Chuck Doyle recently built a new fuel tank for his Travel Air project, and sent us a step-by-step photo guide on how to do it. Thanks Chuck!

Addison says: To all

Yo ho.......... the Waco fuse wood is finished
Yo ho.......... the Waco wood was fun
Yo ho......... I still have all my fingers and toes the table saw and me are still friends
Yo ho......... how do not know how to get all this saw dust out of my hanger

Man this baby has alot of wood in it!!!! We have now started cover on the lower wings and will have the fuse ready for rag in 3 weeks after a few wires and tid bits. We plan to cover and finish paint and then install all the avionics dial widgets and switchy do-dads so as not to overspray all the detail stuff.

With the firewall off the panel wiring and avionics will be easy. Then she will up on the gear for good and we can install the wind machine up front to keep up cool in flight. This airplane has the cargo extended baggage and we and installing fold down rear seats as we saw in a Waco add for in flight slumber. This is for my wonderful wife who gets deathly airsick in the afternoon bumps.

Now the hanger turns into a nitrate and butyrate vapor filled fabric shop. Just call us sticky fingers for the next 6 months.

Jim Clark's C-8 project has well has Chris Galloway's and Jim Wheeler's C-6 have been a real inspiration for me.

Addison "I want to be Waco driver" Pemberton

Dale Jewett has a nicely restored Stinson HW-75, pictured here on takeoff and on a flyby.

Steve Newing, based at Gatton Airpark, Queensland, Australia, is planning to make a trip to Blakesburg this year for the National Fly-in. He won't be flying via Fairchild on his trans-pacific journey, but he did send us a photo of his Fairchild 24.

Steve says: "We have recently pulled it out of the sky for a re-fabric. A big job but the Fairchild has served us well for 20 year so it's time to give her something back."

Tim Lunceford of Albany, OR is continuing his quest to collect 'em all for Heath airplanes. His latest is this Baby Bullet project, which complements a flying Center Wing racer and a nearly-flying Heath Parasol.

The Baby Bullet is so small that shoes had to come off before Tim could fit into the cockpit!

Two Bückers flying in the San Diego area out of Gillespie Field.

Editorial request: While all the video from Bücker flyers is great and welcomed, surely there are some other folks out there shooting videos of their antiques or classics? Send it in!

The "Buy-a-Foot" campaign, to raise funds to help build the APM Restoration Center, has reached an important milestone.

With a donation from AAA lifetime member Jeri Bousum, over half of the available square footage has been spoken and paid for, for a current total of over $35,600.00.

That the "Buy-a-Foot" campaign has reached this goal in a little over eight months in today's economic realities is a testament all our members, their families, AAA chapters, EAA chapters, corporations and foundations and their belief and faith in the APM, it's programs and future. The directors of the APM and I humbly, "Thank You" all.

Though we have yet to start construction, planning and acquisition of materials for this facility continues. The steel trusses for this structure have been acquired and the decking material for the roof is currently being negotiated on. CAD engineering and construction drawings are currently being prepared. We have begun discussions with a well known manufacturer of hangar doors as to the possibility of using one of their products on this facility. Plus pledges for materials and components, such as cement block, in floor heating tubing, electrical components and alternative power supply sources continue, raising the total of monies (including Jim Miller's seed money) and materials pledged to well over $50,000.00. We look forward to the arrival of spring and the beginning of the actual construction of this facility.

But where do we go from here? Well we hope that by reaching this milestone it will help encourage others to become part of this campaign, to join with us and "get your piece of the rock", as it were. While we realize it will be an uphill effort until every last plot in this structure is spoken and paid for, I would like to point out, to all those who may be considering joining with us in seeing this facility built, that your choice of plots and neighbors has now been reduced by over half :>)

So please consider joining with the likes of Addison Pemberton, Paul Poberezny, Robert Mikesh, Morton Lester, John Seibold, Randy Sohn, Hal Shevers, Lew Shaw, Joe Norris, Susan Dacy, the directors of the AAA and APM and many others in becoming plot owners and neighbors within the APM Restoration Center.

Brent Taylor
APM Treasurer

Doedo Schipper in Longmont, CO forwarded some video:

I just got some footage from the Dutch movie archives. It shows the Netherlands Air Force Bücker Jungmann flying at an airshow in 1938. This is the original aircraft on which we based our Jungmann.