AEHS Newsletter 2020 #3
Compiled by Tom Fey and Tony Ward
Published 1 Sep 2020

The Ford 2020 Meeting to visit the Ford Museum and other sites scheduled for October 6 and 7, 2020, in Dearborn, Michigan has been cancelled. However, from the ashes comes Dearborn 2021 scheduled for October 5 and Wednesday October 6, 2021. We will be based at the same Hilton Doubletree Hotel and hope to visit the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Automotive Hall of Fame, Yankee Air Museum, and any other fun places we can think up. Details will be provided and discussed on the AEHS Message Board under Mini-Gigs and updates in every Newsletter.

Giacinta Bradley Koontz In July AEHS president Kim McCutcheon posted on the forum that our friend and AEHS Member Giacinta Bradley Koontz (Gia) passed away in March. Gia was a well-known aviation historian who spoke and published widely.

The Friends of Gia have organized a Go Fund Me page in order to honor  Gia for her ceaseless work. They are currently working with the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles where the Portal of the Folded Wings is located, to have a bronze plaque placed in Gia’s memory inside the portal where Gia was a director and responsible for it being placed on the National registry of Historic Places.

If you can help, please go to Gia’s Go Fund Me page.

Terry Welshans, AEHS Member and 2014 AEHS Convention presenter, has completed his work on the Wright H3 engine to be used in an original Bristol F.2b fighter. A fuel tank and radiator are currently being fabricated to hopefully allow a first run in the October time frame. A side benefit of this project has been the collection of a 1922 Wright H2 engine complete with log-style manifolds and an ultra-rare Bendix NAV-6 carburetor, which is for sale. Contact Terry via the AEHS Message Board.

Recent Book Releases by AEHS Authors
AEHS President Kim McCutcheon has a new book, American Sleeve-Valve Aircraft Engines, which chronicles the sleeve-valve engine's trail of tears in America. Excellent books on engines are hard to come by, and this one is a deal, available to AEHS Members at a substantial discount.

Paul J Christiansen’s latest book, Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Designs & Studies, reveals the many almost unknown advanced engines that were schemed and proposed by Westinghouse before the company faded from the aviation jet engine industry.

Retired University of Washington Professor and AEHS Member Dr. Reiner Decher’s latest book, Powering the World's Airliners: Engine Developments from the Propeller to the Jet Age, covers the development of airline propulsion from the simple propeller-driven aircraft of the 1920s to the turboprops and turbofans of the modern era.

An Interesting Propeller that Never Worked Out

The Slovenian Pipistrel is the first EASA type-certified electric aircraft in the world. What an age we live in. Video

Videos

A Collection of Engine Starts. Adherence to accepted safety practice is … variable.

From an AEHS website link: The Napier Sabre sleeve valve operation in-situ. Forty-two video seconds saves 1,000 words.

Sounds of the Unique 24-Cylinder Napier Saber

Mach Loop Star Wars Canyon HD Photography

Rolls-Royce Merlin 62 CAD Renderings

Rod Lewis Air Legends’ Pristine de Havilland Mosquito at Oshkosh 2019

Quotes for the Quarter:

“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”
“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” — Stephen Hawking