The latest issue of the Antique Airfield Runway has been delivered to the printers. We should begin mailing them out to all our members on Mon. July 19th. This issue contains all the Fly-in information for the upcoming AAA/APM Fly-in (Sep 1-6, 2010) as well as reports on the AZ, GA & Potomac Chapter Fly-ins. Also included news on no less than nine current members projects that have either been completed or are in the works. Look for this issue in your mailbox soon.

All of the Fly-In information is also available here online.

Eric Rearwin sent us a report on his Rearwin Speedster project, which is under restoration at Tim Talen's shop in Jasper, OR. This is a factory prototype Speedster and it is powered by a very rare Cirrus engine:

Monday July 5 was "birthing day" when we rolled the Speedster out of the shop and into the hangar for assembly! The tail feathers are on and the wings go on tomorrow, if we can line up the crew!

Also more news: the Hamilton-Standard Propeller is at the prop shop, Western Aircraft Propellor in Troutdale, OR, and will be completely reconditioned with plated hub and polished blades. They will do the complete tuneup and have it ready in about 30 days.

We were able to find the correct tubes for these unusual 7.00 x 5 Autofan wheels (circa 1933) and as I had the correct tires on hand we were able to get the wheels and tires all mounted up. They look great: Goodrich Silvertown aircraft tires. Unfortunately they get covered up by the wheel pants! It looks like we should be getting ready for a test run of the engine by late August and first flight soon thereafter.

Russell Williams' Ryan SC-W is getting new wheel pants. The old wheel pants were falling apart, and these new construction wheel pants will be more solidly mounted and won't have been patched 25 times!

The wheel pants were started by Ron Englund and are being finished by Norm Archer at Schellville Airport, near Sonoma CA. Doing this kind of sheet metal forming is hard when the part is painted, doing it to polish-ready grade requires amazing skill.

Charlie Brown of Bonners Ferry ID prepares and watches the first flight of his Stearman C3B after a 5 year restoration. The aircraft is powered by Wright J5 engine. The pilot is Addison Pemberton.

There's another antique-friendly IA out there - Ryan Pemberton passed his IA test and even beat his Dad's score. Congratulations Ryan!

APM Volunteer Rex Yoakam, with help from Cliff Hatz, is making rapid progress on his original design called simply, the "Racer".

It is a single place low wing monoplane that is powered by a Ranger V-12 engine. It definitely has the look of a 1930's style pylon polisher and with the V-12 should be an impressive performer.

Rex and Cliff are currently finishing up the extensive amount of sheet metal work on the fuselage.

AAA Member Jack McGee sent in some photos of his J-4 which has recently been put back in the air:

Thought you would like to see some pictures of my 1939 Piper Cub Coupe that was recently restored by Pete Yarbrough. Pete is a good friend of mine and took over and redid the whole project after I suffered a back injury. I had replaced the engine with an 85 Cont. Then he took over and put in new ribs from Dakota Cub new spars, new sealed struts new wiring (it had no electrical system), new Univair metal fuselage stringers, new leading edges, a new strobe on top of the rudder, rebuilt the landing gear shock struts, made an new instument panel, and redid the whole interior. Recovered the plane with Stits Poly fiber then repainted it.

I had John Kerr make a new cowling for the bird because when I bought the plane it had suffered a crankshaft failure and went over on its back in an off airport landing. It sure is a great airplane to fly.