Miss Pgh Retrieval Photos Found

PHOTOS FOUND IN THE BOB ZORN COLLECTION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGHAvtn1rD0&context=C3140d95ADOEgsToPDskKpAXoMqPrZlH_1N2rNNhTb

Flora Balmer

Flora Balmer

Robert F Zilinsky

Zilinsky Letter

2012 Leadership Team

Dennis G Yerkey Dennis G Yerkey, President Dennis Yerkey has served as OX5 President since Sept 23 ,2010.   Mr. Yerkey is a licensed, instrument-rated pilot who has been flying since 1962.  From 1965 through 2005 Mr Yerkey was a principal in Motor Supply Co Inc, an independent auto parts distribution corporation located in Western Pennsylvania.  Yerkey graduated from Monongahela High School and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pa. Thomas J Barruso Thomas J Barruso, Chief Accounting Officer / Treasurer As Chief Accounting Officer, Mr. Barruso reports directly to President Yerkey and leads the Organization’ s Accounting department.  He is responsible for all accounting functions, record-keeping and communicating the financial performance of the company. He also serves in a strategic capacity, working closely with the other Officers to grow the Organization.  Prior to assuming the Treasurer’s job, Mr. Barruso retired from PNC Bank N.A. as Vice President and Trust Officer in the personal a investment management of the Trust Division in Pittsburgh, PA.  Mr. Barruso earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Robert Morris College.  Also, he attended Bucknell University Trust Training School and earned certification from The American Business Consultants Advanced Management program and the Financial Management and Control for Small Business. Ivan D. Livi, Sec Ivan D Livi,  Corporate Secretary / Public Relations Officer As Corporate Secetary, Ivan D Livi is a senior officer with wide-ranging responsibilities.  He serves as a focal point for communication with and between the Board of Directors, Officers and members.  He has a key role in the administration of the Board and critical Club matters. The Corporate Secretary reports to and is a confidante and consigliere to the President.  He also informs and advises the Board and Governors in decision making matters.  Prior to assuming this position, Livi served  as President/Director of the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, the position from which he retired in 1993 after a long and distinguished career. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Phi Eta Sigma and Iota Lambda Sigma – University of Pittsburgh Federal Aviation Administration  Award of Excellence Italian Heritage Society Educator of the Year Award Aero Club of Pittsburgh Clifford Ball Award Professional Aviation Maintenance Association Award of Excellence Professional Aviation Maintenance Association Award of Recognition OX5 Aviation Pioneers President’s Award & Hall of Fame Award Federal Aviation Administration “Charles Taylor Master Mechanic” Award The Aviation Technician Education Council’s “Educator of the Year” Award was renamed “The Ivan D. Livi Aviation Maintenance Educator of the Year Award” in April 1994 Federal Aviation Administrators Championship Award Allegheny County Airport Association ” Aviation  Person of the Year” Award

Wanna Build an Airplane ?

This article was written by builder Harry Bochter OX5 ID 22595

It was published in the

Neighborhood Gazette of Pittsburgh

Cliff Ball Wing Newsletter

OX5 National Newsletter

Finleyville Flyer – Pittsburgh, PA   Cliff Ball Wing  OX5 Aviation Pioneers

WANNA BUILD AN AIRPLANE?

Forward By Ivan Livi

Harry Bochter, Cliff Ball Wing member ID 22595 of the OX5 Aviation Pioneers, has been building or rebuilding airplanes for almost two decades. Read about his early interest and later experience that extends to the present day.

The OX5 Aviations Pioneers is a nation-wide organization of early aviators, mechanics, and people who are interested in the preservation of aviation history. The Cliff Ball Wing is the original Wing that founded the OX5 Club in Latrobe, Pa in 1955.  Wing meetings are held in the facilities of the West Mifflin Borough Building located on Lebanon Church Road across from the Allegheny County Airport.  Anyone with an interest in aviation is welcome to attend the meetings. The OX5 organization is made up of sixteen active Wings located in all parts of the country.  At it’s peak, OX5 numbered more than 4,000 members.

 Harry’s Story about building airplanes.

My interest in aviation started in 1957 at age 11.  An issue of Air Progress Magazine caught my eye.  In it was an article on homebuilt airplanes around the world.  The high wing Parasol open cockpit planes such as the Pietenpol Aircamper, Sky Scout, and Baby Ace were the most interesting.   They all had that antique yet practical look.  The Aircamper and Scout were all-wood construction, using the DeHavilland method consisting of spruce stringers and plywood gussets pioneered in World War I in airplanes such as the DH-4.  These were widely used in the US for air mail service.

Now spring ahead to about 2002.  I was asked by a friend to help rebuild a DeHavilland Moth Minor.  It is a 1937 all-wood, low wing, open cockpit airplane that was extensively damaged when its wooden propeller disintegrated in flight and the airplane was damaged in a forced landing.  For my first job, I was handed a plastic garbage bag full of bits and pieces of what used to be a pair of plywood and spruce landing gear fairings.  I duct taped all the pieces together and reverse engineered two new fairings.  I discovered working on wooden airplanes was fun. Six months and much work later, the Moth Minor flew and now resides in a small museum on Nemacolin Airport.

After this project, I salvaged the wing spars from a 1940 Stearman bi-plane consisting of eight beautiful aircraft grade pieces of spruce nearly 13 feet long. With this material, I decided to build a Roger Mann design all-wood ultra light Parasol.  The lumber was planned and ripped into ¾ inch by ¾ inch longerons for the fuselage and wing spars.  A work table and jigs were made and months of enjoyable labor followed. Nothing about the project is terribly difficult.  Patience and planning are the keys to building an airplane.  Make sure that you tell your friends what you are doing.  I received donated materials such as dope, fabric, reinforcing tapes, hardware, and a set of plans for a 1930 Heath Parasol.  As the project neared the fabric covering stage, the airplane took on the appearance of a three-dimensional puzzle.  At present, the fabric is going on and I welcome all to stop in and see the project. It is located at Finleyville Airport… south of Pittsburgh.  If you want to contact me, feel free to call me on my cell phone

412.523.2169.    Harry Bochter

B17 Aluminum Overcast

Link to great photos of  B17 Aluminum Overcast by Bernard Zee.

http://home.comcast.net/~szee1a/Al_overcast/Al_overcast.html

From George Tittinger

A Note From George Tittinger

ID 13599    Southern California Wing  1-24-1915

Note from Robert A Clark

From Robert A Clark  ID 22408  Texas Wing

Soyuz to Shuttle Space Station Tour

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=H8rHarp1GEE

From Geo Vose, Secretary Texas Wing

The membership of the Texas Wing is spread over a large geographic area.  Unlike some other Wings, we are not limited to a single population area because some of our members live more than 600 miles from each other.  So our quarterly Texas Wing Newsletter is helpful in bringing more than 100 members together.  This summer we held a meeting in Ranger in central Texas at the time of their annual air show.  Some members traveled over 800 round trip miles by road and air to attend.  It was good that all five Wing Governors were able to attend the 2011 summer meeting.  We look forward to another Wing reunion for elections, business purposes and fellowship.  The selected site of our next meeting will be announced in the OX5 News.      George Vose, Secretary.

From Gov. Jim Beisner, ID 20517

Florida Monday November 14, 2011  4:00 PM

From:  Jim Beisner

To:  Pgh HQ

Dean Tilton has been working on the OX5 engine and is doing beautiful work!  It looks great!

We invited some young people and their parents in to build paper rockets.  All were successful!  We may have had 100.

This was in conjunction with ‘Wings-n-Things’ at Sun-n-Fun! lots of fun and sun!

Jim B.

A Letter From Robert Zilinsky ID 21174

From Bob Zilinsky

From Gov. Jim Beisner, ID 20517

11-10-2011

To OX5 HQ,

A great time was had by all at the recent Midwest Fla Wing meeting.

Articles to follow.

I also want to report that the rebuilding of OX5 engines by the Florida and Wisconsin Wings is moving along rather well.

All is great here and hope the same for you fellows up North !

Jim Beisner

Florida OX5 Engine-Tilton & Beisner

THE DYNAMIC DUO

Jim Beisner, Nat Gov, has informed me that Dean Tilton of the Midwest Florida Wing is in the process of rebuilding the OX5 engine that was once on static display in their Lakeland Florida clubhouse.

They intend to run the engine at Sun-n-Fun as an educational display for the many thousands who attend the Airshow.  The running OX5 engine should create much interest and garner a lot of free press, which is good for our organization.

Dean Tilton (91) has been working on the engine for several months and will soon be assisted by Jim Beisner when he heads South for the Winter.  DGY

Dean Tilton with a 1918 OX5 Engine that he rebuilt.

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56th Reunion Recap by Ivan Livi, Sec

56th REUNION AT HAMMONDSPORT, NY

The 56^th Annual Reunion was a huge success with the largest attendance in recent years.  The thanks of the Officers and Governors go to the Glenn Curtiss Wing for serving as the host and to all those who assisted and attended the reunion.  Now, we are looking forward to next year.

Ivan D. Livi   National Secretary

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There was crowd anticipation,…..silence, then a whirring sound followed by several short popping noises followed by the bellow of a ninety horse powered engine speaking through short exhaust stacks.  This was accompanied by the smooth, consistent roar of the whirling propeller.  There seemed to be a crowd exhale of exhilaration as the OX5 engine performed like a present day, high technology machine.

The running of the Curtiss OX5 engine was one of the highlights of the 56^th Annual Reunion held at the Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, N.Y.  The Curtiss OX5 engine was used in training airplanes during World War I.   In the postwar period, its availability in quantity at low war surplus prices led to its adoption by many US manufacturers for their two- and three-place aircraft.  The Laird Swallow was probably the first of these designs. There were more than twenty airplanes powered by the OX5 engine.  Among them were the Curtiss Robin, Travel Air 2000, Waco 9 and 10, American Eagle, Alexander Eaglerock, Pitcairn PA-4, and others.

The crowd of approximately sixty people watched the OX5 running exhibition outside of the facility of the Curtis Museum located in the rural area between Bath and Hammondsport, N.Y.  The museum is a landmark of aviation history and has a magnificent collection of historical aircraft.  Its restoration shop, under the supervision of Wing President Norman Brush, overhauls and rebuilds airplanes and engines.  (See pictures in the following white side bar post)

A second highlight was the bus trip to the Corning Museum of Glass to see all forms of beautifully crafted glass articles and the methods used to manufacture them including the art of glass blowing.

The final highlight of the reunion was the Awards Ceremony Presentations. This was held during the banquet on the last evening of the reunion. The presentation of the awards was conducted by Secretary Ivan Livi, in the absence of Awards Chairman Harold Walter, and assisted by President Dennis Yerkey. The awards presented were:

Hall of Fame Award – Thomas E. Hendershot

Legion of Merit Award – Alan “Doug” Moler

Wing President Award – Norman Brush

Clifford Ball Memorial Award – Kansas Wing

Thomas Barruso – Presidential Citation

Patricia Griswold – Presidential Citation

Wayne Gordon – Presidential Citation

Michael Lawernce – Presidential Citation

Sylvia Cook – Presidential Citation

Evelyn Latorre – Presidential Citation

Keith Krewson – Early Bird Award

From Cheryl Dewey, Wis Gov

Pilots-Watch this

From Keith Krewson, Gov 2012

Rough weather carrier landings.

Guaranteed to make your heart rate jump.

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=4gGMI8d3vLs

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=S0yj70QbBzg

Hendershot-Hall of Fame

Thomas Hendershot- Ivan D Livi, Presenter

Thomas Hendershot-2011 Hall of Fame Awardee

Click on photo to enlarge.

Norm Brush operates an OX5 engine

Watch an OX5 engine

Hey Norm.  Comb your hair !

Letter From D. Rippeteau L-8845

Aug 21, 2011

A Letter from Darrel Downing Rippeteau, 94  (L 8845 45 years) to  Ivan D. Livi, 92,  2012 National Sec-OX5 Aviation Pioneers.

Darrel Downing Rippeteau

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