Pre-registration for the 2010 AAA/APM Fly-in continues strong with a plethora of interesting airplanes and their owners planning to attend. Even more pre-registered planes:

• Scott and Sharron Haggenmacher's Supercruiser

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  1946 Piper PA-12 Supercruiser, Jonesboro, AR

  

• Ben Morphew's Callair

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  Callair A-2 N2914V, McKinney, TX

  

• Dave Denton's Callair

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  Callair A-2 N2916V, Siloam Springs, AR

  

• Frasca International's Fairchild PT-23

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  Fairchild PT-23 N64172, Urbana, IL

  

• Lynn Ford's Bellanca

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  Bellanca 14-19-2 N9818B, Gibsonia, PA

  

Here's the Florida Antique Biplane Association's August 2010 Newsletter.

See all the chapter newsletters.

From the newsletter: "This was captured during the trip to our Patch of Blue function in May. This is an unusual air to air image of Stan Dollen piloting his rare Meyers OTW. Haul those antiques out of the barn and fly off to a function of FABA or the AAA!"

Five Ryan STs gathered on the grass at Sonoma Valley Airport (aka Schellville), which is a west coast hotspot for antique aircraft. Jimmy Rollison, Chris Galloway, Don Carter, Walt Bowe, and Dave Masters brought out their Ryans for a photo shoot and some air to air. Photos by Michael Shreeve.

Bill Fields has a new acquisition and story:

Attached are pictures of my "new" Bellanca 14-9 that I purchased from Dean Tilton. I hope to be able to attend the AAA Fly-In coming up soon. I am waiting and waiting on plane to come out of annual.

I look forward to meeting you and attending your event. About 12 years ago I was in Burlington IA with my Franklin car attending one of our club tours. I drove over and toured the museum at that time drooling over the old planes.

"Better to Fly Ugly than Sit Pretty"

These words, uttered by one of our stalwart local member/volunteer's, may best describe the return to flying status of RLT's personal Interstate S-1A "Cadet".

For those that may not know, some five years ago an apparent tornado touched down at Antique Airfield shoving the doors in and blowing part of the roof off of hangar #2. The result was Interstate NC37381 was banged up pretty good. But now after overhauling the prop, recovering the rudder, attending to other damages incurred and mounting a new cowling (courtesy of Kent Pietsch) the Cadet has emerged from the hangar and taken to the skies with a new moniker, "Rudolph"

Ben Taylor is to be credited with the lion's share of work involved in getting NC37381 back into flyable condition.

Though not as pretty as before the Cadet seems to have picked up almost 5mph in cruise. We attribute this to the tighter cowling installation of Kent's cowling. Plans are after the AAA/APM Fly-in to paint the cowling and re-install the wheel pants that were damaged some time before the tornado incident. But that's another story.

Enjoy this short video of the second flight after getting "Rudolph" back to flying status.

Finally a Big "Thank You" to Kent Pietsch for the cowling and to Ben Taylor for all his hard work.

Brent Taylor

Just for fun, something about and for the young at heart. Video by Brent Taylor.

Pre-registration for the 2010 AAA/APM Fly-in continues strong with a plethora of interesting airplanes and their owners planning to attend. Here are a few more of the airplanes you can expect to see this year at Antique Airfield.

• Dale Alexander's Hatz

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  Hatz CB-1 N453HZ, Richland, MI

  

• Mark Liptrap's Howard

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  Howard DGA-15P N5432N, Spokane, WA

  

• Frants Madsen's Aeronca 65CA

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  Aeronca 65CA N29433, Melbourne, IA

  

• Joe Norris' UPF-7

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  Waco UPF-7 N39748, Oshkosh, WI

  

• Dan Sokolowski's Stearman

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  Stearman N222FK, Eagle, NE

  

With exactly four weeks until the start of the AAA/APM Invitational Fly-in, today (Aug. 4th) saw the first arrival for the Fly-in. Eric Presten and family arrived at Antique Airfield with their Bleriot replica in tow. The Bleriot is one of the key airplanes for this years event being a tie-in to "Iowa's 100th Anniversary of Powered Flight".

The Presten's had the Bleriot on the American Barnstormer's Tour earlier this summer as well as on display at Oshkosh last week. It currently is stored in Hangar #2 awaiting Eric's return in a few weeks to be assembled and flown (weather permitting) to give all our attendees a look back at aviation's earliest days. It will in fact, be the first time an aircraft with wing warping will have been flown from Antique Airfield. While it was a rainy dreary day here at Antique Airfield, Eric brightened everyone's mood by running the engine a bit before putting the Bleriot to bed in Hangar #2. With short stacks the Rotec Radial has a distinctive and most likely period sound to it. We look forward to seeing the Bleriot take to the skies from Antique Airfield in a few weeks.

Enjoy this short video (by Ben Taylor) of the engine run.

Jimmy Rollison sent us a video of a Ryan STA Special with new cylinders, running up on the ground. Love to hear those Menasco short stacks!

Rob Bach sent us a report on What We Did Last Weekend:

Ted Davis flew the Piet at Brodhead while I flew the New Standard. (photos Will Hamilton) Ted scared up a few rides in the D25 at sunset and I shepherded Nephew Will and star pupil Pat Zakrzewski on a tour around Illinois and Wisconsin ending at OSH. Pat Owns the Clipper, Brad Williams owns the Piet I built. (photos by me).

These two airplanes (and two young men) have become fast friends.

Both airplanes will be at AAA for the Big Dance.