Ark.
September 8: Miami County, Kan.
October 13: Lee’s Summit, Mo.
November 10: Eureka, Kan.
December 8: Historical Society
building, Grain Valley, Mo.,
Christmas party
Rain date for all meetings except
December will be the following
Saturday.
By Alan Arrow
Chapter President
As the new president of the MidAmerica Short Wing Piper Club chapter, I made several motions to the
members of the club that were voted
on and passed by a majority of members in attendance at the June meeting
at East Kansas City – Grain Valley
Airport.
Funds: First, the issue of co-signers
to the chapter’s bank account. Rather
than have the president and vice president as co-signers, members Steve
and Lynn Banks will be the co-signers
due to proximity to our treasurer,
Steve Marsh, and because they bank at
the same bank were the chapter’s
funds are held.
Deputy Treasurer: Steve Banks will
be deputy treasurer as an assistant to
Treasurer Steve Marsh so in the event
Steve Marsh cannot attend a meeting,
Steve Banks will and can collect
members’ dues, give the treasurer’s
report, and hold the 50/50 drawing.
Dues and Membership List: An
updated membership list is needed
with copies given to the president,
Alan Arrow; vice president, Fred
Mayes; treasurer, Steve Marsh; deputy
treasurer, Steve Banks; secretary, Bill
Maxwell, and newsletter editor Lynn
Banks. This list is to be compiled by
the treasurer and deputy treasurer as
the members pay their dues. Dues are
due now and need to be in by the July
meeting. We will try to have membership applications at the July meeting
for members to update their contact
information (include an email address
if you have one) and keep a supply of
membership applications on hand at
each meeting for new members to
join.
Meeting Format: Whereas the meeting format of flying to a destination
for a meal has served us well over the
years, I believe a change could benefit
the chapter. A more structured meeting to include a guest speaker from
time to time and possibly a seminar
drawing from members’ expertise or
experts outside the chapter to present a
seminar. As the meetings for 2012
have already been planned I will work
on having guest speakers beginning in
the 2013 meeting schedule and will
consider seminars when location and
weather will work for this forum. Also
it was agreed that having meetings in
conjunction with other aviation events
would boost attendance by current
members and draw interest to our club
and chapter from non-members who
attend these aviation events.
2013 Meeting Schedule: I have suggested a program that I will call
“Building Bridges,” focused on meeting with our neighboring SWPC chapters as part of our 2013 meetings. The
idea is to reach out to our neighboring
states’ chapters and link up with those
members to see what they are doing,
tell them what is happening in our
chapter and increase not only the number of people at each meeting but also
interest. Since this may require farther
travel than normal, I have proposed a
second part to this program called
“Meet Me in the Middle.” I will be
contacting the Arkansas, East
Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and
Tennessee chapters to see if there is
shared interest in these joint meetings,
asking them if their fly-out schedule
takes them into or close to a location
near us and suggest Meeting in the
Middle. As this will take some time to
contact these chapters and weigh interest, I will begin after the convention
and present these suggestions to the
chapter at our annual Christmas party
when we decide on the next year’s flyout schedule. If this program is a success, I will reach out to the currently
inactive chapters Illinois Plus, Iowa,
and Kansas, and see if they will consider reactivating their chapter if they
could see a benefit of a combined
meeting and would like to Meet Us in
the Middle.
As for members wanting to host a
monthly meeting at your home airport,
you will need to have your suggestion
in to me prior to the Christmas party,
the sooner the better. Please include
what month you would like to host the
meeting and if your airport hosts an air
show, fly-in, or pancake breakfast,
please try to host the meeting in conjunction with that event.
Example: I have asked chapter
member David Taylor when the next
Zenair Open House will be at the
Mexico, Missouri, airport. David has
advised there will be one this fall. The
Zenair Aircraft Factory hosts a barbecue lunch in conjunction with their
open house and David said they cook
up pork steaks. I have heard the attendance is good for this event and we can
gain exposure for the SWPC by being
there, showing off our Short Wings
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and meeting others who might be
interested in our club and chapter.
Example 2: Gene Kirby suggested
we partner up with the annual Bi-Plane
Fly-In in Junction City, Kan., which
was last month. This is hosted by former club member Jim Clark and as
Gene suggested, Clark would probably
by happy to set aside a corner for us to
put up a booth to attract interest in the
Short Wing Piper Club and might even
invigorate interest back into the
Kansas Planes Chapter that is presently inactive.
Roundtable: Every meeting will
conclude with a roundtable discussion
to garner suggestions from each member in attendance, hear how their airplane projects are progressing and
what they want and can contribute to
the chapter as a whole. These ideas
will be conveyed to members not in
attendance via this newsletter which
will be forthcoming each month. It
was decided that this newsletter will be
sent to each member in good standing
(dues paid) every month since the
Short Wing Piper News is bi-monthly
and some news such as monthly meeting changes is timely.
Meeting Schedule Change: It was
decided to change the Gaston’s Resort
meeting from October to July so the
chapter could move the October meeting location to Lee’s Summit airport to
hold the meeting in conjunction with
the EAA Chapter 91 annual fly-in. I
will be contacting EAA 91 president
Larry Young to advise him of our plans
to attend their fly-in as a group and ask
if we can reserve a parking section so
our Short Wings can appear as a
bunch.
Member Badges: New members can
obtain membership badges from Name
Tags by Gene Harlan Technologies at
http://www.hampubs.com or call him
at 815-398-2683. These name tags can
be ordered with either pin or magnet
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backs and can have a photo of your airplane beside the chapter logo and up to
3 lines of text: i.e. name, city and state,
and year, make and model of airplane
with N-number.
Finally, Steve Marsh has sold 21Z
and his rebuild project of his other TriPacer is now residing in his hangar. We
concluded our meeting with a viewing
of this rebuild and it is gorgeous.
Sadly, Steve was not in attendance to
give us a narrative of the rebuild, but
maybe he could be our guest speaker at
Gaston’s in July and tell us about the
rebuild.
Your president, Alan Arrow
(Editor’s note: Elsewhere in this
issue is the report of Steve Marsh’s
death, a blow to the chapter, the club,
and all of his friends.)
(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
We finally got to Saratoga, N.Y.!
Our fly-in to take a tour of the Holiday
Inn, home base for our 2013 SWPC
convention, turned into a drive-in. It
was clear that the weather wasn’t
going to cooperate for flying. I
planned to drive up to Saratoga after
school on Friday. Gloria decided to
join me for a little “getaway” and it
couldn’t have turned out better! This
hotel is just what we need. Rico
Cannone said it about a year ago when
we were contemplating the best location for this convention —- Saratoga
has it all!
We decided to stay at the Holiday
Inn to see first hand what this facility
has to offer us. We, and you, won’t be
disappointed! The room was fine; it’s a
Holiday Inn. We decided to have dinner at one of the better restaurants in
town —- Maestro’s —- which is a very
short walk from the hotel. In fact, the
entire town of Saratoga Springs is a
short walk from the hotel.
The town has all that one could
want. Fast food to gourmet restaurants,
all kinds of shopping from high end
boutiques to dollar store, ice cream
stores galore, art galleries, beautiful
parks, and museums —- all a very
short walk from the Holiday Inn. We
ate out on the patio and then walked
back to take a dip in the indoor pool
before retiring.
Saturday dawned dubious with plenty of clouds and wind. The kid of day
you are thankful that you didn’t fly. We
had breakfast in the hotel’s restaurant.
They had a buffet (you could order ala
carte off the menu) for $9.95. After
breakfast, we looked up Vicki Brown,
sales manager, who has been in constant contact with Rico. She is a very
good person. We’re in good hands with
her.
We decided to see the nearby
Museum of Dance. Saratoga is the
summer home of the New York City
Ballet. I have performed with them
countless times over the last 45 years
and did one summer season here at
Saratoga, where I commuted from the
NY metro area (mostly via C-172).
This museum could take about an hour
for the non-afficianado. We spent
about 2 hours taking in the exhibits
and watching some videos, two of
which I was playing tuba on! The
museum is just under a mile south of
the Holiday Inn.
A quick return to the hotel and we
were pleasantly surprised by the crowd
assembled in the lobby! This had
clearly turned into a predominantly
couples event. I must say we have a
good number of chapter members living in the area. Rico Cannone and Dale
Prividera were there along with Bill
and Sandy Natale and Joyce and Steve
Sevits, all from “nearby.”
Driving down from the Adirondacks
were Amber and Tom McKernan. I
would have thought that Gloria and I
would take the long distance honors
from Yonkers, N.Y., but Elaine and Ed
Shancey drove all the way from East
Haddam, Connecticut! That’s more
than our 3 hours! If you think that’s
impressive, Pat and David Adams
(from Windsock Village, N.H.)
stopped by on their way home from
Sun & Fun in Florida!
Rounding out this group were the
singles, Nick Frisz from nearby,
Patrick Morriss from Schenectady,
N.Y., and Tom Hurd from the Utica,
N.Y., area. All in all, an impressive
turnout for this event!
After all the hellos, etc., we were
given a tour of the facility by Vicki
Brown. There is an indoor and an outdoor pool, a health and fitness center
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(to be expanded, as well as a new and
larger lobby/welcome area), business
area with two computers, fax and
printer, a nice restaurant and bar facility with outdoor dining area as well,
numerous convention rooms to host
seminars, meetings of all sizes, as well
as our banquet. We saw several guest
rooms (double, single, king), all with
decent bathroom facilities, microwave,
flat screen TV, free wi-fi, as well as a
large hospitality suite that we’ll put to
use.
It was now time for lunch. We were
seated in the lounge area at a nice long
table to accommodate the 15 of us.
Lunch and beverages were on the management! I think this was a most generous gesture by the folks at the
Holiday Inn and I will thank them personally. The food and company were
fine.
We discussed many aspects of what
lies ahead for us. I’m not begging yet,
but we need involvement from our
membership for this to work and I’m
sure many of you will step up. Start
thinking about what types of seminars
we will want. I’m sure Steve Sevits
will be able to get some sort of presentation from the Albany FSDO. The rest
is up to us.
We will need a keynote speaker for
our banquet, as well as a speaker for
our membership luncheon. A planned
dinner cruise on Lake George (probably Wednesday night, July 3) will be a
popular event. We discussed the everpopular poker run and sort of have the
airports picked out. I’m not quite sure
how the non-flyers (drivers) will work
out, but I’m sure someone will explain
the logistics for this aspect of the
event.
Vicki Brown will have an easy hotel
registration format online in the near
future. We’ll let you know when. I will
probably handle the convention registration. We discussed using our old
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convention logo/patch from the 1992
convention. (Editor’s note: And two
variations of the patch have already
been drawn up as possibilities!)
We will get more specific about
caps, patches, t-shirts or polos with
logo, giveaways for attendees, etc., in
the very near future. Also needed to be
discussed are door prizes and raffles.
We had a convention program in 1992
with many ads from local and national venues. This raised a good bit of
revenue for the chapter/convention
and I think should be considered.
From what I saw last weekend, the
sky’s the limit!
The Northeast Chapter is on a roll!
We’ve gotten in our April and May
fly-ins! The weather was not so great
on Saturday for the May fly-in.
Sunday morning was also IFR in
many places. By around 10, the clouds
got high enough and I departed HPN.
My plan was to get over to the Hudson
River, under the low clouds, then
wend my way north.
All stations north of Poughkeepsie
were reporting higher than 3000 feet,
scattered/broken. By the time I started
my climbout, I realized that I could
comfortably go direct to Saratoga.
Yes, we returned to Saratoga and Rico
Cannone’s hangar. Rico shares this
spiffy spot with a couple of nice folks,
including Basil Dobush, who has been
to many of our fly-ins. They had plenty of chairs, picnic tables, a barbecue
grill, and Rico had plenty of food to
augment what we brought for ourselves.
Besides myself flying up from
Westchester County in my Tri-Pacer,
Mike Hirsch flew in from Beverly,
Mass., in his Pacer, David Adams and
friend Arthur Penanan flew in from
Windsock Village, N.H., in David’s
Tri-Pacer, Tom and Amber McKernan
flew down from Adirondack Airport
Andy Seligson (left) and
Mike Hirsch at the grill!
in their Colt, Basil Dobush, Rico
Cannone, and Dale Prividera live here
and base their planes at Saratoga. The
weather up in this area as well as the
rest of the day was great warm springtime.
After a great lunch and hangar flying session, we got down to work on
next year’s SWPC convention. The
folks at the Saratoga Convention and
Tourism Bureau made up a great 2sided color flyer for our convention.
Rico forwarded it to me and it looks
great. (Editor’s note: See separate
story in this issue for the details printed on the flyer —- and if you attended
the convention you probably got to
view one of the full-color flyers
there!)
The flyer lists the convention from
Sunday, June 30, to July 4. We will
certainly be at the Holiday Inn and the
airport on Saturday and Sunday and
many convention-goers will arrive a
day or two early to beat any weather.
Our official “opening” will be the
meet and greet at the hotel on
Monday, the 1st.
So far, I will handle registrations for
the convention. The registration fee
will probably be the same as this
year’s —- $25 per person until a cutoff date and $40 per person at the convention. Vicky Brown will be creating
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Amber and Tom McKernan
and Basil Dobush are shown in
Rico’s hangar.
SWPC president Peter Lubig
and Rico Cannone are shown
with Peter’s Pacer during his
stopover at Saratoga.
an online hotel reservation for the
attendees. The rooms at the Holiday
Inn will have a convention rate of
$125.
President Peter Lubig had planned
to meet with us but weather intervened. He did stop in and visit with
Rico.
We will be contacting the Pierces
from Tennessee for information on
who they got their shirts and caps
from. They were impressive in appearance and quality. Keeping costs down
as much as possible while maintaining
quality will be important.
On Tuesday or Wednesday evening,
we will offer a dinner cruise on nearby
Lake George. There will also be a trip
offered to the nearby Saratoga
National Battlefield. We discussed the
need for various forms of ground
transportation. Both Rico and former
member Mike Archambault will be
looking into the costs for any bus
transportation we will need as well as
costs of van rental for transporting
folks to and from the airport. This is
where we will really need reliable vol-
unteers (who might have a minivan(?)
Vendors and seminars are important
things at the convention. We discussed
what types of seminars we want that
will be of interest to all. I will be
speaking to the “national” folks on
vendors. Door prizes are always popular, especially with the recipients. I
kind of like how some past convention
handled them with donations from
chapters, individuals, and vendors.
Attendees buy raffle tickets to win and
the convention makes a buck to cover
expenses.
We will probably have the membership buffet lunch on Wednesday and
will need an interesting speaker for
that as well as the keynote speaker for
our closing banquet on Thursday
evening. One name raised for the
keynote speaker was our own member
and past Flying Magazine writer Tom
Bennenson. Speaking of Thursday
evening, July 4, Saratoga has their
huge fireworks display right out the
back door of the hotel in Congress
Park. We’ll try our best to coordinate
the banquet and the fireworks.
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Our neighboring chapter, MidAtlantic, will be offering some aid as
they can. We will need aircraft judging, parking, airport operations, volunteers. As I write my first article on the
convention for the SWPN, website,
forums, I will extend this invitation for
volunteers. Of course, we will have a
flying/driving poker run and will
organize this as well. We have a short
window open for ideas and welcome
your input. While the national SWPC
has some people to help out behind the
scenes, it is our baby. We’ve done two
successful SWPC conventions in the
past.
I’m telling you that with this airport,
hotel and location, this could be one of
the best conventions yet! There is just
so much to do here of interest for anybody. Food, the arts, art galleries,
many museums, world class golf,
shopping galore, interesting destinations to fly or drive to. Most of the
interesting venues are within walking
distance of our hotel! I’m getting
excited!
Ohio
Buckeye
By Pat Lautzenheiser
Chapter Secretary
The weather was spectacular for flying for about three weeks before our
April meeting at Richmond Municipal
Airport. But come April 14 it went
predictably “in the dumper.” Can you
say downpour, thunder, lightning,
windy and miserable?
Nevertheless, 14 enthusiastic
Buckeye members braved the wet
roads and drove to the meeting. In
attendance were Tom and Denise
Anderson, Leon and Carolyn Awalt,
Cecil and Lila Bright, Dean and Amy
Dayton, Jack and Pat Lautzenheiser,
and new members Bob Rehmel, Sr.,
with his daughter-in-law, Ronnie
Rehmel, and hosts Rosemarie and
Ralph Gutowski.
Bob Rehmel, Sr., is a partner with
son Bob Jr. (aka Shaun) and Ronnie in
a 1960 Tri-Pacer which they just
bought from the Brights. Shaun could
not attend the meeting because of business in Mexico. The Rehmels keep
their pretty red and white PA-22 at
Richmond.
The treasurer’s and secretary’s
reports were approved as read. The
chapter voted to send two cash door
prizes to be awarded at the convention.
The 50/50 drawing was won by Tom
Anderson.
Following the official meeting, the
men adjourned to Ralph’s hangar to do
the airplane thing, while the women
stayed at the FBO and discussed all
matters of interest to them. Most people stayed until 4 p.m.
Meeting schedule (with meetings
usually on the second Sunday or
Saturday):
August, Mt. Victory (O74)
September, Hillsboro (KHOC),
Widmans
October 13 or 14, Marysville
(KMRT), Daytons hosting
November 4, Schultzes Airport
(69OI)
May Fly-in Report
The weather was spectacular for
flying – sunny with winds light and
variable and temps in the low 80’s and five Short Wing Pipers showed
up. Arriving by air were: Blue’s TriPacer (N2177A - Chillicothe),
Gutowski’s Tri-Pacer (N7424D –
Richmond), Isbell’s PA-22/20 “Pacer”
(N3958P - Port Columbus Int’l), Terry
Kuebler’s Colt (N5615Z - Bolton),
and Widman’s Colt (N4828Z Hillsboro).
Following lunch at J.P.’s Famous
Bar-B-Que Ribs and Chicken joint
next to the control tower, we
adjourned to the terminal lobby next
door for the meeting. In attendance
were Tom and Denise Anderson, Bob
and Jean Blue, Ralph Gutowski, new
member Terry Kuebler, Jack and Pat
Lautzenheiser, Ralph and Jan
Widman, and hosts Jerry and Kay
Isbell.
The treasurer’s and secretary’s
reports were approved as read. The
treasury has $550 in it.
Ralph Gutowski gave an update on
Dick Zukowitz’s medical condition. A
sheet was circulated for everyone to
add get-well wishes to be mailed to
Dick. (Editor’s note: Dick was at the
time spending a month in the hospital.
He was released to go home on May
30. To send good wishes to the
Zukowitzes, send them to Dick and
Nancy Zukowitz, 1035 Enterprise Rd.,
West Alexandria, OH 45381).
Jerry Isbell gave two reports: One
was about the two Piper Cubs that
were to fly a tour of Ohio starting on
May 13th with the goal of landing in
every county (there are 66 of them).
Jerry also let everyone know how to
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go about reserving an airplane parking
/ camping site at Oshkosh near the
Hanger Café . Contact Jerry if you
would
like
the
details.
(jisbell@columbus.rr.com)
WELCOME NEWEST MEMBERS
More about new members Bob
Rehmel, Sr. with his son Bob Rehmel
Jr. (who also goes by Shaun) and his
wife, Ronnie Rehmel. Bob, Jr. is a
gear engineer who travels internationally on business and Ronnie works at
Miami University. Bob Sr. lives in
Richmond, Ind., and Shaun and
Ronnie live in Liberty, Ind.
We are also glad to have new member Terry Kuebler. Terry hails from
Gahanna, Ohio, and flies a 1962 Colt
which he bases at Bolton Field.
Maintenance Tip of The Month
SWINGING YOUR COMPASS
By Ralph Gutowski, A&P
Even in this day of GPS navigators,
we do not have the option of removing
the compass from atop our instrument
panels. I actually encountered a freshly restored Tri- Pacer at Oshkosh a
couple of years ago that had no compass, nor a directional gyro, “because
all I need is my handheld GPS, here!”
If your aircraft was certified with a
compass in it you must fly with a compass installed (wet or vertical card) to
be legal, or risk being cited during a
ramp inspection. Because most of us
Short Wingers must fly with a compass installed, they should be calibrated to show magnetic headings accurately. The calibration procedure is
called “swinging the compass.”
When to Perform a Compass
Swing:
AC 43.13-1B lists instances when a
compass swing must be performed.
These include:
*When the accuracy of the compass
is suspected.
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*After a cockpit modification or
major replacement involving ferrous
metal.
*Whenever a compass has been subjected to a shock; for example, after a
hard landing or turbulence.
*After aircraft has passed through a
severe electrical storm.
*After a lightning strike.
*Whenever a change is made to the
electrical system.
*Whenever a change of cargo is
likely to affect the compass.
*When an aircraft operation is
changed to a different geographic location with a major change in magnetic
deviation (e.g., from Miami, Fla., to
Fairbanks, Alaska).
*After an aircraft has been parked
on one heading for more than a year.
*And, of course, whenever a new
compass is installed.
Before You Begin
Before beginning a compass swing,
there are a few tips to keep in mind.
Ensure the area where the compass
swing is performed is free of steel
structures, underground pipes or
cables, or equipment that produces
magnetic fields. If the airport has a
compass rose to perform compass
swings, these areas are typically surveyed to assure it is free of interference.
Those performing the compass
swing should remove any magnetic or
ferrous items from their person. Use
only non-magnetic tools when adjusting the compass. Position the aircraft
at least 100 yards from any metal
object. If there is any equipment
aboard the aircraft that has any magnetic effect on the compass, ensure it is
secured in the position it would be in
during normal flight. Check the maintenance manual to ensure the aircraft is
configured properly before beginning
the compass swing.
Performing the Compass Swing
Mechanics typically use one of two
methods to swing the compass on an
aircraft. They either perform it on a
compass rose at the airport, or use a
calibrated master compass to align the
aircraft during the swing. Using a
GPS’s heading indicator (set to magnetic north, not true north) as a crossreference is a good idea. Always refer
to the maintenance manual for specific
swing procedures. Here are the basic
steps involved in performing a compass swing. Complete instructions may
be found in AC 43.13-1b, Chapter 12,
pages 12-13 & 12-14.
1. With the engine running at
approximately 1,700 RPM and aircraft
in proper configuration for LEVEL
CRUISE flight, align the aircraft to the
0 degree (north) heading. If the aircraft
compass is not in alignment with magnetic north, adjust the north-south
compensator screw with a non-metallic screwdriver (made of brass or aluminum welding rod) until the compass
reads 0 degrees.
2. Align the aircraft to the 90-degree
(east) heading. If the aircraft compass
does not indicate 90 degrees, adjust the
east-west compensator screw until it
reads 90.
3. Align the aircraft to the 180degree (south) heading. Note the indicated heading on the aircraft compass.
If it is not 180, adjust the north-south
compensator screw to remove half the
difference of the reading and actual
heading. For example if the compass
reads 184 while the aircraft is positioned at 180 degrees, adjust the northsouth compensator until the compass
indicates 182 degrees.
4. Align the aircraft to the 270degree (west) heading. If the compass
does not indicate 270, adjust the eastwest compensator to split the difference as in the above step.
You are now ready to swing the aircraft around the headings. Starting
with the current heading (270) mark
down the actual reading on the compass. Turn the aircraft around the compass rose at each 30-degree heading
and record the compass readings.
Ensure there is not more than a 10degree difference between any of the
indicated headings on the compass and
the actual heading. If the compass
can’t be adjusted to meet the requirements, install another one.
NOTE: A common error that affects
the compass’ accuracy is the mounting
of a compass or instruments on or in
the instrument panel using steel
machine screws/nuts rather than brass
hardware, magnetized control yoke,
structural tubing, and improperly routed electrical wiring, which can cause
unreasonable compass error.
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According to AC 43.13-1b, If the
aircraft has an electrical system, two
complete compass checks should be
performed, one with minimum electrical equipment operating and the other
with all electrical accessories on (e.g.
radios, navigation, radar, and lights). If
the compass readings are not identical,
the mechanic should make up two separate compass correction cards, one
with all the equipment on and one with
the equipment off.
When the compass is satisfactorily
swung, fill out the calibration card
properly and put it in the holder in full
view for the pilot’s reference. Even if
the corrections are “zero”, you still
must have a card in the compass card
holder to be legal.
Refer to CFR14, 23.1327, 14 CFR
23.1547, and the equipment or aircraft
manufacturer’s manual.
Chapters, Chapters,
Chapters
Join your local chapter for more fun flying! Just
click on chapters on www.shortwing.org (or see
the list in this issue). No chapter near? Why not
try to start one? Contact Lew Porter, chapter
coordinator (contact information on page ii in
the front of this issue).
Joining a chapter offers you a chance for the 5
F’s --- food, fun, flying, fellowship, and family!
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By Peter Lubig
Chapter President
April 28th, 2012, was the date of the
Short Wings Over Canada Chapter flyin; the day’s weather was clear and
calm winds. The plan was to meet at
the Peterborough airport. We had 12
members of the Chapter fly in. We had
a vast array of subjects that were discussed and it seems that we will have
some work ahead of us to make this
Chapter a success.
The major point that we are faced
with is to send out a mailout to the
other 500 owners of Short Wings in
Canada to join both the SW Club and
this Chapter.
The Canada Chapter is very active
across the country and invite any Short
Wing owners to email us to either join
or update us with their contact info.
Please email Paul Irwin (paulmirwin@sympatico.ca), for registration.
Please check our website for continuous updates:
www.shortwingsovercanada.com
Here’s the group. Peter is at the left.
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News from SWPN advertisers
Wag-Aero’s newest catalog a tribute
to the company’s late founder
Wag-Aero, one of the Short Wing
Piper News longtime advertisers, has
been a worldwide manufacturer and
distributor of aircraft parts for the
General Aviation Industry for over 50
years and lost its company founder this
year.
Wag-Aero’s latest catalog is a tribute
issue for Dick Wagner, who passed
away on January 1, 2012.
Becca Findlay, the marketing associate for Wag-Aero, notes that “Dick
was a leader in the industry, had a passion for aircraft and an uncanny knack
for identifying passing aircraft without
looking up. Dick, along with his wife,
Bobbie started one of Wisconsin’s
most successful aviation enterprises.
The duo started Wag-Aero out of their
basement in their home in Lyons,
Wisconsin, in the early 1960s. The
company grew and moved to its current location on North Road. WagAero was one of the first mail order
companies to distribute their catalogs
free of charge and still offers that
today.”
The catalog has a completely new
cover design with hopefully more
revamping to come, Findlay said.
Wag-Aero’s latest catalog
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News from SWPN advertisers
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Covers for airplanes, jets, helicopters,
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Common summer maladies for
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dog-loving pilot must contend with
summer maladies that infect their precious pets.
Sunburn, being the most prevalent
malady, can affect an aircraft just as
likely as it will affect people and pets.
Overexposure to the sun means susceptibility to ultraviolet radiation.
These damaging rays can zap an aircraft’s paint leaving it dry and faded,
and can harm windows rendering them
hazy, even distorted. Additionally, the
sun’s harmful rays can quickly heat
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uninhabitably hot and adding the
potential to damage plastics, vinyl, and
avionics.
Avionics are sensitive, not to mention expensive, equipment that are
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something goes wrong it can often lead
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hence, keep avionics from frying.
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A comfortable pilot is a more
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pilot comes into contact with is the
seat under their pants. Protecting
upholstery inside an airplane is as simple as keeping it cool from the heat
that summer brings.
Foreign object debris, or FOD, protection goes toe-in-toe with elemental
protection. The best solution for protecting delicate aircraft exteriors
whether aluminum, plexiglass, composite, or fabric, is a custom fitted
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keep turbine engine propellers from
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News from SWPN advertisers
Avemco president
spoke to Alaska airmen
Avemco Insurance Company president Jonathan “JJ” Greenway was a
featured speaker at the 2012 Great
Alaska Aviation Gathering, May 5-6,
at the Anchorage International Airport.
Greenway spoke about separating fact
from fiction in his seminar “Top 10
Aviation Insurance Myths.”
“You know it’s possible to have too
little aviation insurance but can you
have too much? Is it true your insurance company will refuse to pay a
claim if you violate an FAR? Of
course you’re covered if you’re a
named-pilot on a friend’s policy . . . or
are you? Those are the kind of questions most pilots think they know the
answers to but may be surprised by
some of the facts about aviation insurance coverages especially when flying
in the conditions faced by Alaskan aviators,” said Greenway.
During the Forum, Alaska aviators
were provided with information about
insuring their aviation activities that
many did not realize were of value to
them. “Seeing that Alaskan pilots are
interested in what an insurance compa-
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ny has to offer we are planning to offer
future safety seminars and education
presentations that will assist the
Alaska general aviation community in
gaining a better understanding of accident causes and what they can do to
avoid them using general information
gleaned from our claims statistics that
would not otherwise be readily available” said Greenway. The training
will include data on combating
Alaska’s takeoffs and landings incidence percentage which is generally
known to be the highest in the US.
“Flying in Alaska is unique and it’s
something that not everyone can do or
understand right away. We appreciate
the fact that Alaskan pilots have terrain and weather condition issues like
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them to be trained locally with
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and pilots need to have coverage for
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that type of aviator and we’ve been
working for and with them for over 50
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continued
Greenway.
JJ Greenway has over 14,000 hours,
is an active CFI and former airline
pilot and check airman. Prior to joining Avemco, he served as captain with
American Airlines and more recently
as the director of Safety for the AOPA
Air Safety Institute.
The “Great Alaska Aviation
Gathering” event was sponsored by
Avemco
president
JJ
Greenway with his Bellanca
Decathalon
the Alaska Airmen’s Association, features a tradeshow and forums for
pilots flying in Alaska. Over 20,000
were in attendance.
Avemco Insurance Company, a
leading pleasure and business general
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has been insuring planes and pilots
since 1961. Headquartered in
Frederick, Maryland, Avemco is rated
AA (Very Strong) by Standard &
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Best Company. Avemco has also
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The
BestMark Program was created to distinguish insurance companies with at
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or higher. For the latest rating, visit
www.ambest.com. Avemco is a wholly owned subsidiary of HCC
Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:
HCC) a leading international specialty
insurance group.
SWPN advertisers should
be our first call when we
need parts and service.
They’re supporting our
airplanes and we need to
support them!
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The SWPC
Web Store
Your Home for
CD’s and More!
Check it out on the club’s new and
improved web site:
www.
shortwing.org
Make a difference!
Join a local chapter and attend the fly-ins, fly to the regional
events, fly to the convention, send in a story to the SWPN, use
the library and the club’s website, donate to the library and
to the Education Foundation (Hey, Education Foundation
donations are even tax deductible!), run for office, vote in the
elections, call convention director Andy Seligson and volunteer to help at next summer’s convention, tell someone about
the Short Wing Piper Club, give someone your copy of the
SWPN (and call Eleanor for a replacement copy), find someone you can nominate next year for one of the scholarships
the club gives out to people pursuing aviation careers, spread
the joy of belonging to your club!
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More scenes from
Convention 2012
The Meet and Greet
Among those visiting with friends at the Meet and Greet at the
airport that officially began the convention in Ogden for most convention-goers were Henry Plant, Grantville, Ga., Linda Cochran,
Petaluma, Calif., and Tee Rush, Jefferson, Ga..
The Meet and Greet, with barbecue and the fixings served, provided a chance
for convention goers to unwind and renew old friendships as well as make new
ones. As you can see from the states represented in these three photos, people
came from all over for the convention --- Georgia, California, Michigan, Nevada,
Washington, Canada, and Illinois --- and mingled!
For the last several years, the club has provided the Meet and Greet reception
as a free event for convention-goers. Aside from the Executive Committee meeting, which began earlier that afternoon, the Meet and Greet got the convention
off to a great start!
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On the left side of the table above are Clyde and Marion Grant,
Beaverton, Mich., with Carolyn Gifford, Las Vegas, Nev., (left) and
Rava Stewart, Cashmere, Wash., on the right.
Club president Peter Lubig (right) visits with the Hunt party.
Byron Hunt, Rockford, Ill., is in the center, with Zach Hunt on the
left, and Wally Hunt with his back to the camera.
Put yourself in the picture next year!
Plan to attend the 2013 convention in Saratoga, N.Y.
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Breakfasts at the hotel were
another chance to socialize!
The round tables in the dining area were just made for SWPC
gatherings. From left are Barb Miller, most recently of Torrington,
Wyo., but moving to Montana; Bill Spurlock, Elk City, Okla.; Candy
and Jim Butler, Evansville, Ind.; Jim Gardner, Vinita, Okla., and Kent
O’Kelly, Castle Rock, Colo.
Sam and Sandy Archer, Independence, Ore., are in the foreground, with Jim and Janice Fix seated next to them. Jim and Janice
are from Lincoln, Neb., where they have their Fix Prop Shop and
their foam business.
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Clockwise from left around this table are Larry Jenkins,
Hernando, Miss., Peter and Julie Jeffs, Baker City, Ore., and Theresa
(Tee) Rush, Jefferson, Ga. Larry is the director of the Education
Foundation and Tee directed the judging for the Ladies Choice
award. (Editor’s note: I remember talking to Julie at the first convention she attended. She said, “I’ve had so much fun this won’t be
my last convention!” That’s true for most people.)
Al and Lettie Hoyt, Apple Valley, Calif., are fixtures at the convention. Al has won the award for the oldest pilot flying in at several conventions (but I think they drove this time and besides that
wasn’t one of the awards). Al keeps me entertained with emails during the year between conventions.
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The activities are fun but the
convention is really about people
The membership luncheon and the closing banquet brought
most of the convention goers together. This shot is an overview of
people at the banquet. How many can you name? And are you in the
picture? I see the Pierces, Barb Miller, Jim Butler and his wife,
Candy, Kent O’Kelly, Kurt Selbert, Tim Timmons, Roni and Stewart
MacPherson, Tom Brent, Bill Thomas, and a bunch of other people!
Connie Stevens, Homewood, Calif., was a great addition to the executive board
meeting, with several ideas for
improving the club. She
stressed the need to have good
financial records in recommending Kaaren McGlynn for the treasurer’s job and urged the board
to adopt new bylaws to separate
the Education Foundation more
thoroughly from the club itself.
Connie and her husband, Lew
Reinkens, president of the
Northern California Chapter, are
involved in the planning of the
2014 convention.
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Two of the hard-working people in the club are Fred Mayes (left)
and Dave Hedditch (right). They’re the two at-large members of the
executive board that were able to attend the convention (but we’ll
see the other one, Andy Seligson, next year at the Saratoga convention). Fred is from Lebanon, Mo., and Dave is from Victor, Mont.
Well, they’re not people, but these delicious cookies and candies were all brought to the convention by volunteers and placed in
the hospitality room. Thank you, one and all!
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One of the club members at the convention said he was really
enjoying himself and really appreciated that there was free time to
do things with his family. My family and I found that true, as well.
Above, my daughter Kay and the three grandchildren (Izzy, Cali, and
Annie) are framed by mountains. We took advantage of some free
time to drive to Salt Lake City and do a hike in the nearby mountains. We also went to Antelope Island and enjoyed the bison and
other wildlife. Kay and I told the kids that the salt water would keep
you afloat, but we found that the Great Salt Lake was so low that Izzy
said she couldn’t really tell if she floated because she was so close
to the bottom. While I went to a meeting, Kay and the girls took the
train into Salt Lake City and heard a rehearsal of the Morman
Tabernacle Choir. The girls also went rock climbing and sky diving
(indoors at I-Fly in Ogden). For us, it really was all the F’s (except flying, since we drove) --- but certainly the convention provided us
with fun, fellowship, food, and family --- and most of the others got
to fly! I’m already looking forward to Saratoga next summer and
Santa Maria the following year!
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Aircraft for Sale
PA-22-150, 2280 TTA&E, 392 SMOH.
Full gyro panel, new battery and fuel selector 2011, rebuilt carburetor. Ceconite covering in excellent condition. Brackett air filter, auto fuel STC. All logs since new.
Always hangared; stored for last 27 years.
Needs radio gear and annual inspection.
Health issues force sale. Hangared at
Pontiac, Mich. $15,000. Pictures available
upon request. For details contact 248-9307898 or vpjones@wowway.com.
tfc
1950 PIPER PACER s/n 34. 6937K, 150
hp, 150 hp Lyc O-320. 660 SMOH, 2400
TT, 1950 lbs. gross, 1120 lbs. mt.. Grand
Champion award winner. Complete frame
up restoration Feb. 08. No rust. Epoxy
primed and Aerothane on all steel. S/B 819
complied with. Poly Fiber covering and
paint. New windshield, stainless brakes,
hardware, B & C oil filter adapter, vortex
generators, extended baggage bay,
Monocoupe style wheel pants, all speed
fairings. Engine was balanced by Monte
Barrett. Is very smooth with all compressions at 77 or better. King KY97A comm.
Garmin GTX327 digital transponder,
Garmin GPS, David Clark headsets.
Comes with fresh cylinder assy as spare
parts. All logs since new. Will consider
delivery. This airplane is a super performer,
a solid 10 for looks and craftsmanship and
needs nothing. Price reduced to $44,000.
CD of pictures available for serious persons. John Hudec, 918-371-5029,
bhudec2898@netzero.com
tfc
N3491A, 1953 PA-22-135, s/n 22-1763,
OUT OF ANNUAL, approx. 2522 hours,
1400 SMOH, 578, STOP. All logbooks.
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$18K restoration in 1998, hangared since.
Tubing bead blasted and epoxy primed,
new sealed struts. Ceconite on all, all new
Airtex interior in Pewter and Maroon,
including headliner. New Slick mags and
harness, OHC vacuum pump, oil pump AD
researched and does not apply. OHC prop,
OHC brake master, shock cords and more.
Needs a battery. No radios but has gyros.
New tires and tubes in 2010. Factory annual checklist run in February 2010, but
annual not signed off. All AD’s c/w up to
that time. AC is in Springtown, Texas, and
is offered as is for $14,000. Call Jeff, 9
a.m.-9 p.m. EST at 321-544-3897. tfc
1954 TRI-PACER PA-22 for sale: 135 hp
(O-29-D2), serial no. 22-2104, N3284B,
AC TT 3223.79; tach 1292.84. All AD’s up
to date. Skytec starter; alternator; intercom; transponder; Mode C; strobes. Wings
recovered in 1996. II Morrow 360 GPS;
MR 12 DCR radio. Rebuilt fuel selector in
2010. Sealed struts. Wheel pants. Fabric
all tests good. Fresh annual 4-1-11. New
battery. $16,500 or best offer. 419-7825449. Ask for Roger. Plane always kept in
hangar in Defiance, Ohio. E-mail
oliphant@defnet.com tfc
1956 PA-22-150, tach 1238.4 hours, total
time 1769.3 hours, engine time 204 hours.
Ceconite, aluminum wings have been
removed for shipping. Always hangared.
Out of inspection. Accepting serious offers.
716-676-5583
or
email
Kathleenkellogg@aol.com
tfc
1957 Piper Tri-Pacer, PA-22-150/160,
N7209D: total time airframe 4112 hours.
Engine - Lycoming O320-B2B-160 hp, total
time 698 hours since remanufacture by
Mattituck with Brackett air filter and oil
quick drain assy. Fuselage and wings are
metalized, tail feathers and landing gear
assembly are Ceconite fabric covered.
Univair sealed struts with new forks. Radio
1 - Bendix King KX125 - communication
and transceiver/navigation receiver. Radio
2 - Mark 24 with VOR navigation.
Flightcom 403 panel mount 4-place intercom and yoke mount push to talk switch.
Garmin 196 GPS mounted on pilot yoke.
KT-78 transponder and ACK-30 encoder.
Emergency locator transmitter. Grimes
belly strobe. Bogart copper battery cables
modification. Cleveland disc brakes and
wheels. RESTORATION AND UPGRADES
COMPLETED IN SEPTEMBER 2007:
complete airframe restoration and refinish.
Installation of Williams dual toe brakes
modification. New rudder and elevator
cables. New bungee cords. Nose strut
assembly rebuilt. New bearings and races
in main landing gear wheels. Installed oil
filter mod and replaced oil lines to oil cooler with new flex lines and fittings. New
windshield and all windows. Aircraft completely painted with Imron paint. Aircraft
reupholstered with Airtex Deluxe fabric seats, sidewalls, carpet, panel cover, baggage area. Cabin insulated with 1-inch
high tech insulation. New Bruce Top of the
Line canopy cover. Aircraft rerigged to factory specs. Aircraft weighed - new useful
load 757 pounds. All AD’s complied with.
July 2009 new aircraft battery installed.
Last annual, November 1, 2011, new ELT
installed. Complete logs. A No. 10 interior
and a No. 10 exterior. Sale price, $35,000.
Owner: Ralph Baas, Gilbertsville, PA, 610754-9193.
tfc
1958 PIPER TRI-PACER PA-22-160,
modified to 150, C-FOSC, 2,395 TTAF/E.
130 SOH/AF, 988 SOH.EN. KX155 NavCom with 2 place intercom, KT76A
transponder with encoder, plus extras. All
AD’s complied with. Complete set of logbooks available back to factory delivery.
Always hangared. Located in Tyendinaga,
Ontario. Contact for complete history and
photos. $27,000 CAD dollars. 613-9670499, stewart.maclellan@yahoo.com
1958 TRI-PACER PA-22-160, N9321D,
2584 TT, 40 SMOH. New sealed struts and
forks, new battery, main gear, tires and
bungees, nav/com. Hangared since 1977
in the Chicago area. Fresh annual with
sale. $22,000. Contact John Guilfoil 847991-1598 or email karla_guilfoil@sbcglobal.net
tfc
1958 TRI-PACER 160, metalized, Apollo
panel-mounted GPS, Narco nav/com and
transponder, oil filter, disk brakes, Whelen
strobe, TT 2297, 180.1 SMOH including
zero-timed crankshaft and crankcase, indicates 140 mph at 2400 rpm. Sacrifice at
$19,995. Lost medical. Fresh annual at
sale. Bill, 631-979-2017.
tfc
1959 PIPER TRI-PACER CARRIBEAN,,
N9832D, TT 2742.1, SMOH 1620.7, STOH
1393.7. Garmin SL40, Mode C, new ELT,
new oil pump, new oil and fuel lines, rebuilt
generator, new headliner, Demers droop
tips, auto STC, 1/2-inch valves, oil heater,
new battery, wings and tail covered in 1994
in Poly, fuselage 2006 Poly. Compression
high 70s, 2 place intercom, 3 headsets,
Garmin GPS Pilot 2. Complete logs from
day one. Older radio and VOR go with it.
Good solid airplane for years of flight without maintenance. Health issues reason for
selling. June annual. Price $30,000.
Thomas A. Baker, Jr., 3321 Dwelle Dr.,
Enid, Okla. 73701, 580-242-6512.
tfc
1961 Piper Colt, 411 SMOH, Ceconite,
Bendix King nav/com KLX135A, KT76
transponder, $15,500. 816-257-5969. tfc
Projects for Sale
1954 Piper Tri-Pacer, PA-22-135 project.
Needs wings, instruments, accessories,
etc. Includes run-out O-290-D2 and S. Cub
prop. $3,995 OBO. 573-759-7143, Rolla,
Mo.
1955 Piper Tri-Pacer, 3560P, 150 hp Lyc
320, Sensenich prop, 3065 total time, 780
on major, 28 on new cylinders. IFR panel.
Current but doesn’t get flown much and
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could use fabric, which is why it’s a “project.” Can tell more than I can write!
$15,000. 409-996-9022 or 409-599-1275.
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.
Dontact Don Halloran, 801 South Lincoln
Ave., Marshfield, WI 54449. Phone 715387-3057. Email eishal@charter.net. (20
photos available)
tfc
Going to sell RV-8A project. Looking for
late Tri-Pacer project. Have zero time Lyc
O-320-B2A out of 1962 Tri-Pacer
Carribean. Delton Perkins, 281-427-1370.
Project Wanted
I am looking for a Tri-Pacer or Pacer
project, 150 hp or 160 hp. Please call Bob
at 661-978-0722.
tfc
Parts for Sale
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
O-290-D2,
zero
SMOH,
2325TT,
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majored in 2003, pickled and stored in my
living room closet since. $7,500. Call for
details
701-741-4349
or
email
dugie_88@msn.com
this on email. Any excess funds will be
returned by check. Don Anderson, member
4049, phone 530-272-2572, email
turbopop@att.net
tfc
2 NEW front sealed struts still in original
box, $900. Sensenich 74x64 propeller,
new, $1800. Call Ron Reid, 805-377-0887,
located in Southern California.
McCAULEY IC90 LM (7146). Will fit
Lycoming O-235, PA-12, PA-14, PA-16,
PA-18, and PA-20-115. $1300. Joe.
jvas41@aol.com, 612-282-7824
tfc
A FEW THINGS in my shop have to go.
I have more to dig out later, but for now,
here are some: A bunch of extra wheel
stuff, no STC needed, only form 337, $650;
Left and right front seat frames, no upholstery, very good shape, sell as pair only.
Was going to have them covered to save
down time in my bird, $275 pair only; PA22 battery cover (one ear broken off), $10;
New Bogart starter cable (copper), $20;
Rear stabilizer connector tube, PA-20/22,
$20; Carb., Marvel Schebler MA-4Spa, PN
10-5009, yellow tagged for needle seat
and float lever. Use it or core for new carb,
$525; 2 Scott 4200 brake parking valves.
(Similar to #4500 or replaces), $125 each;
Scott PA-22 master cylinder, $450; PA-22
stock master switch AN3023-1, $50;
Engine primer, $75; 2 navlite brackets
(wing mounts), $30; Windshield front surround (both parts) (predrilled) $90;
External wing tank gage holder, $15; Dual
magneto synchronizer (mfg. by Action Air
Parts), new, $40; New Bendix Magneto
S42LN-21 (left hand with impulse coupling), PN 10-51360-25, SN A96652, $475;
New Bendix Magneto S67LN21 (left hand
with impulse coupling), PN 10-51365-39,
SN 977901, $475; Both mags meet AD 9401-03; Turn and bank, electric RCAllen,
RCA2, $775; Directional gyro, Garwin
4000A, AN Style, with small Mooney logo,
$350; Instruments rebuilt by Century Inst.
and on shelf since (never installed).
Everything used except as noted. If something doesn’t meet your expectations,
return it to me and I will send a refund
check. All checks will be held until cleared.
Also send shipping costs. We can discuss
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
miss_pearl@cox.net --- 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
FABRIC RESTORATION, tailwheel
instruction, Lance Bartels, Cherry Hill
Aviation, Southern Indiana (Freetown,
Ind.), cherryhillaviation@yahoo.com or
812-322-6762.
mj11-12p
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
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detailed descriptions of how the work was
done are available from Bill Havener, 1409
6th Ave., Sterling, Ill. 61081, phone 815626-0910.
tfc
RETIRED WELDER/IA WANTS PA-22
ANNUALS. South Central Ohio, Highland
County Airport, Hillsboro, Ohio. Ralph
Widman-PH 937-364-6050. E-mail wizard-
ofwid@ aol.com
FOR HOW to make a new improved
rope control lock for your Pacer, Tri-Pacer
or Colt, send $5 to Havener Consulting,
1409 Sixth Ave., Sterling, IL 61081-2541.
ja-4t
Next Issue Deadline:
July 20
We’ll have more convention news in the
September-October issue --- 2012 and
2013! Please note the new deadline!
(Editor’s note: I realize July 20 is too early. If you can get your
material to me by the end of July, maybe we can hit the next deadlines! Either that or we’ll have a lot of convention news in the
November -December issue!)
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Chapter 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!
ALASKA: Rick Brenden, 31076 W. Lee Circle, Sutton, AJ 99674, 907-746-0992,
rickb@alaska.com
ARIZONA:Terry Karlson, 40490 Lovettsville Rd., Lovettsville, VA 20180, 540-8225954, email piper3737z@gmail.com
ARKANSAS RAZORBACK: Jay Bruce (acting president) 127 Woodland Dr.,
Searcy, AR 72143, 501-388-4874, email jbruce@sdstech.biz
CAJUN WING (Louisiana): Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this
chapter, contact Lew Porter.
CALIFORNIA
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Lou Reinkens, P.O. Box 226, Homewood, CA
9611-0226, 530-525-5273, email loureinkens@yahoo.com or lou@rockwoodlodge.com
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Anthony (Tony) Terrigno, 80529 Avenida
Camarillo, Indio, CA 92203, home 760-772-8480, cell 909-229-0821, E-Mail a_terrigno@msn.com
CAROLINAS: Steve Culler, 5900 Brookway Dr., Winston-Salem, NC 27105, 336767-6426. E-mail: n2311p@aol.com
COLORADO-WYOMING: Jim Lambert, 11660 E. 160th, Brighton, CO 80602, 303659-4938. E-mail,jdlambert@frii.com
COLUMBIA RIVER (Oregon and Washington): Brian McGlynn, 633 Stearman St.,
Independence, OR 97351-9412, 541-726-4088 home, 541-556-0716 cell, email mcglynnb@oandptesting.com
DAKOTA: D. Curtis Wik, 15116 349th Ave., Faulkton, SD 57438-5201, (winter
phone) 480-988-5922, (summer) 605-598-4464.
DIXIE (Alabama, Mississippi and northwest Florida): Currently inactive. If you
would like to reactivate this chapter, contact Lew Porter.
EASTERN MISSOURI (and Western Illinois): Greg Kuklinski, 8206 Brenner Ave.,
St. Louis, MO 63114, 314-209-1552. E-Mail, gregkpacer@juno.com
FLORIDA: George Klitsch, 410 Silver Streak Lane, Valrico, FL 33594, 813-6894822. E-Mail, gklitsch@tampabay.rr.com, website: florida-swpc.org
FLORIBAMA (150-mile radius of Pensacola, Fla.): Clifford Hill, 6395 Bay Oaks
Dr., Milton, FL 32583, 850-983-9457. E-mail n3399p@bellsouth.net
GEORGIA: David Martin, PO Box 36, Parrott, GA 39877, 229-395-5238,
jdmartin54@aol.com
HIGH PLAINS (Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle, eastern New Mexico): Mark
Merritt, P.O. Box 14610, Odessa, TX 79768, daytime phone 915-367-1188, home 915368-7441. E-mail, wsi_mmerritt@hotmail.com; http://highplainschapter.freeyellow.
com/index.htm
IDAHO Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this chapter, contact Lew
Porter. (See the Utah/Nevada/Idaho chapter in the meantime)
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ILLINOIS PLUS (northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, northwestern Indiana,
and northeastern Iowa): Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this chapter,
contact Lew Porter.
IOWA HAWKEYE: Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this chapter,
contact Lew Porter.
KANSAS PLANES: Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this chapter,
contact Lew Porter.
KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS: Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this
chapter, contact Lew Porter.
LINCOLN HERITAGE (Indiana, Southeastern Illinois, and Western Kentucky):
Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this chapter, contact Lew Porter.
MICHIGAN: Jerry Bednarchik, 41959 Brookview Ln., Clinton Twp., Mich. 480385227, 810-748-7178, email missbehaven_1999@yahoo.com
MID-AMERICA (Kansas/Missouri): Alan Arrow, 1009 S. Cedar, Savannah, MO
84485, 816-324-9898, cell 816-390-3447, email alan7410d@stjoelive.com
MID-ATLANTIC (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, northeastern
Virginia): Rich Capece, 2 Heron Lane, Millville, NJ 08332, home 856-765-7223, work
610-591-6168, cell 609-471-1519, E-mail rich_c@yahoo.com
MONTANA: Dave Hedditch, 501 Darla Dr., Victor, MT 59875, 406-360-3283,. E-mail,
drh29@bitterroot.com
NEBRASKA CORNHUSKER: Dallas & Lynette Worrell, 511 Road E, Schuyler, NE
68661, 1-402-353-3776. E-Mail, dalynworrell@live.com
NEW MEXICO: Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this chapter, contact Lew Porter.
NORTH CENTRAL (Minnesota and Wisconsin): Dennis Kahlhamer, P.O. Box 1,
Pierz, Minn. 56364. 320-630-4366. E-mail, dkm@midco.net
NORTHEAST (northeastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, New York,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine): Andy
Seligson, 331 Westchester Ave., Crestwood, NY 10707, 914-337-2968, E-mail, andytuba@optonline.net
OHIO BUCKEYE: Jack Lautzenheiser, 1515 E. Elm St., Lima, Ohio 45804, 419-2270932. E-mail, tripacer@woh.rr.com. http://www.shortwing.org/chapter/ Buckeye
OKLAHOMA: Jim Hunt (interim president) 39405 W. MacArthur St., Shawnee, OK
74804, 405-273-8723. E-mail jimandpat73@a4isp.com
PACIFIC ISLANDS: Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this chapter,
contact Lew Porter.
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this
chapter, contact Lew Porter.
TENNESSEE: Tom Brent, 540 CR-119, Walnut, MS 38683, 662-223-6257, E-Mail
president@tnswpc.org, http://www.tnswpc.org/index.php
TEXAS:
LONE STAR (South Texas): Dan Nicholson, 8319 Thora Lane, Hangar B-5,
Spring, Texas 77379, home 281-257-6342, cell 713-703-9333, e-mail dannick1935@sbcglobal.net. Website http://www.shortwing.org/Chapters/LoneStar/ index_nn4.html
LONGHORN (North Texas): Art McLemore, 417 Pecan Drive, Aledo, Texas
76008, 817-441-8897, email art-n-betty@att.net
UTAH/NEVADA/IDAHO: John Kobbeman, 5099 Kiwana Dr., Ogden, UT 84403, 801-
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920-1495
home,
801-499-0413
cell,
801-315-2313
work;
e-mail,
john.f.kobbeman@Boeing.com
VIRGINIA: Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate this chapter, contact Lew
Porter.
WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINEER: Currently inactive. If you would like to reactivate
this chapter, contact Lew Porter.
CANADA
ALBERTA: Marc Stewart, Suite 303-1 Springfield Ave., Red Deer, Alberta,
Canada T4N- 0C3, 403-396-3675, sturdywillow@hotmail.com
BRITISH COLUMBIA: Paul Evans, 26-2515 Fortress Drive,Port Coquitlam,
British Columbia V3C-6E8, 604-945-0588. E-Mail: hhuestis@mdi.ca; web:www.mdi.ca/hhuestis/swbc
SHORT WINGS OVER CANADA: Peter Lubig, 102 Highland Drive, Shanty
Bay, Ontario, Canada L0L 2L0, 705-835-0312, email lubig@planepictures.ca Chapter
website: www.shortwingsovercanada.com
Use your club! Join a chapter,
attend chapter fly-ins, attend
regional fly-ins, volunteer to help at
a convention, attend the conventions, use our web site (www.shortwing.org), shop at the club Web
Store (CD’s and more!), call your
officers or the technical committee
for advice, volunteer for a job with
the club, vote, check the posts on
Facebook, send in your stories and
photos to the Short Wing Piper
News! It’s your club!
Use it!
Index to Advertisers
Aircraft Specialties Services . . . . . . .69
Aircraft Tech. Support . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. . . . .19
Airtex Products, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Avemco . . . . . . . . . .Inside Front Cover
B & C Specialties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Bruce’s Custom Covers . . . . . . . . . . .14
Classified Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115-119
Fabric Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Fix Prop Shop, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Great Lakes Aero Products, Inc. . . . .23
Niagara Air Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
PolyFiber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Star Gloss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Stewarts Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Stewart STC’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Superflite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
SWPC Web Store . . . . . . . . . .46-47, 107
Univair Aircraft Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Inside Back Cover
Wag-Aero Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
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MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
Name
Spouse Name
Mailing Address
City
Telephone: Home
E-Mail
Occupation/Special Skills
Partner’s Name
State
Zip
Work/cell
Membership in the Short Wing Piper Club is open to all persons who own, fly
or are interested in the Piper Vagabond, Clipper, Pacer, Colt, and Tri-Pacer. The primary objective of the club is to aid members in the preservation, restoration, maintenance, flying and enjoyment of these aircraft. The membership year is 12 calendar
months from the date of acceptance.
I hereby submit this application for membership in the Short Wing Piper Club.
I have enclosed a check or money order payable in U.S. currency (a bank draft on a
U.S. bank or an international money order in U.S. Funds only) or authorize you to
charge my credit card for the following:
Check all desired:
Individual membership, 1 year
(U.S. or Canada, $40 yr.; other foreign, $50 yr.)
Additional membership $7 yr.
( Spouse
Partner)
Additional Years (at regular rate) 1 2 3 (Circle total years)
Donations:
Club Library
Education Foundation
Total
Spousal and partner memberships will not receive the Short Wing Piper News
but otherwise will have full membership privileges, including telephone and mail
access to the club library, tools and database plus voting privileges at the business
meeting at the annual convention They will also have access to the members’ only
section of the club website through the regular member. Dues and donations to the
club library are not tax deductible; however, donations to the Education Foundation
may be tax deductible.
I authorize The Short Wing Piper Club to charge my credit card as follows:
Visa
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Are you a member of a local
(Please give your credit card number)
chapter? Which one?
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Date
Feel free to add any comments or requests to the back of this form or
send them on a separate piece of paper.
Mail to:
Short Wing Piper Club, P.O. Box 10822, Springfield, MO 65808
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Gift Membership
Please enter a gift membership for one year for:
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Zip
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Please send a notice to the new member, indicating that the gift is
from
Enclose $40 U.S. and Canada or $50 other foreign. For Visa or
Mastercard use, fill in credit card information on the application
form on the reverse. Mail to
Short Wing Piper Club, P.O. Box 10822, Springfield, MO 65808
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SHORT WING PIPER
NEWS
SHORT WING PIPER NEWS - July-August 2012
Periodicals Postage
The
News
Short
Wing
Piper
July-August 2012
(ISSN 8750-9113)
820 E. University
Springfield, MO 65807
This beautiful painting of a
Tri-Pacer over a lake is by
aviation artist Barry Ross.
You can read about his
career (and his love of Short
Wings) inside!
Convention color photos
Short Wing Piper Club
Inc.
IN THIS ISSUE
More outstanding Short Wings such as Roni
McPherson’s Convention Grand Champion Clipper
(above) in a special color section, news from the
convention, technical reports, and chapter reports!