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Have you noticed that there was a lull inflying activities in August? The weatheris generally hot, hazy and unstable, andmany need a rest after Oshkosh in lateJuly. Also in August, families get busywith a few final days of vacation beforethe start of school. Once the kiddies areback in class and weather patterns shift,we pilots are rewarded with the bestflying season of the year in these­here­parts, Indian Summer!

Look for it to start along the banks of theHaw River when you fly west out of CoxField. In fact, a fun flight is west alongUS­64, then turn north at the Haw Riverand follow it up to Saxapahaw, low andslow of course. The first tinges ofyellow, red and orange are often seen inthe deciduous trees that border thiswinding river, looking like the gildedembroidery on a thick green tapestry. Flyearly on a cool morning and you're likelyto find the narrow Haw valley under athin veil of fog that generally burns offquickly as the sun rises. The Haw wasresponsible for industrialization of ourarea, by the way, as the remnants of astring of small dams and water­drivenmills attest. Since access is difficult bycar or foot, you can see this best byairplane.

September and October are full of flyingevents in the Southeast, and we'll report

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Next Chapter Meetings &Area Events

see eaa111 4.org Calendar Page

Sept 5­9, Triple Tree Aerodrome Fly-In, Woodruff, SC (SC00)

Sept 8th, EAA111 4 YE Rally, Oxford-Henderson, NC (KHNZ)

Sept 15th, Chapter meeting, RayHaas on John Gil lespie Magee Jr.

and High Flight

Sept 22, EAA111 4 YE Rally, RockyMount-Wilson, NC (KRWI)

Oct 4­7, VAA3 Fall Fly-In, Camden,SC (KCDN)

Oct 27, Bi l l Hood Chil i Fly-In, Dover,NC (66NC)

The View from AboveKent Misegades, President EAA111 4

on as many we can. If you attend these,please remember to send me a fewpictures and sentences. Also rememberto fill your empty airplane/car seats withfellow members. A quick email to thelistserver is all you need to form agaggle of appreciative copilots &navigators, most of whom are more thanhappy to share the costs.

The upcoming Triple Tree AerodromeFly­In (September 5th­9th) is the oneevent I look forward to most all year. A7000' X 400' smooth runway, hundredsof colorful and historic aircraft, greatcamping facilities, two fishing ponds anda clear Sandhills stream, workshops,seminars, a fun burn­it­yourself BBQwith live music and dancing ­ it doesn'tget much better folks. As last year, I willhave a small display from Thursday­Sunday for my business near theGazebo, showers and Food Court. Thiswill also be the unofficial EAA1114headquarters where you'll always find aseat in the shade.

Chapter member Steve Johnson willhave a booth next to mine for his

Triple Tree's smooth, 7000' X 400'

runway beckons all Chapter

members to come 'on down to

Woodruff, SC (SC00) from

September 5th-9th.

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aviation­related products, and SAApresident Ed Fisher will be with us there,too. Both Ed and I are holding seminarson Friday afternoon, mine on aviationfuels and Ed's on traditionalhomebuilding (highly recommended!).Get all the details attripletreeaerodrome.com

Frank Gozzo was our speaker for theAugust 18th meeting, one of the best­attended this year. A number of you hadurged our invitation to him following histalk on Personal Electronic Devices(PEDs) at another event earlier this year.Frank, who among his various interestsowns the FlightGest flight school atRDU, did not disappoint. Read abouthim in the next issue of Aerial Pursuits.

We had two young speakers at this samemeeting, Namrata Jumani and SethHolloway. Namrata, whose father DilipJumani is our chapter's Secretary,recently attended the EAA's AirAcademy in Oshkosh, where she learnedbasic homebuilding skills, got a ride in aBell 47 helicopter and took the controlsof a Cessna C162 Skycatcher. Herattendance there was made possible bychapter members Jim and SandyDukeman, Young Eagle FieldRepresentatives and David Williams, ourYE Coordinator. Seth Holloway recentlyattended AirVenture with his father, TalHolloway, a former USMC pilot whoflies the B737 for American Airlines.Seth made the aviation headlinesrecently when the EAA featured him in avideo taking a ride on the organization'sB­17 Aluminum Overcast. What madeSeth's ride special was how he paid for it­ from the proceeds of egg sales from hisfamily's farm near New Hill! Sethdescribed his flight to chapter membersand mentioned that he hopes one day to

attend the US Naval Academy. Tal wasso impressed by what he found at CoxField, he joined the chapter the sameday! He and his two sons, Seth and Reid,plan to build an RV­10 one day, whichwill likely involve their neighbor,EAA1114 co­founder and current FlightAdvisor Cecil Boyd. It is refreshing tosee young people such as NamrataJumani and Seth Holloway asenthusiastic about aviation as most of uswere at their age.

Among a number of visitors at theAugust 18th meeting was a local pilot,Bill Blanton. Bill's accomplishments inthe air are so numerous, that I'd like toshare his recent message to me with theentire chapter: "I was a Navigator in the397th Bomb Sq (6th Bomb Group) in1945­46 at Rio Hato, Panama which hadB­24s at first, and when the war wasover the squadron converted to B­17Gswhich were still coming off the assemblylines. The Group had aircraft at Talara,Peru, Galapagos Island, Ecuador, andPanama. The mission was to protect thePanama Canal. Area of Operation wasfrom Puerto Rico (Atlantic) to

Galapagos Islands in the Pacific. I wentthru pilot's school in 1948 (T­6s & B­25s) and specialized in tactical airliftoperations until I retired in 1966. I willbe 87 in October and a new member inthe chapter. Incidentally, I had my firstflight in a biplane in 1929, inLumberton, NC, and 10 hours in a J­3Cub in 1944 at Danville, Ky. I no longerfly actively due to age and sight, but waspilot qualified in the T­6, B­25, B­26, C­45, C­46, C­82, C­119, C­130A & B,and CG­15 Gliders. I was Navigatorqualified in T­7, C­47, C­54, C­82, B­24and B­17s."

During our meeting, Bill described how,as a young pilot flying the Waco CG­15troop glider, he'd be snatched from theCamp Mackall airfield by a passing C­47before being released above one of thenearby drop zones. According to theNational WWII Glider PilotsAssociation's web site, "A glider snatchwas accomplished by a C­47 tow planeflying just above ground level with ahook trailing behind from a cable thatplayed out from a revolving drum in itsfuselage. The hook snagged a glider

EAA1114's next generation of pilots impressed members at the Augustmeeting. Left: Namrata Jumani describes her recent stay at EAA AirAcademy which included left­seat time in a C162. Right: Seth Hollowayexplained how he saved income from selling eggs to fly on a B­17during AirVenture this summer.

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towrope suspended between two verticalpoles sweeping it airborne behind thetow plane from a dead standstill to 120mph in a matter of 7 seconds." Thiswas surely a Southern invention, withthe snatch being accompanied by a loud"Yee­Haw" from the glider's pilot!

Rita Mercer sends the followinginformation about an upcoming golftournament on Thursday, October 4th atthe Sanford Golf Course: "Denny's andmy amazing little church, EbenezerUnited Methodist Church, is sponsoringa Golf Tournament in Loving Memoryof Denny to benefit the RonaldMcDonald House in Chapel Hill. Asmuch as Denny was a important part inthe lives of so many of you before hispassing, it is wonderful to know that hewill still play a significant role in thelives of others." The deadline forregistration is September 25th. For moreinformation, contact Kim Powell in NewHill, NC, at 919­362­4398.

Our final Young Eagle rallies will beheld on September 8th at Oxford­Henderson (KHNZ) and on September22nd at the Rocky Mount ­ WilsonRegional Airport (KRWI). Our YECoordinator David Williams needs morepilots and volunteers to help at these lasttwo events. If you have not helped thisyear, please consider doing this. Chapter

member and EAA506 president JoeMancusi has requested help at the annualJohnston County Airport Open Houseand Young Eagle Rally, taking place thisyear on Saturday, September 29th. As inpast years, KJNX offers a nice fueldiscount to all YE pilots. If you have nothelped at a rally this year, why not makeit a point to help David Williams on the8th and the 22nd and Joe Mancusi on the29th?

I will have to miss the September 15thmeeting ­ for the past year, I have beenworking with a few distant relatives toorganize the first­ever Misegadesreunion, which takes place on September14­16. Although the Misegades'ancestral homes are Alton, IL andCoffeyville, KS, the highestconcentration of people with our strangename is in the state of North Carolina,purely by coincidence! Our familyoriginates from the Bremen andHannover area of Germany, with ourancester Hinrich Friedrich WilhelmMysegades (Henry Fred) arriving inNew York on December 13th, 1844 andquickly changing the spelling fromMysegades to Misegades (equallyconfusing, nice going, Henry Fred...).The first American­born Misegades fromour line, my ancestor John Henry, wasborn the following year in Cold Spring,NY, just across the Hudson River from

West Point. Henry Fred wisely movedthe family to the South as quickly as hecould, but not quite far south enough, asfather and son ended up fighting for thewrong side during the War of NorthernAggression. Holding the first reunion inmodern times south of the Mason­DixonLine will hopefully negate thisembarrassment from our past. The literaltranslation of our old, pre­Germanicname is 'Swamp Goose'. Don't laugh ­this has to do with the wetlands in thisregion of Europe that have long sincebeen drained and cultivated. In case youwere wondering, we pronounce the nameMyz­Gaydz, although the correctGerman pronunciation is Meez­Eh­Gah­Dayz, go figure....

At some point, one of the moresuccessful Misegades (a wine merchantfrom Bremen named Timo Miesegaes ­there are over 40 variations in thespelling of our name) wanted a noblercreature on the family crest, so hesubstituted an elegant white swan in theplace of three mangy­looking geese.Whether I have earned the same respectis open to debate, but this is oneexplanation for the aviation interestsamong my relatives. These include agreat uncle who worked at the FunkAircraft company in Coffeyville,Kansas, a father who was an engineer forDouglas Aircraft and North American

At the August meeting, former Waco CG­15 gliderpilot and new chapter member Bill Blanton describedbeing snatched off the ground by a DC­3 at CampMackall. Once the DC­3 had hooked a towline strungacross two polee=s, the CG­15 accelerated from astandstill to 120 mph in only seven seconds! Bill flewmany aircraft during his long career, including the T­6,AT­7, B­17, B­24, B­25, B­26, C­45, C­46, C­54, C­82, C­119, C­130A & B. Welcome to EAA1114, Mr. Blanton!

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Aviation in SoCal, my own modestcontributions to aviation, and two A&Psons. The most famous of our aviation­minded distant relatives though was theDutch millionaire and pilot StanleyAugust "Stan" Miesegaes, originalfinancier of the band Supertramp. Rockon!

The Fall lineup of meetings and areaevents provides plenty of weekenddiversions:

Sept. 5­9 ­ Triple Tree Aerodrome(SC00) Fly­In, 'Rockford' of the South.

Sept. 8th ­ Young Eagle rally at Oxford­Henderson (KHNZ).

Sept. 18th ­ Chapter meeting featuringRay Haas of High Flight Productions,Wilson, NC, on the life and time of JameGillespie Magee Jr., WWII Spitfire pilot& poet.

Sept. 22nd ­ Young Eagle rally at theRocky Mount­Wilson Regional Airport(KRWI).

Sept. 29th ­ Johnston County Airport(KJNX) Open House and YE rally.

Oct. 4­7 ­ Carolinas­Virginia AntiqueAirplane Foundation Fall Vintage Fly­In,Camden, SC (KCDN).

Oct. 27th ­ Bill Hood's Chili Fly­In,Dover, NC (66NC).

Nov. 17th ­ Chapter meeting featuringHal Bowman, 1000 hour pilot in themighty Boeing B­47 Stratojet.

Dec. 15th ­ Chapter meeting featuringchapter member Paul Franzon on FlyingDown Under (Australia).

I hope to soon confirm a homebuilding­related speaker for our October 20thmeeting. In addition, our Augustspeaker, Frank Gozzo of FlightGest, hasoffered to organize an open house at hisflight school at RDU, once his newRedbird simulator is installed andrunning towards the end of September.Having flown these at Oshkosh this yearand more recently at the Lenoir CountyCommunity College's Aviation Center, Iam sure you'll not want to miss this localfield trip.

Make sure you attend the September18th meeting, when our speaker will beRay Haas, owner of High FlightProductions or Wilson, NC. The title ofhis talk is "High Flight and JohnGillespie Magee, Jr.", a summary ofRay's 20­year research into the life andtimes of this WWII pilot who authoredof one of the best­known poemsregarding flying.

Aim High and Fly SafeKent

Attend the September 15thmeeting to learn about the life ofJohn Gillespie Mageee, Jr. authorof "High Flight"

A surprise visitor to Cox Field at the August meetingwas Bob Barrows in his new Bearhawk LSA.

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Chapter member Roger Fowler kindlysent us this report from this year'sRegion V South soaring contest inCordele, southern Georgia. [ed]

The first practice day was very windyand the wind tore the thermals apart. Noone went very far and no one enjoyedthe day. But it was good seeing oldfriends again and making new friends.

The second practice day was a goodsoaring day and the contest directorcalled a suitable task. I got boggeddown in the first turnpoint and blowndownwind while I was struggling toclimb back up. It took a really long timeto fly upwind to the second turnpointbecause the wind was blowing mebackward during the slow climbs inweak thermals. But eventually I did getup and just "nicked" the next threeturnpoints because of all the time I spenton the second leg. I finished in themiddle of the pack, mostly because somany people did not want to land out on

a practice day and flew back to theairport without finishing the task. Oneof the Harnett pilots landed about 5miles short of the airport, so we wentand got him and made it to the welcomedinner on time.

Then it rained. For days. We tried to geta contest day in for four daysunsuccessfully. We assembled thegliders, then put them away again. Weheld onto them as a thunderstorm blewacross the airport. We took them out ofthe trailers to dry because they were stillwet from the day before. We went to themovies. And there were a few poolparties.

On the fifth day it looked like theweather might cooperate so we put thegliders on the grid. And it turned out tobe a great day. I went around the courseat a surprising speed. All the cloudsworked and I never stopped andstruggled. On the next to the last leg I

Region V South (Cordele, GA) Soaring Contest 2012Roger Fowler, President, NC Soaring Association

was concerned that I might not havegone deep enough into the turnpointsand would arrive under the minimumtime. At 4000' I "bumped through" a600 fpm thermal and decided I wouldstop at the next cloud, which looked justas good. And the next cloud did notwork. Nor did anything else I couldfind. In a few minutes I was sitting in apeanut field. It turns out the farmer wasa former crop duster, so we had aninteresting conversation. I then calledthe retrieve crew to give them directionsand went and sat by the road until theyarrived.

The sixth and last day the "sniffers"could not stay up and the overcast keptgetting lower. So everyone packed upand headed home. Unfortunately it takestwo flying days to make a contest, so theRegion V South contest was declared notto be a "contest." No points, nomedallions, just the expenses. But still agood time. And those are still my besttwo flights of 2012.

Roger Fowler

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The brief mention in the last issue ofAerial Pursuits of this award­winningairplane and the team of local buildersthat created it did not do their workjustice, so we asked Bob to provide somemore details. [ed]

We are going to finish up the Cub andtake it back for another try next year.Meanwhile, I have a PA16, a Clipper, inthe hangar to restore next. It is alreadyuncovered and ready to go to the blaster.

Tim Farris and Jeff Rich will take thelead on that one too. They have anoutstanding record: One Best Cub at

Lock Haven, one Best workmanship atLock Haven, one Reserve Champion atLock Haven (all in three successiveyears with J­3's); and the Outstanding J­3 at Oshkosh in the 75th anniversaryyear when there must have been 200Cubs there, all of the best in the land.

Jeff is a neighbor/friend A&P­IA whoowns a Stearman and a Cub, flies themout of Burlington, (and Kimrey Field),and works in the daytime for Marvin­Schebler in Gibsonville; he is acarbeurator genius. He is themastermind of the projects, while Tim isthe artistic genius behind covering and

painting. They both know Piper'soriginal drawings nearly by heart. In myopinion, they are the best Cub restorersin the country (yes, the U.S.A.), as theirBest Cub awards from Lock Haven, andnow from OSH, establish.

Our shop is in the main hangar atKimrey Airfiled, 7NC6, a privatelyowned (owner's permission use) grassfield just south of Mebane, NC. I amthinking the chapter might want to do afly­out to Kimrey after on of its fallmeetings, to tour the shop and see whatwe are doing. I am pretty proud of ourshop, and especially for their skill andart.

Bob Epting

Bob Epting's Award­Winning Cub from EAAAirVenture 2012

Clockwise from left: Bob accepts his award in

the Vintage Aircraft building during AirVenture.

Epting next to his J-3, the Best of the Best in a

sea of yellow Cubs. With the daughter of the

aircraft's original owner, who happened by as

the judges were placing the award placard on

the airplane's propeller.

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Congratulations to Jim and SandyDukeman on the completion of a majormilestone in the restoration of theirPiper PA­12 Super Cruiser. OnThursday, August 23rd, with the help offriends the plane emerged from theDukeman Skunk Works in Apex and wastransported to the final assemblybuildings at the Sanford­Lee CountyAirport (KTTA). As Jim puts it:

To all my friends and folks that havehelped over the years work on the PA­12. Major progress has been made,tomorrow August 23rd, 2012 I will (withsome help of course) move the fuselageand wings from the hangar behind thehouse to Sanford Airport. It has been 16years since it rested on all three wheels

with a cover on it. And it is ready to go.I will put the wings on this Saturday,then the windshield, and tail feathers. Istill need to make the baffles for theengine, then install the cowling and propand see if it all works. Which I am sureit will, thanks to all who have helped thisfar, hope to give everyone a chance tofly it by summer of next year. All bugs,and warmer weather will prevail then.Sorry I don't have pictures, but will takesome tomorrow with it on the trailer andagain in the hangar at Sanford. Shouldhave plenty of help tomorrow loading,our boys Jeff and Bill, (Bill will bringthe trailer and have the honor of pullingit to Sanford) Skip and Gray and me.That should be more than enough to getthe job done without breakingsomething. I may not sleep tonight.

Jim Dukeman

The editor's good friend, Thomas Stutefrom Lake Constance, Germany, sent afew pictures from a vintage aircraft fly­in he attended in Belgium, flying their inhis rare Klemm 107C.

Dukeman PA­12 SuperCruiser Emerges

Clockwise from top left: Fuselage in the shop where it has

resided for 1 6 years. Emerging from the shop with Jim pull ing and

Skip guiding the tai l . Fuselage loaded on the trai ler and ready for

the trip to KTTA. A happy family: Bi l l , Sandy, Jim and Jeff

Dukeman in the new hangar.

Vintage Europevia Thomas Stute

Top to bottom: Jodel Bebe,

SAAB 91 Safir, Stolp

Starduster Too, Stampe &

Jodel, Tipsy Nipper, Thomas

Stute & his Klemm 1 07C.

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Copyright 201 2 by EAA Chapter 111 4. Aerial Pursuits is the official newsletter of EAA Chapter 111 4, which meets on

the third Saturday of each month at Cox Field (NC81 ), Apex, NC. Aerial Pursuits is sent to al l active chapter membersvia electronic transmission or mail , depending on preference. Issues are posted in the Newsletter page of the chapter's

web site, www.eaa111 4.org. Membership rate is $30 annually, paid to the Treasurer according to instructions provided in

the Join/Renew page at www.eaa111 4.org. Newsletter contributions are welcome and should be sent to the Chapter

President, Kent Misegades, 204 Parkmeadow Dr. , Cary, NC 2751 9, kmisegades@bellsouth.net, 91 9-303-8230.

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RVs to the DesertKen Krueger

One of the nicest aircraft designers you'll meet is Ken Krueger, who recently left Van'sAircraft after a long stint as its chief engineer. He's now working on a new design that Iam sure will be impressive. Ken, who has become a friend of the editor's, sent me thisrecent note and pictures after I mentioned Bob Barrows' new Bearhawk LSA. [ed]

The Bearhawk LSA looks great! As long as it is available in a "reasonably good" kit, myexpectation is that the market is going to love it. I'm also encouraged by the fact that itrepresents something more in line with the intent of the Light Sport Category. Some of myRV pilot friends and I recently made a trip to the Alvord desert (in south eastern Oregon)for an overnight camping trip. It is the sort of place that is ideal for the Bearhawk(although completely satisfactory for any RV). Attached are a couple of photos. Myairplane is the natural aluminum RV­4. The checkerboard tail RV­6 belongs to Van'semployee Joe Blank and the two RV­8's belong to local guys...one is a dentist and anotheris a geologist. Ken Krueger

Above: a gaggle of RVs from the Portland area

in the Alvord Desert of SE Oregon. Left: Ken

Krueger, shown here receiving the 201 0 Dr.

August Raspet Memorial Award for his

"outstanding contribution to the advancement of

l ight aircraft design." Ken may pay our chapter a

visit in the near future. . . .stay tuned.