The last line four Shimmys P-51D display US Air Force Museum Wright-Patterson Air Force Base OH painted colors 325th Fighter Group Italy 1944 has Colonel Dutch Sluters personal logo Shimmy IV emblazoned side nostalgic look back career friend extraordi nary times people machines intertwined life IT WAS ONE beautiful spring days San Antonio fluffy cumulocir rus clouds scattered like cotton balls in tensely blue sky Seen through eyes 11-year-old sky green lawn made perfect setting colorful dresses floppy hats mothers girlfriends young pilots just graduated As guests made pleasant small talk chatted another cadets dis appeared beyond somber hangars shielded aircraft view young boy listened rumbling explosions aircraft engines came life imagination could see wheel taxi down apron runway angled off toward Duncan Field couple miles distant age 11 easy enough imagine myself stern54 Model Aviation Left Dutch Sluder January 1933 age 18 standing front Waco 10 hed just soloed managed solo just unde two months less eight hours flight time under skillful instruction Don McDonnell Right Shown plane Dutch soloed thats special place heart ever sincethe OX-S-powered Waco 10 photograph taken Austin TX 1933 visaged warriors shoving up goggles gloved hand casting quick glance sky making sure no Fokker Pfalz aircraft peeling out formation strafe helpless aircraft taking off aerodrome below As rumbling voices engines changed roar casual talk ceased Everyone watched sky over hangars first glimpse sons friends sweethearts pulled goggles down over oilstreaked face jammed throttle wide open swift movement As ma chine roared down runway could feel mounting pressure stick wheels lifted off. Junior arent looking right di rection Renee shaking shoulder going miss seeing Dutch fly Back real world saw air planes appear over hangars Instead Spads Camels Bristols Handley Pages Curtiss P-i Boeing P 12 pursuits Curtiss A-3 Attacks ThomasMorse 0-19 Douglas 0-25 observation craft Keystone bombers B-3 through B-6 completed parade yes production line changing almost weekly time didnt know Keystone Dutch looked bombers thought looking tie biggest airplane world would ever see beautiful spring commencement day June 1936 JT Jake Sluder lovely wife Renee thought looked like popular movie star period friends family Theyd invited graduation JT s brother Dutch Air Corps Advanced Flying School Kelly Field TX pilots still rank cadet graduation becom ing second lieutenants about year About year later policy changed graduating cadets immediately became lieu tenants Dutch very busy young man prior landmark day attended Texas University before entering Air Corps having learned fly years before working Stinson Field during summer given Fokker D-7 SE5 both small solid models large 24-in solid pine Curtiss P-i models magnificent age could see difference between good poor craftsmanship addition Dutch provided lot photos still retain inter ested Real Thing now Yes indeed Dutch got started early Real Thing late 1932 tender age 18 began flying lessons OX-S-powered Waco 10 Austin TX home Texas University soloed little under two months less eight hours under skillful instruction Don McDonell university demanded lot Dutchs time effort relatively short time solo indicated sharp wellorganized student excellent instructor what probably case combina tion both During time Dutch would quit eating until saved four dollarswhich thirty minutes flying time Waco walk out airport fly catch ride back campus Hed repeat whole program following week Thats perserverance April 1933 Dutch acquired 10 hours necessary rate solo license #28874 23rd June 1933 obtained private license San Antonio took up first pas senger Travelaire E-4000 owned Dick Hair passenger mother course Thats sterling example mothers faith son Waco 10 quite machine absolutely minimal instrumentation air speed estimated pitch loud ness flying wires reacted slipstream instruments altimeter water temperature/oil temperaApril 1990 55 Dutchs friend mentor Marion P Dick Hair standing front Stinson 1935 time Dick operated flying service Stinson Field serving San Antonio days learned fly Wright Model B 1916 instructor Katherine Stinson 1935 Dutch became Army Air Corps ca det Randolph Field TX photo Dutch Sluder flying suit chute front Boeing PT-li taken June 1935 Upperclassman Dutch Sluder mother Mrs JT Sluder Randolph Field fall 1935 Dutch got pri vate license 1933 mother became first passenger going up him Tray elaire E-4000 owned friend Dick Hair Newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dutch Sluder Langley Field VA June 1937 Hes standing front Curtiss P-6E tached 35th Pursuit Squadron 8th Pur suit Group transferred after doing stint B-la bombers Mitchell Field NY Three Dutchs favorite prewar pursuit ships logged hours planes first Langley Field VA later instructor Kelly Field TX flying aviation greats such aerobatics master Joe Mackey Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA Armys U first combat ace World War II Wagner killed 1943 Florida engine P-40N quit takeoff Above left Curtiss P-i photographed Dutch Kelly Field Above right US Air Force photo Curtiss P-6E Below US Air Force photo Boeing P-12 ture gauges tachometer pretty sleek biplane OX-S engine cowled very neatly no wind screen rear cockpit Dutch says because student rode rear seat lack windscreen permitted him feel slipstream change during slips skids imagine its absence also al lowed instructor make ferocious grim aces rear-seat student goofed Dutchs comment Shortly after first soloed Dutch JT heard some BuhI Pups available Houston new list price around $1300 JT went Houston bought two total $900 pair logged total flying time 15 minutes during de pression no money kind thing friend Texas University Shelby Kritser Amarillo TX bought Pups NC-394Y Sluders kept NC-393Y later years Krister publish Amarillo Globe-Times come owner-operator Tradewinds Airport west Texas town fatally crashed 1966 flying F8F Bearcat air show Al Tuerpe Stinson Field Aer onca C-3 wanted fly Pup Sluders made deal would swap flying time Pup Tuerpes teaching JT fly C-3 plus cost gas trainer JT spent about 10 dollars learning solo Pup truly gentle lady would spin re cover very nicely spin nor mal allowing airplane lose con siderable altitude just turn two Due low-powered Szekely en gine 45 hp other aerobatics within planes capabilities preplanned build up speed As sidelight Dutchs present-day neigh bor Hungarian escaped country 1957 told him correct pronunciation Szekely Say-kai gentleman Dr Derek Pasternak chief medicine Lovelace Clinic Albu querque NM founder clinic Randy Lovelace conducted consid erable research Air Force highaltitude flight died plane crash several years ago Mrs Lovelace fly ing passengers out Aspen CO under marginal weather conditions Flying VFR visual flight rules turned up blind canyon crashed mountainside no survivors characteristic Pup could have better Dutch remembers plane insufficient rudder area performing steep slips intrepid ne Domoers mat uutcn tiew Mitchell Field NY originally volunteered bombers reasoning such experience would easily transfer commercial aviation depression still being felt growing conflict Europe wasnt yet taken seriously left Keystone B-5A B-6A right USAF photo Martin B-b first truly modern metal bombers go service 56 Model Aviation young men liked sideslip sharp angle across fence Stinson Field boun dary kicking rudder dropping three-point landingreal hot shot stuff impress local observers Dutch hastened point out also great way checking landing path avoid hitting Texas jackrabbits indige nous Stinson Field boys noted craft wired lights option installed again depression mea sure bought set lights along couple Model T dashlights il luminate four instruments just Waco 10 hooked Hot Shot battery tiny luggage compartment hind cockpit evening Septem ber 7 1933 two brothers went out Stinson neat Marquette Coupe check out new modification think such auspicious undertaking 19year-old about 60 hours flight time should have date recorded Despite younger years Dutch logged flying hours JT brothers agreed let him take Pup skies first night flight Since too expensive use floodlights Dutch IT prearranged air port manager airport boundary lights would turned Dutch took off dusk remembers watching lights come cruised over San Antonio gath ering twilight city glowing like jewel box beneath him Returning Stinson bold young avi ator began shooting landings guessing ground trying make three-pointers As approached first landing Dutch wished asked mentor Dick Hair some pointers Dick would have told him forget probably feel ground throttle did anyway evening went well two returned next night practice landings Pup lived showed Someone looking out daring young men flying ma chine Marion P Dick Hair operated flying service Stinson Field air port serving San Antonio days Dutch met Dick attending high school Texas Military Academy Almost weekend Dutch classmate would go out Stinson hang around Hairs air craft sometimes finding dollar 10minute ride buddy Dave Hill inciden tally dead shot rubberband spitballs would sit back classroom nail kids front row Perhaps teachers chastised him will feel better learn marks manship paid off later years Dave came Colonel Tex Hill second-ranking combat ace AVG American Volun teer Group Flying Tigers 18-plus vic tories Dick number aircraft including Travelaire E-4000 taught fly Katharine Stinson 1916 Wright Model B return being line boy prepping aircraft washing down flying passengers Dick allowed Dutch han gar space Pup let him build up time Hair aircraft After Dutch got private commer cial licenses putting nearly spare time Dick Hair friend stalled out Pup about 100 ft Dutchs plane out commission flying time harder come 1935 Dutch applied received appointment cadet Randolph Field entered Army Air Corps June ended problem finding time fly About same time something else happened affect course career Woodlawn Lake recreation area lo cated few miles downtown San Anto nio about two miles home matter fact Dutch took time away Stinson Field Ill bet broke went swim Woodlawn Pool cool off Instead met lovely Miss Zimmerman shortly began dat ing As Dutch put time money short supply typical date con sisted What flavor Coke want free movies Breckenridge Park Dutch married Zimmy Galveston three years later story getting ahead cue April 1990 57 Left Spring 1944 Lesina ItalyDutch commander 325th Fighter Group seen sitting cockpit P-47D-16 crew chief S/Sgt Luke Misen heimer Tampa FL Above Dutchs Thunderbolt Shimmy II photographed Lesina Italy 1944 Below Dutch posing battle-weary Jug Note Nazi kill symbol left Dutchs P-SiB Shimmy III photographed Lesina summer 1944 aircraft led 325ths mission Russia June 2-11 1944 Note long-range auxiliary fuel tanks new cadets placed Stage primary training cadets divided four groups Flight through Flight D first three flights equipped Consolidated PT-3 Flight D newer PT-i iD PT-il D brakes instrument panel switches instruments neatly ar ranged PT-3 instruments haphazardly mounted cabanes no brakes sophisticated air plane considered easy fly Dutch assigned Flight D came known push-button pi lots' Dutch made no secret holding Limited Commercial License No 28874 cant imagine having behaved like James Cagney Captains Clouds other hand After completing ground school Dutch three half-hour sessions dual instruc tion PT-i LD Shortly after last ses sion began instructor suddenly closed throttle yelled Forced landing Dutch stopped whatever maneuver doing picking out likely open field set up power-off approach establishing base leg Drawing upon show-off experi ence Stinson deliberately made ap proach little high came off base leg nose-high turning slip fishtailed couple times kill speed ready set down instructor opened throttle made signal return Randolph As Dutch taxied flight line structor told him make couple solo landings Maybe Hollywood still too shabby 1935 Army Air Corps cadets no assurance being placed after graduation Having pump primed pulp mag azines such G-8 Battle Aces Sky Fighters Flying Aces etc Dutch really wanted complete training pursuits However selected bombers figuring multiengine experience would look lot bet ter airline application experience wild pursuit pilot suspect dating Zimmy sparking some prepare future thoughts thats came watching Dutch make flyby Keystone Bomber pretty June day i936 abso lutely certain would never bigger bomber Such mind iiyear-old Though still cadet shavetail lieu tenant Dutch lucky ones job assignment fly beautiful Martin B-lOs Mitchell Field NY B-b first mono plane bomber accepted Air Corps number duty however ceased inspiring after last straw became squadron commanders bombardier found him self doing magazine reading nose B-b some adroit management Dutch ob tained transfer 35th Squadron 8th Pursuit Group Langley Field VA fly ing P-6E PB-2A aircraft Pictures P-6E always show glossy colorful air plane complete hawks talons painted wheel pants craft Dutch flew used dirt fields got muddy rained Since filled pants mud Hawks pants cut open allowing mud thrown out fouled up chance paint talons Dutch took 8mm movie Hawks shows ex posed wheels utilitarian appearance planes looked like well-used work horses Other planes era open wheel pants radial-engine-powered Navy Goshawk Type II export Hawk case pants open deliv ery Curtiss Dutch received gold bar June 1937 became commissioned officer United States Air Corps soon trans ferred back San Antonio Kelly flight instructor Pursuit Section recieved regular commission 1939 Like World War II combat fighter pi lots Dutch made transition pistonto jet-powered aircraft years after war Hes seen F-102 1957 return Kelly Field Dutch saw Dick Hair quite often Flying various types aircraft over Stinson Field visit would occasionally put bit air show within sight field very aer obatic P-i2 Dutch remembers fa vorite maneuver loop double snap roll top did best demonstrate what Hotshot Charley become since BuhI Pup days 1939 accelerated training program based Kelly Field war gun Europe United States acting correct its pilot shortage stu dents special program civilian pi lots given commissions being polished military specifications day Captain Bert Hovey Dutchs section chief told him take couple P-12s check out new lieuten ant Joe Mackey aerobatics two cranked up takeoff Mackey placed himself position Dutchs wing structed headed toward aerobat ics area Dutch glanced over see Mackey doing right should bebut inverted Dutch did well-executed aileron roll turned see companion could match Mackey responded eight-point roll after Dutch front-row seat superb air show Lieutenant Mackey headed aero batics troupe Thirties flown Roscoe Turners Wedell Williams Racer National Air Races Mackey stayed Kelly instructor two flew lot together also managed occa sionally reprimanded some stunts put aircraft through Another Dutchs students Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA become Armys first flying ace World War II Early 1943 soon after promotion full colonel Wagner testing P-40N Warhawk Florida killed engine died takeoff 58 Model Aviation ELECTRIC CITABRIA great stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05/0 75 electric power take-offs aerobatics touch goes classic beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts step-by-step instructions complete rolled plans hardware threaded rods formed landing gear spruce spars shear webs 32 oz flying weight lightweight equipment 40 SPAN 275 SQ IN AREA FLAT BOTTOM WING 40 EJNEQUtIE& Electro-Combo includes kit DSC 075 Hyper thrust motor fused switch harness Tamiya style connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller IIAVEY YSTEMS 4 oRPoRATIoN 675 Tower Lane West Chester PA 19380 215 430-8645 number fliers survived enormous odds combat die aircraft accident home early 1940 Dutch contin gent instructors tasked open new flight training section Brooks Field near San Antonio TX flying North Ameri can BC-i aircraft later re placed AT-6 1942 trans ferred Mission TX Further manipulation Dutchs part brought assignment London logged some time Spitfires Hurri canes before being posted North Africa arrived however little late North African invasion Christmas Eve 1942 arrived Algiers signed Jimmy Doolittles Eighth Air Force Headquarters Operations Sec tion no combat-experienced per sonnel staff Dutch made num ber information-gathering trips units seeing action gave him time P-40 P-38 T-6and time Spitfire favorite air craft July 1943 Dutch wangled six weeks TDY temporary duty 325th Fight er Group Tunisia experienced several combat missions P-40s high point Dutch recalls came dam aged 109 duty arranged help Group Commander Major Bob Base ler Dutch arrived detailed fly 3 18th Squadron recep tion squadron mates polite enough noticeably cool hardly needed 29-year-old major combat mission after knocking 109 off tail flight leader third mis sion Dutch suddenly became okay P-40s incidentally replaced P-47s shortly thereafter Jug Doug Champlins Fighter Museum Mesa AZ painted Bob Baselers personal aircraft markings Baseler died 1983 believe taste action apparently whetted Dutchs appetite return TDY applied transfer 325th since senior CO maneuver considered impos sible Always planner Dutch showed Baseler should promoted thereby removing obstacle transfer time P-40s replaced P-47Ds 325th escorted President Roosevelt Cairo Conference during period Since Sicilian Campaign virtually over 325th reassigned 12th Air Force new 15th Air Force first week December 1943 325th moved Soliman Tunisia Fog gia Main Airport Italy Dutch assigned command 325th early April 1944 325th destroyed 133 enemy air craft using P-40s Africa P-47s April 1990 59 4 great companion very popular SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $2995 40 Fly Baby 0 YS Futaba parts close phone 1-800-535-2568 Italy fighter group destroyed 152 ad ditional planes late May P-47 re placed P-S lB C Mustangs used right up until V-E Day final tally 325th 529 enemy air craft destroyed plus 56 probables 88 damaged count did include air craft destroyed ground Dutch named personal aircraft Shimmy came up intrigu ing moniker combining first two let ters daughters name last four wifes name P-Si dis play Wright-Patterson Air Force Mu seum replica Shimmy IV basic 325th markings included red nose yellowand-black checkered tail large num ber side fuselage Dutchs num ber 52 top ace 325th Herschel H Herky Green 18 victories Green now lives Palos Verdes CA Dutch promoted rank full colonel returned United States September 1944 having flown 61 combat missions subsequent assignments routine staff command duty cluded duty Pentagon Air War College Alaska senior advisor Ohio Air National Guard Air Defense Com mand Thule Greenland commander Detroit Air Defense Sector Dutch re tired Air Force 1965 after 30 years active duty served Army Air Corps Army Air Force United States Air Force Dutch put wings away tried real estate action Quite under standably seemed rather dull aviation career ac cepted job line pilot company un der contract Atomic Energy Commis sion Due nature freight hauled required Q clearance highest level activity highly classified Dutch very active few years pilot roster worked hilt stuck because still loved fly company finally lost aircraft pi lot eight passengers cargo because pilot exhaustion 1978 FAA ground ed Dutch after diagnosis vertibro bas ilar insufficiency veteran aviator 46 years flying look back set himself scratch-building some gor geous Scale models three milepost aircraft Waco 10 Buhl Pup course Boeing P-12 Now ripe 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began shared accomplishments over years no doubt helped him achieve paid dues however since young wife immediately put through years anxiety wondering what happening husband something sus pect wife whos husband combat can understand Zimmy truly fine woman daughter Shari lives Tus tin CA senior contracts negotiator administrator Parker-Hannifin Indus tries son Jim AtlanticRichfield Oil Company Dallas TX very poor eyesight has prevented him flying However Jim well known inter national competition pistol range houseful trophies prove Fig ure out - Dutch Zimmy presently live Albu querque NM travel good deal attend Air Corps Air Force get togethers air forces countries fraternity hold multinational court some meetings some cases storytellers find talking about same engagementand may have fired other Much Dutchs story has omitted lack space Id love able share Dutchs vivid account 325ths trip Russia helped make Normandy landings June 6 D-day success diverting Germanys attention also gave lot on-the-spot ac counts explaining confusion yet ex ists concerning activities 325th Fighter Group 332nd sus pect someone will produce movie days will amplify confu sion Finally Dutch has given quantity detail Bull Pup thats just waiting antique buffs Per haps another day Writing article has something nostalgia trip Dutch knight skies eyes Il-year-old Fiftyone years later still During course long aviation career Dutch flew different types aircraft both civilian military list follows includes nearly type aircraft distinguished gentleman piloted Civilian aircraft included AeroCom mander 520 Aeronca C-3 Beech Bar Bonanza Twin Bonanza Beech 18 Queenair Mentor T-34 Westwind Bellanca 300 BuhI Bull Pup Cessna 172 182 206 320 Curtiss Fledgling Robin OX-5 DeHavil land Moth Twin Otter vener able Douglas DC-3 Fairchild 22 Fleet Warner Piper Aztec Commanche Navajo TnPacer Rearwin Jr Spartan C- 3 TravelAire E-4000 Waco 10 OX-5 Military aircraft included Beech AT7 AT-il C-45F H Boeing B-17 P-12B C D E F Cessna AT-8 17 U-3A Consolidated PT-3 lC D BT 7 PB-2A Consolidated Vultee L 5A Convair F-102A TF-102A F 106B Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Curtiss A-3B A-12 0-1G 0-39 0-52 P-IC F P 6E P-36A C variants P-40 Douglas BT-2 A-26B B-18 B-18A C-47A B D C-54D O-25A 0-35 0-43 DeHavilland L-20A Fairchild PT 19A C-61A Hawker Hurricane Fokker C-14A Keystone B-3A B 4A B-5A B-6A Lockheed T-33A CContinued page 163 AIR WOLF EPOXY FIBERGLASS FUSELAGES TAKES MOST 50-60 MECHANICS OTHER MODELS AVAILABLE LARRY JOLLY MODEL PRODUCTS $21000 5501 WCOMO SANTA ANA CALIFORNIA 92703 714 826-6861 scale documentation Bell 204 model its work car speak Nonetheless its easy achieve final product detailed Mikes Hucy As can see Mike true craftsman Unfortunately particular model badly damaged Tan gerine Rot Mike bouncing back getting ready Nats right now Mike wish lot luck anxious see Nats model Please keep us posted interested Im contacting Bill Curtis get information various blades products Ill get update recent talk John Gorham brought up speed happenings GMP According John Americanization GMP complete including new main gear tail rotor gear box cooling shroud Thats lot tooling say necessity mother GMP able reach its goals short three months John says UMP kits stock Rebel entertaining large following John also mentioned new 40-size full-house machine make its debut Toledo Tentatively called Viper new Helicopter features light weight full aerobatic performance Im sorry column going short month Ive recently very busy large ducted-fan model Boeing 737-200 movie Im just now getting life back tofor mewhat normal would however like thank reading column have questions photos Helicopt ers dont drop line Ill sure try publish BCNU Dutch/Lehmberg Continued page 61 40A P-38G L F-80A B C Hudson Martin B-b B-lOB B-12 McDon nell F-lO1F North American BT-9B BC-i AT-6 6A through C A-36A B 25C H J P-51B D H Northrop A17 Piasecki H-21 Republic P-47C D N F-84E Severski BT-8 P 35 Supermarine Spitfire Va Vb Stearman PT-17 St Louis C&F PT15 Thomas-Morse O-19B C E Verville PT-bC Vultee BT 13A BTL5 Note some airplanes near Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPtR POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS duplicates Beech 18 C-45 AT-7 AT-il same basic airplane Cur tiss A-3B 0-16 differ armament rear seat equipment Vultee BT 13A BT-15 have different power plants etc its quite impressive list man career Thingamabob/Underwood Continued page 65 out dont have land deadstick Determining flight time ever will take some practice part Deciding locate on/off switch does present little problem mount fuselage side youll have demount time change elec tric glow back again put switch firewall under electric motor falls under heading dumb since exercise extreme caution keeping fingers out prop Dont flying Control Line use least 50 ft lengths 018 braided lines model will fly 60-ft lines no trouble Seventy-footers would probably stretch ing limits credibility thing must un less want screw yourself ground fill fuel tank 25 engine will run what seems like jillion hours four ounces fuel quite since flown much Control Line test flew Thingamabob version up about three four minutes dawned filled tank wouldnt know got beautiful fast engine run lasted almost 30 minutes mind-numbing dizzying circular flight Get syringe-type filler measure ounce two start Control Line version remove rudder pushrod servo attach rudder post will induce right turn rudder will keep model out end lines found unnecessary put weight out board wing tip right rudder small amount right thrust engine A monthly publication covering International RC Soaring Scene US $17 yr 21/yr 1st class In Canada/Mexico $22/yr US funds AsIa & Paclf Ic $28/yr US funds Europe UK $28/yr US funds Surface Mall ForeIgn $18/yr US funds RO SOARING DIGEST PO Box 1079 Payson AZ 85547 THE LEADE NEW ES 100 THP DESIGN DIAPRICE 15 16 NEW PROPELLERS CYCLE TAILORED 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The last line four Shimmys P-51D display US Air Force Museum Wright-Patterson Air Force Base OH painted colors 325th Fighter Group Italy 1944 has Colonel Dutch Sluters personal logo Shimmy IV emblazoned side nostalgic look back career friend extraordi nary times people machines intertwined life IT WAS ONE beautiful spring days San Antonio fluffy cumulocir rus clouds scattered like cotton balls in tensely blue sky Seen through eyes 11-year-old sky green lawn made perfect setting colorful dresses floppy hats mothers girlfriends young pilots just graduated As guests made pleasant small talk chatted another cadets dis appeared beyond somber hangars shielded aircraft view young boy listened rumbling explosions aircraft engines came life imagination could see wheel taxi down apron runway angled off toward Duncan Field couple miles distant age 11 easy enough imagine myself stern54 Model Aviation Left Dutch Sluder January 1933 age 18 standing front Waco 10 hed just soloed managed solo just unde two months less eight hours flight time under skillful instruction Don McDonnell Right Shown plane Dutch soloed thats special place heart ever sincethe OX-S-powered Waco 10 photograph taken Austin TX 1933 visaged warriors shoving up goggles gloved hand casting quick glance sky making sure no Fokker Pfalz aircraft peeling out formation strafe helpless aircraft taking off aerodrome below As rumbling voices engines changed roar casual talk ceased Everyone watched sky over hangars first glimpse sons friends sweethearts pulled goggles down over oilstreaked face jammed throttle wide open swift movement As ma chine roared down runway could feel mounting pressure stick wheels lifted off. Junior arent looking right di rection Renee shaking shoulder going miss seeing Dutch fly Back real world saw air planes appear over hangars Instead Spads Camels Bristols Handley Pages Curtiss P-i Boeing P 12 pursuits Curtiss A-3 Attacks ThomasMorse 0-19 Douglas 0-25 observation craft Keystone bombers B-3 through B-6 completed parade yes production line changing almost weekly time didnt know Keystone Dutch looked bombers thought looking tie biggest airplane world would ever see beautiful spring commencement day June 1936 JT Jake Sluder lovely wife Renee thought looked like popular movie star period friends family Theyd invited graduation JT s brother Dutch Air Corps Advanced Flying School Kelly Field TX pilots still rank cadet graduation becom ing second lieutenants about year About year later policy changed graduating cadets immediately became lieu tenants Dutch very busy young man prior landmark day attended Texas University before entering Air Corps having learned fly years before working Stinson Field during summer given Fokker D-7 SE5 both small solid models large 24-in solid pine Curtiss P-i models magnificent age could see difference between good poor craftsmanship addition Dutch provided lot photos still retain inter ested Real Thing now Yes indeed Dutch got started early Real Thing late 1932 tender age 18 began flying lessons OX-S-powered Waco 10 Austin TX home Texas University soloed little under two months less eight hours under skillful instruction Don McDonell university demanded lot Dutchs time effort relatively short time solo indicated sharp wellorganized student excellent instructor what probably case combina tion both During time Dutch would quit eating until saved four dollarswhich thirty minutes flying time Waco walk out airport fly catch ride back campus Hed repeat whole program following week Thats perserverance April 1933 Dutch acquired 10 hours necessary rate solo license #28874 23rd June 1933 obtained private license San Antonio took up first pas senger Travelaire E-4000 owned Dick Hair passenger mother course Thats sterling example mothers faith son Waco 10 quite machine absolutely minimal instrumentation air speed estimated pitch loud ness flying wires reacted slipstream instruments altimeter water temperature/oil temperaApril 1990 55 Dutchs friend mentor Marion P Dick Hair standing front Stinson 1935 time Dick operated flying service Stinson Field serving San Antonio days learned fly Wright Model B 1916 instructor Katherine Stinson 1935 Dutch became Army Air Corps ca det Randolph Field TX photo Dutch Sluder flying suit chute front Boeing PT-li taken June 1935 Upperclassman Dutch Sluder mother Mrs JT Sluder Randolph Field fall 1935 Dutch got pri vate license 1933 mother became first passenger going up him Tray elaire E-4000 owned friend Dick Hair Newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dutch Sluder Langley Field VA June 1937 Hes standing front Curtiss P-6E tached 35th Pursuit Squadron 8th Pur suit Group transferred after doing stint B-la bombers Mitchell Field NY Three Dutchs favorite prewar pursuit ships logged hours planes first Langley Field VA later instructor Kelly Field TX flying aviation greats such aerobatics master Joe Mackey Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA Armys U first combat ace World War II Wagner killed 1943 Florida engine P-40N quit takeoff Above left Curtiss P-i photographed Dutch Kelly Field Above right US Air Force photo Curtiss P-6E Below US Air Force photo Boeing P-12 ture gauges tachometer pretty sleek biplane OX-S engine cowled very neatly no wind screen rear cockpit Dutch says because student rode rear seat lack windscreen permitted him feel slipstream change during slips skids imagine its absence also al lowed instructor make ferocious grim aces rear-seat student goofed Dutchs comment Shortly after first soloed Dutch JT heard some BuhI Pups available Houston new list price around $1300 JT went Houston bought two total $900 pair logged total flying time 15 minutes during de pression no money kind thing friend Texas University Shelby Kritser Amarillo TX bought Pups NC-394Y Sluders kept NC-393Y later years Krister publish Amarillo Globe-Times come owner-operator Tradewinds Airport west Texas town fatally crashed 1966 flying F8F Bearcat air show Al Tuerpe Stinson Field Aer onca C-3 wanted fly Pup Sluders made deal would swap flying time Pup Tuerpes teaching JT fly C-3 plus cost gas trainer JT spent about 10 dollars learning solo Pup truly gentle lady would spin re cover very nicely spin nor mal allowing airplane lose con siderable altitude just turn two Due low-powered Szekely en gine 45 hp other aerobatics within planes capabilities preplanned build up speed As sidelight Dutchs present-day neigh bor Hungarian escaped country 1957 told him correct pronunciation Szekely Say-kai gentleman Dr Derek Pasternak chief medicine Lovelace Clinic Albu querque NM founder clinic Randy Lovelace conducted consid erable research Air Force highaltitude flight died plane crash several years ago Mrs Lovelace fly ing passengers out Aspen CO under marginal weather conditions Flying VFR visual flight rules turned up blind canyon crashed mountainside no survivors characteristic Pup could have better Dutch remembers plane insufficient rudder area performing steep slips intrepid ne Domoers mat uutcn tiew Mitchell Field NY originally volunteered bombers reasoning such experience would easily transfer commercial aviation depression still being felt growing conflict Europe wasnt yet taken seriously left Keystone B-5A B-6A right USAF photo Martin B-b first truly modern metal bombers go service 56 Model Aviation young men liked sideslip sharp angle across fence Stinson Field boun dary kicking rudder dropping three-point landingreal hot shot stuff impress local observers Dutch hastened point out also great way checking landing path avoid hitting Texas jackrabbits indige nous Stinson Field boys noted craft wired lights option installed again depression mea sure bought set lights along couple Model T dashlights il luminate four instruments just Waco 10 hooked Hot Shot battery tiny luggage compartment hind cockpit evening Septem ber 7 1933 two brothers went out Stinson neat Marquette Coupe check out new modification think such auspicious undertaking 19year-old about 60 hours flight time should have date recorded Despite younger years Dutch logged flying hours JT brothers agreed let him take Pup skies first night flight Since too expensive use floodlights Dutch IT prearranged air port manager airport boundary lights would turned Dutch took off dusk remembers watching lights come cruised over San Antonio gath ering twilight city glowing like jewel box beneath him Returning Stinson bold young avi ator began shooting landings guessing ground trying make three-pointers As approached first landing Dutch wished asked mentor Dick Hair some pointers Dick would have told him forget probably feel ground throttle did anyway evening went well two returned next night practice landings Pup lived showed Someone looking out daring young men flying ma chine Marion P Dick Hair operated flying service Stinson Field air port serving San Antonio days Dutch met Dick attending high school Texas Military Academy Almost weekend Dutch classmate would go out Stinson hang around Hairs air craft sometimes finding dollar 10minute ride buddy Dave Hill inciden tally dead shot rubberband spitballs would sit back classroom nail kids front row Perhaps teachers chastised him will feel better learn marks manship paid off later years Dave came Colonel Tex Hill second-ranking combat ace AVG American Volun teer Group Flying Tigers 18-plus vic tories Dick number aircraft including Travelaire E-4000 taught fly Katharine Stinson 1916 Wright Model B return being line boy prepping aircraft washing down flying passengers Dick allowed Dutch han gar space Pup let him build up time Hair aircraft After Dutch got private commer cial licenses putting nearly spare time Dick Hair friend stalled out Pup about 100 ft Dutchs plane out commission flying time harder come 1935 Dutch applied received appointment cadet Randolph Field entered Army Air Corps June ended problem finding time fly About same time something else happened affect course career Woodlawn Lake recreation area lo cated few miles downtown San Anto nio about two miles home matter fact Dutch took time away Stinson Field Ill bet broke went swim Woodlawn Pool cool off Instead met lovely Miss Zimmerman shortly began dat ing As Dutch put time money short supply typical date con sisted What flavor Coke want free movies Breckenridge Park Dutch married Zimmy Galveston three years later story getting ahead cue April 1990 57 Left Spring 1944 Lesina ItalyDutch commander 325th Fighter Group seen sitting cockpit P-47D-16 crew chief S/Sgt Luke Misen heimer Tampa FL Above Dutchs Thunderbolt Shimmy II photographed Lesina Italy 1944 Below Dutch posing battle-weary Jug Note Nazi kill symbol left Dutchs P-SiB Shimmy III photographed Lesina summer 1944 aircraft led 325ths mission Russia June 2-11 1944 Note long-range auxiliary fuel tanks new cadets placed Stage primary training cadets divided four groups Flight through Flight D first three flights equipped Consolidated PT-3 Flight D newer PT-i iD PT-il D brakes instrument panel switches instruments neatly ar ranged PT-3 instruments haphazardly mounted cabanes no brakes sophisticated air plane considered easy fly Dutch assigned Flight D came known push-button pi lots' Dutch made no secret holding Limited Commercial License No 28874 cant imagine having behaved like James Cagney Captains Clouds other hand After completing ground school Dutch three half-hour sessions dual instruc tion PT-i LD Shortly after last ses sion began instructor suddenly closed throttle yelled Forced landing Dutch stopped whatever maneuver doing picking out likely open field set up power-off approach establishing base leg Drawing upon show-off experi ence Stinson deliberately made ap proach little high came off base leg nose-high turning slip fishtailed couple times kill speed ready set down instructor opened throttle made signal return Randolph As Dutch taxied flight line structor told him make couple solo landings Maybe Hollywood still too shabby 1935 Army Air Corps cadets no assurance being placed after graduation Having pump primed pulp mag azines such G-8 Battle Aces Sky Fighters Flying Aces etc Dutch really wanted complete training pursuits However selected bombers figuring multiengine experience would look lot bet ter airline application experience wild pursuit pilot suspect dating Zimmy sparking some prepare future thoughts thats came watching Dutch make flyby Keystone Bomber pretty June day i936 abso lutely certain would never bigger bomber Such mind iiyear-old Though still cadet shavetail lieu tenant Dutch lucky ones job assignment fly beautiful Martin B-lOs Mitchell Field NY B-b first mono plane bomber accepted Air Corps number duty however ceased inspiring after last straw became squadron commanders bombardier found him self doing magazine reading nose B-b some adroit management Dutch ob tained transfer 35th Squadron 8th Pursuit Group Langley Field VA fly ing P-6E PB-2A aircraft Pictures P-6E always show glossy colorful air plane complete hawks talons painted wheel pants craft Dutch flew used dirt fields got muddy rained Since filled pants mud Hawks pants cut open allowing mud thrown out fouled up chance paint talons Dutch took 8mm movie Hawks shows ex posed wheels utilitarian appearance planes looked like well-used work horses Other planes era open wheel pants radial-engine-powered Navy Goshawk Type II export Hawk case pants open deliv ery Curtiss Dutch received gold bar June 1937 became commissioned officer United States Air Corps soon trans ferred back San Antonio Kelly flight instructor Pursuit Section recieved regular commission 1939 Like World War II combat fighter pi lots Dutch made transition pistonto jet-powered aircraft years after war Hes seen F-102 1957 return Kelly Field Dutch saw Dick Hair quite often Flying various types aircraft over Stinson Field visit would occasionally put bit air show within sight field very aer obatic P-i2 Dutch remembers fa vorite maneuver loop double snap roll top did best demonstrate what Hotshot Charley become since BuhI Pup days 1939 accelerated training program based Kelly Field war gun Europe United States acting correct its pilot shortage stu dents special program civilian pi lots given commissions being polished military specifications day Captain Bert Hovey Dutchs section chief told him take couple P-12s check out new lieuten ant Joe Mackey aerobatics two cranked up takeoff Mackey placed himself position Dutchs wing structed headed toward aerobat ics area Dutch glanced over see Mackey doing right should bebut inverted Dutch did well-executed aileron roll turned see companion could match Mackey responded eight-point roll after Dutch front-row seat superb air show Lieutenant Mackey headed aero batics troupe Thirties flown Roscoe Turners Wedell Williams Racer National Air Races Mackey stayed Kelly instructor two flew lot together also managed occa sionally reprimanded some stunts put aircraft through Another Dutchs students Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA become Armys first flying ace World War II Early 1943 soon after promotion full colonel Wagner testing P-40N Warhawk Florida killed engine died takeoff 58 Model Aviation ELECTRIC CITABRIA great stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05/0 75 electric power take-offs aerobatics touch goes classic beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts step-by-step instructions complete rolled plans hardware threaded rods formed landing gear spruce spars shear webs 32 oz flying weight lightweight equipment 40 SPAN 275 SQ IN AREA FLAT BOTTOM WING 40 EJNEQUtIE& Electro-Combo includes kit DSC 075 Hyper thrust motor fused switch harness Tamiya style connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller IIAVEY YSTEMS 4 oRPoRATIoN 675 Tower Lane West Chester PA 19380 215 430-8645 number fliers survived enormous odds combat die aircraft accident home early 1940 Dutch contin gent instructors tasked open new flight training section Brooks Field near San Antonio TX flying North Ameri can BC-i aircraft later re placed AT-6 1942 trans ferred Mission TX Further manipulation Dutchs part brought assignment London logged some time Spitfires Hurri canes before being posted North Africa arrived however little late North African invasion Christmas Eve 1942 arrived Algiers signed Jimmy Doolittles Eighth Air Force Headquarters Operations Sec tion no combat-experienced per sonnel staff Dutch made num ber information-gathering trips units seeing action gave him time P-40 P-38 T-6and time Spitfire favorite air craft July 1943 Dutch wangled six weeks TDY temporary duty 325th Fight er Group Tunisia experienced several combat missions P-40s high point Dutch recalls came dam aged 109 duty arranged help Group Commander Major Bob Base ler Dutch arrived detailed fly 3 18th Squadron recep tion squadron mates polite enough noticeably cool hardly needed 29-year-old major combat mission after knocking 109 off tail flight leader third mis sion Dutch suddenly became okay P-40s incidentally replaced P-47s shortly thereafter Jug Doug Champlins Fighter Museum Mesa AZ painted Bob Baselers personal aircraft markings Baseler died 1983 believe taste action apparently whetted Dutchs appetite return TDY applied transfer 325th since senior CO maneuver considered impos sible Always planner Dutch showed Baseler should promoted thereby removing obstacle transfer time P-40s replaced P-47Ds 325th escorted President Roosevelt Cairo Conference during period Since Sicilian Campaign virtually over 325th reassigned 12th Air Force new 15th Air Force first week December 1943 325th moved Soliman Tunisia Fog gia Main Airport Italy Dutch assigned command 325th early April 1944 325th destroyed 133 enemy air craft using P-40s Africa P-47s April 1990 59 4 great companion very popular SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $2995 40 Fly Baby 0 YS Futaba parts close phone 1-800-535-2568 Italy fighter group destroyed 152 ad ditional planes late May P-47 re placed P-S lB C Mustangs used right up until V-E Day final tally 325th 529 enemy air craft destroyed plus 56 probables 88 damaged count did include air craft destroyed ground Dutch named personal aircraft Shimmy came up intrigu ing moniker combining first two let ters daughters name last four wifes name P-Si dis play Wright-Patterson Air Force Mu seum replica Shimmy IV basic 325th markings included red nose yellowand-black checkered tail large num ber side fuselage Dutchs num ber 52 top ace 325th Herschel H Herky Green 18 victories Green now lives Palos Verdes CA Dutch promoted rank full colonel returned United States September 1944 having flown 61 combat missions subsequent assignments routine staff command duty cluded duty Pentagon Air War College Alaska senior advisor Ohio Air National Guard Air Defense Com mand Thule Greenland commander Detroit Air Defense Sector Dutch re tired Air Force 1965 after 30 years active duty served Army Air Corps Army Air Force United States Air Force Dutch put wings away tried real estate action Quite under standably seemed rather dull aviation career ac cepted job line pilot company un der contract Atomic Energy Commis sion Due nature freight hauled required Q clearance highest level activity highly classified Dutch very active few years pilot roster worked hilt stuck because still loved fly company finally lost aircraft pi lot eight passengers cargo because pilot exhaustion 1978 FAA ground ed Dutch after diagnosis vertibro bas ilar insufficiency veteran aviator 46 years flying look back set himself scratch-building some gor geous Scale models three milepost aircraft Waco 10 Buhl Pup course Boeing P-12 Now ripe 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began shared accomplishments over years no doubt helped him achieve paid dues however since young wife immediately put through years anxiety wondering what happening husband something sus pect wife whos husband combat can understand Zimmy truly fine woman daughter Shari lives Tus tin CA senior contracts negotiator administrator Parker-Hannifin Indus tries son Jim AtlanticRichfield Oil Company Dallas TX very poor eyesight has prevented him flying However Jim well known inter national competition pistol range houseful trophies prove Fig ure out - Dutch Zimmy presently live Albu querque NM travel good deal attend Air Corps Air Force get togethers air forces countries fraternity hold multinational court some meetings some cases storytellers find talking about same engagementand may have fired other Much Dutchs story has omitted lack space Id love able share Dutchs vivid account 325ths trip Russia helped make Normandy landings June 6 D-day success diverting Germanys attention also gave lot on-the-spot ac counts explaining confusion yet ex ists concerning activities 325th Fighter Group 332nd sus pect someone will produce movie days will amplify confu sion Finally Dutch has given quantity detail Bull Pup thats just waiting antique buffs Per haps another day Writing article has something nostalgia trip Dutch knight skies eyes Il-year-old Fiftyone years later still During course long aviation career Dutch flew different types aircraft both civilian military list follows includes nearly type aircraft distinguished gentleman piloted Civilian aircraft included AeroCom mander 520 Aeronca C-3 Beech Bar Bonanza Twin Bonanza Beech 18 Queenair Mentor T-34 Westwind Bellanca 300 BuhI Bull Pup Cessna 172 182 206 320 Curtiss Fledgling Robin OX-5 DeHavil land Moth Twin Otter vener able Douglas DC-3 Fairchild 22 Fleet Warner Piper Aztec Commanche Navajo TnPacer Rearwin Jr Spartan C- 3 TravelAire E-4000 Waco 10 OX-5 Military aircraft included Beech AT7 AT-il C-45F H Boeing B-17 P-12B C D E F Cessna AT-8 17 U-3A Consolidated PT-3 lC D BT 7 PB-2A Consolidated Vultee L 5A Convair F-102A TF-102A F 106B Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Curtiss A-3B A-12 0-1G 0-39 0-52 P-IC F P 6E P-36A C variants P-40 Douglas BT-2 A-26B B-18 B-18A C-47A B D C-54D O-25A 0-35 0-43 DeHavilland L-20A Fairchild PT 19A C-61A Hawker Hurricane Fokker C-14A Keystone B-3A B 4A B-5A B-6A Lockheed T-33A CContinued page 163 AIR WOLF EPOXY FIBERGLASS FUSELAGES TAKES MOST 50-60 MECHANICS OTHER MODELS AVAILABLE LARRY JOLLY MODEL PRODUCTS $21000 5501 WCOMO SANTA ANA CALIFORNIA 92703 714 826-6861 scale documentation Bell 204 model its work car speak Nonetheless its easy achieve final product detailed Mikes Hucy As can see Mike true craftsman Unfortunately particular model badly damaged Tan gerine Rot Mike bouncing back getting ready Nats right now Mike wish lot luck anxious see Nats model Please keep us posted interested Im contacting Bill Curtis get information various blades products Ill get update recent talk John Gorham brought up speed happenings GMP According John Americanization GMP complete including new main gear tail rotor gear box cooling shroud Thats lot tooling say necessity mother GMP able reach its goals short three months John says UMP kits stock Rebel entertaining large following John also mentioned new 40-size full-house machine make its debut Toledo Tentatively called Viper new Helicopter features light weight full aerobatic performance Im sorry column going short month Ive recently very busy large ducted-fan model Boeing 737-200 movie Im just now getting life back tofor mewhat normal would however like thank reading column have questions photos Helicopt ers dont drop line Ill sure try publish BCNU Dutch/Lehmberg Continued page 61 40A P-38G L F-80A B C Hudson Martin B-b B-lOB B-12 McDon nell F-lO1F North American BT-9B BC-i AT-6 6A through C A-36A B 25C H J P-51B D H Northrop A17 Piasecki H-21 Republic P-47C D N F-84E Severski BT-8 P 35 Supermarine Spitfire Va Vb Stearman PT-17 St Louis C&F PT15 Thomas-Morse O-19B C E Verville PT-bC Vultee BT 13A BTL5 Note some airplanes near Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPtR POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS duplicates Beech 18 C-45 AT-7 AT-il same basic airplane Cur tiss A-3B 0-16 differ armament rear seat equipment Vultee BT 13A BT-15 have different power plants etc its quite impressive list man career Thingamabob/Underwood Continued page 65 out dont have land deadstick Determining flight time ever will take some practice part Deciding locate on/off switch does present little problem mount fuselage side youll have demount time change elec tric glow back again put switch firewall under electric motor falls under heading dumb since exercise extreme caution keeping fingers out prop Dont flying Control Line use least 50 ft lengths 018 braided lines model will fly 60-ft lines no trouble Seventy-footers would probably stretch ing limits credibility thing must un less want screw yourself ground fill fuel tank 25 engine will run what seems like jillion hours four ounces fuel quite since flown much Control Line test flew Thingamabob version up about three four minutes dawned filled tank wouldnt know got beautiful fast engine run lasted almost 30 minutes mind-numbing dizzying circular flight Get syringe-type filler measure ounce two start Control Line version remove rudder pushrod servo attach rudder post will induce right turn rudder will keep model out end lines found unnecessary put weight out board wing tip right rudder small amount right thrust engine A monthly publication covering International RC Soaring Scene US $17 yr 21/yr 1st class In Canada/Mexico $22/yr US funds AsIa & Paclf Ic $28/yr US funds Europe UK $28/yr US funds Surface Mall ForeIgn $18/yr US funds RO SOARING DIGEST PO Box 1079 Payson AZ 85547 THE LEADE NEW ES 100 THP DESIGN DIAPRICE 15 16 NEW PROPELLERS CYCLE TAILORED 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The last line four Shimmys P-51D display US Air Force Museum Wright-Patterson Air Force Base OH painted colors 325th Fighter Group Italy 1944 has Colonel Dutch Sluters personal logo Shimmy IV emblazoned side nostalgic look back career friend extraordi nary times people machines intertwined life IT WAS ONE beautiful spring days San Antonio fluffy cumulocir rus clouds scattered like cotton balls in tensely blue sky Seen through eyes 11-year-old sky green lawn made perfect setting colorful dresses floppy hats mothers girlfriends young pilots just graduated As guests made pleasant small talk chatted another cadets dis appeared beyond somber hangars shielded aircraft view young boy listened rumbling explosions aircraft engines came life imagination could see wheel taxi down apron runway angled off toward Duncan Field couple miles distant age 11 easy enough imagine myself stern54 Model Aviation Left Dutch Sluder January 1933 age 18 standing front Waco 10 hed just soloed managed solo just unde two months less eight hours flight time under skillful instruction Don McDonnell Right Shown plane Dutch soloed thats special place heart ever sincethe OX-S-powered Waco 10 photograph taken Austin TX 1933 visaged warriors shoving up goggles gloved hand casting quick glance sky making sure no Fokker Pfalz aircraft peeling out formation strafe helpless aircraft taking off aerodrome below As rumbling voices engines changed roar casual talk ceased Everyone watched sky over hangars first glimpse sons friends sweethearts pulled goggles down over oilstreaked face jammed throttle wide open swift movement As ma chine roared down runway could feel mounting pressure stick wheels lifted off. Junior arent looking right di rection Renee shaking shoulder going miss seeing Dutch fly Back real world saw air planes appear over hangars Instead Spads Camels Bristols Handley Pages Curtiss P-i Boeing P 12 pursuits Curtiss A-3 Attacks ThomasMorse 0-19 Douglas 0-25 observation craft Keystone bombers B-3 through B-6 completed parade yes production line changing almost weekly time didnt know Keystone Dutch looked bombers thought looking tie biggest airplane world would ever see beautiful spring commencement day June 1936 JT Jake Sluder lovely wife Renee thought looked like popular movie star period friends family Theyd invited graduation JT s brother Dutch Air Corps Advanced Flying School Kelly Field TX pilots still rank cadet graduation becom ing second lieutenants about year About year later policy changed graduating cadets immediately became lieu tenants Dutch very busy young man prior landmark day attended Texas University before entering Air Corps having learned fly years before working Stinson Field during summer given Fokker D-7 SE5 both small solid models large 24-in solid pine Curtiss P-i models magnificent age could see difference between good poor craftsmanship addition Dutch provided lot photos still retain inter ested Real Thing now Yes indeed Dutch got started early Real Thing late 1932 tender age 18 began flying lessons OX-S-powered Waco 10 Austin TX home Texas University soloed little under two months less eight hours under skillful instruction Don McDonell university demanded lot Dutchs time effort relatively short time solo indicated sharp wellorganized student excellent instructor what probably case combina tion both During time Dutch would quit eating until saved four dollarswhich thirty minutes flying time Waco walk out airport fly catch ride back campus Hed repeat whole program following week Thats perserverance April 1933 Dutch acquired 10 hours necessary rate solo license #28874 23rd June 1933 obtained private license San Antonio took up first pas senger Travelaire E-4000 owned Dick Hair passenger mother course Thats sterling example mothers faith son Waco 10 quite machine absolutely minimal instrumentation air speed estimated pitch loud ness flying wires reacted slipstream instruments altimeter water temperature/oil temperaApril 1990 55 Dutchs friend mentor Marion P Dick Hair standing front Stinson 1935 time Dick operated flying service Stinson Field serving San Antonio days learned fly Wright Model B 1916 instructor Katherine Stinson 1935 Dutch became Army Air Corps ca det Randolph Field TX photo Dutch Sluder flying suit chute front Boeing PT-li taken June 1935 Upperclassman Dutch Sluder mother Mrs JT Sluder Randolph Field fall 1935 Dutch got pri vate license 1933 mother became first passenger going up him Tray elaire E-4000 owned friend Dick Hair Newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dutch Sluder Langley Field VA June 1937 Hes standing front Curtiss P-6E tached 35th Pursuit Squadron 8th Pur suit Group transferred after doing stint B-la bombers Mitchell Field NY Three Dutchs favorite prewar pursuit ships logged hours planes first Langley Field VA later instructor Kelly Field TX flying aviation greats such aerobatics master Joe Mackey Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA Armys U first combat ace World War II Wagner killed 1943 Florida engine P-40N quit takeoff Above left Curtiss P-i photographed Dutch Kelly Field Above right US Air Force photo Curtiss P-6E Below US Air Force photo Boeing P-12 ture gauges tachometer pretty sleek biplane OX-S engine cowled very neatly no wind screen rear cockpit Dutch says because student rode rear seat lack windscreen permitted him feel slipstream change during slips skids imagine its absence also al lowed instructor make ferocious grim aces rear-seat student goofed Dutchs comment Shortly after first soloed Dutch JT heard some BuhI Pups available Houston new list price around $1300 JT went Houston bought two total $900 pair logged total flying time 15 minutes during de pression no money kind thing friend Texas University Shelby Kritser Amarillo TX bought Pups NC-394Y Sluders kept NC-393Y later years Krister publish Amarillo Globe-Times come owner-operator Tradewinds Airport west Texas town fatally crashed 1966 flying F8F Bearcat air show Al Tuerpe Stinson Field Aer onca C-3 wanted fly Pup Sluders made deal would swap flying time Pup Tuerpes teaching JT fly C-3 plus cost gas trainer JT spent about 10 dollars learning solo Pup truly gentle lady would spin re cover very nicely spin nor mal allowing airplane lose con siderable altitude just turn two Due low-powered Szekely en gine 45 hp other aerobatics within planes capabilities preplanned build up speed As sidelight Dutchs present-day neigh bor Hungarian escaped country 1957 told him correct pronunciation Szekely Say-kai gentleman Dr Derek Pasternak chief medicine Lovelace Clinic Albu querque NM founder clinic Randy Lovelace conducted consid erable research Air Force highaltitude flight died plane crash several years ago Mrs Lovelace fly ing passengers out Aspen CO under marginal weather conditions Flying VFR visual flight rules turned up blind canyon crashed mountainside no survivors characteristic Pup could have better Dutch remembers plane insufficient rudder area performing steep slips intrepid ne Domoers mat uutcn tiew Mitchell Field NY originally volunteered bombers reasoning such experience would easily transfer commercial aviation depression still being felt growing conflict Europe wasnt yet taken seriously left Keystone B-5A B-6A right USAF photo Martin B-b first truly modern metal bombers go service 56 Model Aviation young men liked sideslip sharp angle across fence Stinson Field boun dary kicking rudder dropping three-point landingreal hot shot stuff impress local observers Dutch hastened point out also great way checking landing path avoid hitting Texas jackrabbits indige nous Stinson Field boys noted craft wired lights option installed again depression mea sure bought set lights along couple Model T dashlights il luminate four instruments just Waco 10 hooked Hot Shot battery tiny luggage compartment hind cockpit evening Septem ber 7 1933 two brothers went out Stinson neat Marquette Coupe check out new modification think such auspicious undertaking 19year-old about 60 hours flight time should have date recorded Despite younger years Dutch logged flying hours JT brothers agreed let him take Pup skies first night flight Since too expensive use floodlights Dutch IT prearranged air port manager airport boundary lights would turned Dutch took off dusk remembers watching lights come cruised over San Antonio gath ering twilight city glowing like jewel box beneath him Returning Stinson bold young avi ator began shooting landings guessing ground trying make three-pointers As approached first landing Dutch wished asked mentor Dick Hair some pointers Dick would have told him forget probably feel ground throttle did anyway evening went well two returned next night practice landings Pup lived showed Someone looking out daring young men flying ma chine Marion P Dick Hair operated flying service Stinson Field air port serving San Antonio days Dutch met Dick attending high school Texas Military Academy Almost weekend Dutch classmate would go out Stinson hang around Hairs air craft sometimes finding dollar 10minute ride buddy Dave Hill inciden tally dead shot rubberband spitballs would sit back classroom nail kids front row Perhaps teachers chastised him will feel better learn marks manship paid off later years Dave came Colonel Tex Hill second-ranking combat ace AVG American Volun teer Group Flying Tigers 18-plus vic tories Dick number aircraft including Travelaire E-4000 taught fly Katharine Stinson 1916 Wright Model B return being line boy prepping aircraft washing down flying passengers Dick allowed Dutch han gar space Pup let him build up time Hair aircraft After Dutch got private commer cial licenses putting nearly spare time Dick Hair friend stalled out Pup about 100 ft Dutchs plane out commission flying time harder come 1935 Dutch applied received appointment cadet Randolph Field entered Army Air Corps June ended problem finding time fly About same time something else happened affect course career Woodlawn Lake recreation area lo cated few miles downtown San Anto nio about two miles home matter fact Dutch took time away Stinson Field Ill bet broke went swim Woodlawn Pool cool off Instead met lovely Miss Zimmerman shortly began dat ing As Dutch put time money short supply typical date con sisted What flavor Coke want free movies Breckenridge Park Dutch married Zimmy Galveston three years later story getting ahead cue April 1990 57 Left Spring 1944 Lesina ItalyDutch commander 325th Fighter Group seen sitting cockpit P-47D-16 crew chief S/Sgt Luke Misen heimer Tampa FL Above Dutchs Thunderbolt Shimmy II photographed Lesina Italy 1944 Below Dutch posing battle-weary Jug Note Nazi kill symbol left Dutchs P-SiB Shimmy III photographed Lesina summer 1944 aircraft led 325ths mission Russia June 2-11 1944 Note long-range auxiliary fuel tanks new cadets placed Stage primary training cadets divided four groups Flight through Flight D first three flights equipped Consolidated PT-3 Flight D newer PT-i iD PT-il D brakes instrument panel switches instruments neatly ar ranged PT-3 instruments haphazardly mounted cabanes no brakes sophisticated air plane considered easy fly Dutch assigned Flight D came known push-button pi lots' Dutch made no secret holding Limited Commercial License No 28874 cant imagine having behaved like James Cagney Captains Clouds other hand After completing ground school Dutch three half-hour sessions dual instruc tion PT-i LD Shortly after last ses sion began instructor suddenly closed throttle yelled Forced landing Dutch stopped whatever maneuver doing picking out likely open field set up power-off approach establishing base leg Drawing upon show-off experi ence Stinson deliberately made ap proach little high came off base leg nose-high turning slip fishtailed couple times kill speed ready set down instructor opened throttle made signal return Randolph As Dutch taxied flight line structor told him make couple solo landings Maybe Hollywood still too shabby 1935 Army Air Corps cadets no assurance being placed after graduation Having pump primed pulp mag azines such G-8 Battle Aces Sky Fighters Flying Aces etc Dutch really wanted complete training pursuits However selected bombers figuring multiengine experience would look lot bet ter airline application experience wild pursuit pilot suspect dating Zimmy sparking some prepare future thoughts thats came watching Dutch make flyby Keystone Bomber pretty June day i936 abso lutely certain would never bigger bomber Such mind iiyear-old Though still cadet shavetail lieu tenant Dutch lucky ones job assignment fly beautiful Martin B-lOs Mitchell Field NY B-b first mono plane bomber accepted Air Corps number duty however ceased inspiring after last straw became squadron commanders bombardier found him self doing magazine reading nose B-b some adroit management Dutch ob tained transfer 35th Squadron 8th Pursuit Group Langley Field VA fly ing P-6E PB-2A aircraft Pictures P-6E always show glossy colorful air plane complete hawks talons painted wheel pants craft Dutch flew used dirt fields got muddy rained Since filled pants mud Hawks pants cut open allowing mud thrown out fouled up chance paint talons Dutch took 8mm movie Hawks shows ex posed wheels utilitarian appearance planes looked like well-used work horses Other planes era open wheel pants radial-engine-powered Navy Goshawk Type II export Hawk case pants open deliv ery Curtiss Dutch received gold bar June 1937 became commissioned officer United States Air Corps soon trans ferred back San Antonio Kelly flight instructor Pursuit Section recieved regular commission 1939 Like World War II combat fighter pi lots Dutch made transition pistonto jet-powered aircraft years after war Hes seen F-102 1957 return Kelly Field Dutch saw Dick Hair quite often Flying various types aircraft over Stinson Field visit would occasionally put bit air show within sight field very aer obatic P-i2 Dutch remembers fa vorite maneuver loop double snap roll top did best demonstrate what Hotshot Charley become since BuhI Pup days 1939 accelerated training program based Kelly Field war gun Europe United States acting correct its pilot shortage stu dents special program civilian pi lots given commissions being polished military specifications day Captain Bert Hovey Dutchs section chief told him take couple P-12s check out new lieuten ant Joe Mackey aerobatics two cranked up takeoff Mackey placed himself position Dutchs wing structed headed toward aerobat ics area Dutch glanced over see Mackey doing right should bebut inverted Dutch did well-executed aileron roll turned see companion could match Mackey responded eight-point roll after Dutch front-row seat superb air show Lieutenant Mackey headed aero batics troupe Thirties flown Roscoe Turners Wedell Williams Racer National Air Races Mackey stayed Kelly instructor two flew lot together also managed occa sionally reprimanded some stunts put aircraft through Another Dutchs students Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA become Armys first flying ace World War II Early 1943 soon after promotion full colonel Wagner testing P-40N Warhawk Florida killed engine died takeoff 58 Model Aviation ELECTRIC CITABRIA great stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05/0 75 electric power take-offs aerobatics touch goes classic beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts step-by-step instructions complete rolled plans hardware threaded rods formed landing gear spruce spars shear webs 32 oz flying weight lightweight equipment 40 SPAN 275 SQ IN AREA FLAT BOTTOM WING 40 EJNEQUtIE& Electro-Combo includes kit DSC 075 Hyper thrust motor fused switch harness Tamiya style connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller IIAVEY YSTEMS 4 oRPoRATIoN 675 Tower Lane West Chester PA 19380 215 430-8645 number fliers survived enormous odds combat die aircraft accident home early 1940 Dutch contin gent instructors tasked open new flight training section Brooks Field near San Antonio TX flying North Ameri can BC-i aircraft later re placed AT-6 1942 trans ferred Mission TX Further manipulation Dutchs part brought assignment London logged some time Spitfires Hurri canes before being posted North Africa arrived however little late North African invasion Christmas Eve 1942 arrived Algiers signed Jimmy Doolittles Eighth Air Force Headquarters Operations Sec tion no combat-experienced per sonnel staff Dutch made num ber information-gathering trips units seeing action gave him time P-40 P-38 T-6and time Spitfire favorite air craft July 1943 Dutch wangled six weeks TDY temporary duty 325th Fight er Group Tunisia experienced several combat missions P-40s high point Dutch recalls came dam aged 109 duty arranged help Group Commander Major Bob Base ler Dutch arrived detailed fly 3 18th Squadron recep tion squadron mates polite enough noticeably cool hardly needed 29-year-old major combat mission after knocking 109 off tail flight leader third mis sion Dutch suddenly became okay P-40s incidentally replaced P-47s shortly thereafter Jug Doug Champlins Fighter Museum Mesa AZ painted Bob Baselers personal aircraft markings Baseler died 1983 believe taste action apparently whetted Dutchs appetite return TDY applied transfer 325th since senior CO maneuver considered impos sible Always planner Dutch showed Baseler should promoted thereby removing obstacle transfer time P-40s replaced P-47Ds 325th escorted President Roosevelt Cairo Conference during period Since Sicilian Campaign virtually over 325th reassigned 12th Air Force new 15th Air Force first week December 1943 325th moved Soliman Tunisia Fog gia Main Airport Italy Dutch assigned command 325th early April 1944 325th destroyed 133 enemy air craft using P-40s Africa P-47s April 1990 59 4 great companion very popular SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $2995 40 Fly Baby 0 YS Futaba parts close phone 1-800-535-2568 Italy fighter group destroyed 152 ad ditional planes late May P-47 re placed P-S lB C Mustangs used right up until V-E Day final tally 325th 529 enemy air craft destroyed plus 56 probables 88 damaged count did include air craft destroyed ground Dutch named personal aircraft Shimmy came up intrigu ing moniker combining first two let ters daughters name last four wifes name P-Si dis play Wright-Patterson Air Force Mu seum replica Shimmy IV basic 325th markings included red nose yellowand-black checkered tail large num ber side fuselage Dutchs num ber 52 top ace 325th Herschel H Herky Green 18 victories Green now lives Palos Verdes CA Dutch promoted rank full colonel returned United States September 1944 having flown 61 combat missions subsequent assignments routine staff command duty cluded duty Pentagon Air War College Alaska senior advisor Ohio Air National Guard Air Defense Com mand Thule Greenland commander Detroit Air Defense Sector Dutch re tired Air Force 1965 after 30 years active duty served Army Air Corps Army Air Force United States Air Force Dutch put wings away tried real estate action Quite under standably seemed rather dull aviation career ac cepted job line pilot company un der contract Atomic Energy Commis sion Due nature freight hauled required Q clearance highest level activity highly classified Dutch very active few years pilot roster worked hilt stuck because still loved fly company finally lost aircraft pi lot eight passengers cargo because pilot exhaustion 1978 FAA ground ed Dutch after diagnosis vertibro bas ilar insufficiency veteran aviator 46 years flying look back set himself scratch-building some gor geous Scale models three milepost aircraft Waco 10 Buhl Pup course Boeing P-12 Now ripe 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began shared accomplishments over years no doubt helped him achieve paid dues however since young wife immediately put through years anxiety wondering what happening husband something sus pect wife whos husband combat can understand Zimmy truly fine woman daughter Shari lives Tus tin CA senior contracts negotiator administrator Parker-Hannifin Indus tries son Jim AtlanticRichfield Oil Company Dallas TX very poor eyesight has prevented him flying However Jim well known inter national competition pistol range houseful trophies prove Fig ure out - Dutch Zimmy presently live Albu querque NM travel good deal attend Air Corps Air Force get togethers air forces countries fraternity hold multinational court some meetings some cases storytellers find talking about same engagementand may have fired other Much Dutchs story has omitted lack space Id love able share Dutchs vivid account 325ths trip Russia helped make Normandy landings June 6 D-day success diverting Germanys attention also gave lot on-the-spot ac counts explaining confusion yet ex ists concerning activities 325th Fighter Group 332nd sus pect someone will produce movie days will amplify confu sion Finally Dutch has given quantity detail Bull Pup thats just waiting antique buffs Per haps another day Writing article has something nostalgia trip Dutch knight skies eyes Il-year-old Fiftyone years later still During course long aviation career Dutch flew different types aircraft both civilian military list follows includes nearly type aircraft distinguished gentleman piloted Civilian aircraft included AeroCom mander 520 Aeronca C-3 Beech Bar Bonanza Twin Bonanza Beech 18 Queenair Mentor T-34 Westwind Bellanca 300 BuhI Bull Pup Cessna 172 182 206 320 Curtiss Fledgling Robin OX-5 DeHavil land Moth Twin Otter vener able Douglas DC-3 Fairchild 22 Fleet Warner Piper Aztec Commanche Navajo TnPacer Rearwin Jr Spartan C- 3 TravelAire E-4000 Waco 10 OX-5 Military aircraft included Beech AT7 AT-il C-45F H Boeing B-17 P-12B C D E F Cessna AT-8 17 U-3A Consolidated PT-3 lC D BT 7 PB-2A Consolidated Vultee L 5A Convair F-102A TF-102A F 106B Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Curtiss A-3B A-12 0-1G 0-39 0-52 P-IC F P 6E P-36A C variants P-40 Douglas BT-2 A-26B B-18 B-18A C-47A B D C-54D O-25A 0-35 0-43 DeHavilland L-20A Fairchild PT 19A C-61A Hawker Hurricane Fokker C-14A Keystone B-3A B 4A B-5A B-6A Lockheed T-33A CContinued page 163 AIR WOLF EPOXY FIBERGLASS FUSELAGES TAKES MOST 50-60 MECHANICS OTHER MODELS AVAILABLE LARRY JOLLY MODEL PRODUCTS $21000 5501 WCOMO SANTA ANA CALIFORNIA 92703 714 826-6861 scale documentation Bell 204 model its work car speak Nonetheless its easy achieve final product detailed Mikes Hucy As can see Mike true craftsman Unfortunately particular model badly damaged Tan gerine Rot Mike bouncing back getting ready Nats right now Mike wish lot luck anxious see Nats model Please keep us posted interested Im contacting Bill Curtis get information various blades products Ill get update recent talk John Gorham brought up speed happenings GMP According John Americanization GMP complete including new main gear tail rotor gear box cooling shroud Thats lot tooling say necessity mother GMP able reach its goals short three months John says UMP kits stock Rebel entertaining large following John also mentioned new 40-size full-house machine make its debut Toledo Tentatively called Viper new Helicopter features light weight full aerobatic performance Im sorry column going short month Ive recently very busy large ducted-fan model Boeing 737-200 movie Im just now getting life back tofor mewhat normal would however like thank reading column have questions photos Helicopt ers dont drop line Ill sure try publish BCNU Dutch/Lehmberg Continued page 61 40A P-38G L F-80A B C Hudson Martin B-b B-lOB B-12 McDon nell F-lO1F North American BT-9B BC-i AT-6 6A through C A-36A B 25C H J P-51B D H Northrop A17 Piasecki H-21 Republic P-47C D N F-84E Severski BT-8 P 35 Supermarine Spitfire Va Vb Stearman PT-17 St Louis C&F PT15 Thomas-Morse O-19B C E Verville PT-bC Vultee BT 13A BTL5 Note some airplanes near Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPtR POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS duplicates Beech 18 C-45 AT-7 AT-il same basic airplane Cur tiss A-3B 0-16 differ armament rear seat equipment Vultee BT 13A BT-15 have different power plants etc its quite impressive list man career Thingamabob/Underwood Continued page 65 out dont have land deadstick Determining flight time ever will take some practice part Deciding locate on/off switch does present little problem mount fuselage side youll have demount time change elec tric glow back again put switch firewall under electric motor falls under heading dumb since exercise extreme caution keeping fingers out prop Dont flying Control Line use least 50 ft lengths 018 braided lines model will fly 60-ft lines no trouble Seventy-footers would probably stretch ing limits credibility thing must un less want screw yourself ground fill fuel tank 25 engine will run what seems like jillion hours four ounces fuel quite since flown much Control Line test flew Thingamabob version up about three four minutes dawned filled tank wouldnt know got beautiful fast engine run lasted almost 30 minutes mind-numbing dizzying circular flight Get syringe-type filler measure ounce two start Control Line version remove rudder pushrod servo attach rudder post will induce right turn rudder will keep model out end lines found unnecessary put weight out board wing tip right rudder small amount right thrust engine A monthly publication covering International RC Soaring Scene US $17 yr 21/yr 1st class In Canada/Mexico $22/yr US funds AsIa & Paclf Ic $28/yr US funds Europe UK $28/yr US funds Surface Mall ForeIgn $18/yr US funds RO SOARING DIGEST PO Box 1079 Payson AZ 85547 THE LEADE NEW ES 100 THP DESIGN DIAPRICE 15 16 NEW PROPELLERS CYCLE TAILORED 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The last line four Shimmys P-51D display US Air Force Museum Wright-Patterson Air Force Base OH painted colors 325th Fighter Group Italy 1944 has Colonel Dutch Sluters personal logo Shimmy IV emblazoned side nostalgic look back career friend extraordi nary times people machines intertwined life IT WAS ONE beautiful spring days San Antonio fluffy cumulocir rus clouds scattered like cotton balls in tensely blue sky Seen through eyes 11-year-old sky green lawn made perfect setting colorful dresses floppy hats mothers girlfriends young pilots just graduated As guests made pleasant small talk chatted another cadets dis appeared beyond somber hangars shielded aircraft view young boy listened rumbling explosions aircraft engines came life imagination could see wheel taxi down apron runway angled off toward Duncan Field couple miles distant age 11 easy enough imagine myself stern54 Model Aviation Left Dutch Sluder January 1933 age 18 standing front Waco 10 hed just soloed managed solo just unde two months less eight hours flight time under skillful instruction Don McDonnell Right Shown plane Dutch soloed thats special place heart ever sincethe OX-S-powered Waco 10 photograph taken Austin TX 1933 visaged warriors shoving up goggles gloved hand casting quick glance sky making sure no Fokker Pfalz aircraft peeling out formation strafe helpless aircraft taking off aerodrome below As rumbling voices engines changed roar casual talk ceased Everyone watched sky over hangars first glimpse sons friends sweethearts pulled goggles down over oilstreaked face jammed throttle wide open swift movement As ma chine roared down runway could feel mounting pressure stick wheels lifted off. Junior arent looking right di rection Renee shaking shoulder going miss seeing Dutch fly Back real world saw air planes appear over hangars Instead Spads Camels Bristols Handley Pages Curtiss P-i Boeing P 12 pursuits Curtiss A-3 Attacks ThomasMorse 0-19 Douglas 0-25 observation craft Keystone bombers B-3 through B-6 completed parade yes production line changing almost weekly time didnt know Keystone Dutch looked bombers thought looking tie biggest airplane world would ever see beautiful spring commencement day June 1936 JT Jake Sluder lovely wife Renee thought looked like popular movie star period friends family Theyd invited graduation JT s brother Dutch Air Corps Advanced Flying School Kelly Field TX pilots still rank cadet graduation becom ing second lieutenants about year About year later policy changed graduating cadets immediately became lieu tenants Dutch very busy young man prior landmark day attended Texas University before entering Air Corps having learned fly years before working Stinson Field during summer given Fokker D-7 SE5 both small solid models large 24-in solid pine Curtiss P-i models magnificent age could see difference between good poor craftsmanship addition Dutch provided lot photos still retain inter ested Real Thing now Yes indeed Dutch got started early Real Thing late 1932 tender age 18 began flying lessons OX-S-powered Waco 10 Austin TX home Texas University soloed little under two months less eight hours under skillful instruction Don McDonell university demanded lot Dutchs time effort relatively short time solo indicated sharp wellorganized student excellent instructor what probably case combina tion both During time Dutch would quit eating until saved four dollarswhich thirty minutes flying time Waco walk out airport fly catch ride back campus Hed repeat whole program following week Thats perserverance April 1933 Dutch acquired 10 hours necessary rate solo license #28874 23rd June 1933 obtained private license San Antonio took up first pas senger Travelaire E-4000 owned Dick Hair passenger mother course Thats sterling example mothers faith son Waco 10 quite machine absolutely minimal instrumentation air speed estimated pitch loud ness flying wires reacted slipstream instruments altimeter water temperature/oil temperaApril 1990 55 Dutchs friend mentor Marion P Dick Hair standing front Stinson 1935 time Dick operated flying service Stinson Field serving San Antonio days learned fly Wright Model B 1916 instructor Katherine Stinson 1935 Dutch became Army Air Corps ca det Randolph Field TX photo Dutch Sluder flying suit chute front Boeing PT-li taken June 1935 Upperclassman Dutch Sluder mother Mrs JT Sluder Randolph Field fall 1935 Dutch got pri vate license 1933 mother became first passenger going up him Tray elaire E-4000 owned friend Dick Hair Newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dutch Sluder Langley Field VA June 1937 Hes standing front Curtiss P-6E tached 35th Pursuit Squadron 8th Pur suit Group transferred after doing stint B-la bombers Mitchell Field NY Three Dutchs favorite prewar pursuit ships logged hours planes first Langley Field VA later instructor Kelly Field TX flying aviation greats such aerobatics master Joe Mackey Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA Armys U first combat ace World War II Wagner killed 1943 Florida engine P-40N quit takeoff Above left Curtiss P-i photographed Dutch Kelly Field Above right US Air Force photo Curtiss P-6E Below US Air Force photo Boeing P-12 ture gauges tachometer pretty sleek biplane OX-S engine cowled very neatly no wind screen rear cockpit Dutch says because student rode rear seat lack windscreen permitted him feel slipstream change during slips skids imagine its absence also al lowed instructor make ferocious grim aces rear-seat student goofed Dutchs comment Shortly after first soloed Dutch JT heard some BuhI Pups available Houston new list price around $1300 JT went Houston bought two total $900 pair logged total flying time 15 minutes during de pression no money kind thing friend Texas University Shelby Kritser Amarillo TX bought Pups NC-394Y Sluders kept NC-393Y later years Krister publish Amarillo Globe-Times come owner-operator Tradewinds Airport west Texas town fatally crashed 1966 flying F8F Bearcat air show Al Tuerpe Stinson Field Aer onca C-3 wanted fly Pup Sluders made deal would swap flying time Pup Tuerpes teaching JT fly C-3 plus cost gas trainer JT spent about 10 dollars learning solo Pup truly gentle lady would spin re cover very nicely spin nor mal allowing airplane lose con siderable altitude just turn two Due low-powered Szekely en gine 45 hp other aerobatics within planes capabilities preplanned build up speed As sidelight Dutchs present-day neigh bor Hungarian escaped country 1957 told him correct pronunciation Szekely Say-kai gentleman Dr Derek Pasternak chief medicine Lovelace Clinic Albu querque NM founder clinic Randy Lovelace conducted consid erable research Air Force highaltitude flight died plane crash several years ago Mrs Lovelace fly ing passengers out Aspen CO under marginal weather conditions Flying VFR visual flight rules turned up blind canyon crashed mountainside no survivors characteristic Pup could have better Dutch remembers plane insufficient rudder area performing steep slips intrepid ne Domoers mat uutcn tiew Mitchell Field NY originally volunteered bombers reasoning such experience would easily transfer commercial aviation depression still being felt growing conflict Europe wasnt yet taken seriously left Keystone B-5A B-6A right USAF photo Martin B-b first truly modern metal bombers go service 56 Model Aviation young men liked sideslip sharp angle across fence Stinson Field boun dary kicking rudder dropping three-point landingreal hot shot stuff impress local observers Dutch hastened point out also great way checking landing path avoid hitting Texas jackrabbits indige nous Stinson Field boys noted craft wired lights option installed again depression mea sure bought set lights along couple Model T dashlights il luminate four instruments just Waco 10 hooked Hot Shot battery tiny luggage compartment hind cockpit evening Septem ber 7 1933 two brothers went out Stinson neat Marquette Coupe check out new modification think such auspicious undertaking 19year-old about 60 hours flight time should have date recorded Despite younger years Dutch logged flying hours JT brothers agreed let him take Pup skies first night flight Since too expensive use floodlights Dutch IT prearranged air port manager airport boundary lights would turned Dutch took off dusk remembers watching lights come cruised over San Antonio gath ering twilight city glowing like jewel box beneath him Returning Stinson bold young avi ator began shooting landings guessing ground trying make three-pointers As approached first landing Dutch wished asked mentor Dick Hair some pointers Dick would have told him forget probably feel ground throttle did anyway evening went well two returned next night practice landings Pup lived showed Someone looking out daring young men flying ma chine Marion P Dick Hair operated flying service Stinson Field air port serving San Antonio days Dutch met Dick attending high school Texas Military Academy Almost weekend Dutch classmate would go out Stinson hang around Hairs air craft sometimes finding dollar 10minute ride buddy Dave Hill inciden tally dead shot rubberband spitballs would sit back classroom nail kids front row Perhaps teachers chastised him will feel better learn marks manship paid off later years Dave came Colonel Tex Hill second-ranking combat ace AVG American Volun teer Group Flying Tigers 18-plus vic tories Dick number aircraft including Travelaire E-4000 taught fly Katharine Stinson 1916 Wright Model B return being line boy prepping aircraft washing down flying passengers Dick allowed Dutch han gar space Pup let him build up time Hair aircraft After Dutch got private commer cial licenses putting nearly spare time Dick Hair friend stalled out Pup about 100 ft Dutchs plane out commission flying time harder come 1935 Dutch applied received appointment cadet Randolph Field entered Army Air Corps June ended problem finding time fly About same time something else happened affect course career Woodlawn Lake recreation area lo cated few miles downtown San Anto nio about two miles home matter fact Dutch took time away Stinson Field Ill bet broke went swim Woodlawn Pool cool off Instead met lovely Miss Zimmerman shortly began dat ing As Dutch put time money short supply typical date con sisted What flavor Coke want free movies Breckenridge Park Dutch married Zimmy Galveston three years later story getting ahead cue April 1990 57 Left Spring 1944 Lesina ItalyDutch commander 325th Fighter Group seen sitting cockpit P-47D-16 crew chief S/Sgt Luke Misen heimer Tampa FL Above Dutchs Thunderbolt Shimmy II photographed Lesina Italy 1944 Below Dutch posing battle-weary Jug Note Nazi kill symbol left Dutchs P-SiB Shimmy III photographed Lesina summer 1944 aircraft led 325ths mission Russia June 2-11 1944 Note long-range auxiliary fuel tanks new cadets placed Stage primary training cadets divided four groups Flight through Flight D first three flights equipped Consolidated PT-3 Flight D newer PT-i iD PT-il D brakes instrument panel switches instruments neatly ar ranged PT-3 instruments haphazardly mounted cabanes no brakes sophisticated air plane considered easy fly Dutch assigned Flight D came known push-button pi lots' Dutch made no secret holding Limited Commercial License No 28874 cant imagine having behaved like James Cagney Captains Clouds other hand After completing ground school Dutch three half-hour sessions dual instruc tion PT-i LD Shortly after last ses sion began instructor suddenly closed throttle yelled Forced landing Dutch stopped whatever maneuver doing picking out likely open field set up power-off approach establishing base leg Drawing upon show-off experi ence Stinson deliberately made ap proach little high came off base leg nose-high turning slip fishtailed couple times kill speed ready set down instructor opened throttle made signal return Randolph As Dutch taxied flight line structor told him make couple solo landings Maybe Hollywood still too shabby 1935 Army Air Corps cadets no assurance being placed after graduation Having pump primed pulp mag azines such G-8 Battle Aces Sky Fighters Flying Aces etc Dutch really wanted complete training pursuits However selected bombers figuring multiengine experience would look lot bet ter airline application experience wild pursuit pilot suspect dating Zimmy sparking some prepare future thoughts thats came watching Dutch make flyby Keystone Bomber pretty June day i936 abso lutely certain would never bigger bomber Such mind iiyear-old Though still cadet shavetail lieu tenant Dutch lucky ones job assignment fly beautiful Martin B-lOs Mitchell Field NY B-b first mono plane bomber accepted Air Corps number duty however ceased inspiring after last straw became squadron commanders bombardier found him self doing magazine reading nose B-b some adroit management Dutch ob tained transfer 35th Squadron 8th Pursuit Group Langley Field VA fly ing P-6E PB-2A aircraft Pictures P-6E always show glossy colorful air plane complete hawks talons painted wheel pants craft Dutch flew used dirt fields got muddy rained Since filled pants mud Hawks pants cut open allowing mud thrown out fouled up chance paint talons Dutch took 8mm movie Hawks shows ex posed wheels utilitarian appearance planes looked like well-used work horses Other planes era open wheel pants radial-engine-powered Navy Goshawk Type II export Hawk case pants open deliv ery Curtiss Dutch received gold bar June 1937 became commissioned officer United States Air Corps soon trans ferred back San Antonio Kelly flight instructor Pursuit Section recieved regular commission 1939 Like World War II combat fighter pi lots Dutch made transition pistonto jet-powered aircraft years after war Hes seen F-102 1957 return Kelly Field Dutch saw Dick Hair quite often Flying various types aircraft over Stinson Field visit would occasionally put bit air show within sight field very aer obatic P-i2 Dutch remembers fa vorite maneuver loop double snap roll top did best demonstrate what Hotshot Charley become since BuhI Pup days 1939 accelerated training program based Kelly Field war gun Europe United States acting correct its pilot shortage stu dents special program civilian pi lots given commissions being polished military specifications day Captain Bert Hovey Dutchs section chief told him take couple P-12s check out new lieuten ant Joe Mackey aerobatics two cranked up takeoff Mackey placed himself position Dutchs wing structed headed toward aerobat ics area Dutch glanced over see Mackey doing right should bebut inverted Dutch did well-executed aileron roll turned see companion could match Mackey responded eight-point roll after Dutch front-row seat superb air show Lieutenant Mackey headed aero batics troupe Thirties flown Roscoe Turners Wedell Williams Racer National Air Races Mackey stayed Kelly instructor two flew lot together also managed occa sionally reprimanded some stunts put aircraft through Another Dutchs students Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA become Armys first flying ace World War II Early 1943 soon after promotion full colonel Wagner testing P-40N Warhawk Florida killed engine died takeoff 58 Model Aviation ELECTRIC CITABRIA great stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05/0 75 electric power take-offs aerobatics touch goes classic beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts step-by-step instructions complete rolled plans hardware threaded rods formed landing gear spruce spars shear webs 32 oz flying weight lightweight equipment 40 SPAN 275 SQ IN AREA FLAT BOTTOM WING 40 EJNEQUtIE& Electro-Combo includes kit DSC 075 Hyper thrust motor fused switch harness Tamiya style connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller IIAVEY YSTEMS 4 oRPoRATIoN 675 Tower Lane West Chester PA 19380 215 430-8645 number fliers survived enormous odds combat die aircraft accident home early 1940 Dutch contin gent instructors tasked open new flight training section Brooks Field near San Antonio TX flying North Ameri can BC-i aircraft later re placed AT-6 1942 trans ferred Mission TX Further manipulation Dutchs part brought assignment London logged some time Spitfires Hurri canes before being posted North Africa arrived however little late North African invasion Christmas Eve 1942 arrived Algiers signed Jimmy Doolittles Eighth Air Force Headquarters Operations Sec tion no combat-experienced per sonnel staff Dutch made num ber information-gathering trips units seeing action gave him time P-40 P-38 T-6and time Spitfire favorite air craft July 1943 Dutch wangled six weeks TDY temporary duty 325th Fight er Group Tunisia experienced several combat missions P-40s high point Dutch recalls came dam aged 109 duty arranged help Group Commander Major Bob Base ler Dutch arrived detailed fly 3 18th Squadron recep tion squadron mates polite enough noticeably cool hardly needed 29-year-old major combat mission after knocking 109 off tail flight leader third mis sion Dutch suddenly became okay P-40s incidentally replaced P-47s shortly thereafter Jug Doug Champlins Fighter Museum Mesa AZ painted Bob Baselers personal aircraft markings Baseler died 1983 believe taste action apparently whetted Dutchs appetite return TDY applied transfer 325th since senior CO maneuver considered impos sible Always planner Dutch showed Baseler should promoted thereby removing obstacle transfer time P-40s replaced P-47Ds 325th escorted President Roosevelt Cairo Conference during period Since Sicilian Campaign virtually over 325th reassigned 12th Air Force new 15th Air Force first week December 1943 325th moved Soliman Tunisia Fog gia Main Airport Italy Dutch assigned command 325th early April 1944 325th destroyed 133 enemy air craft using P-40s Africa P-47s April 1990 59 4 great companion very popular SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $2995 40 Fly Baby 0 YS Futaba parts close phone 1-800-535-2568 Italy fighter group destroyed 152 ad ditional planes late May P-47 re placed P-S lB C Mustangs used right up until V-E Day final tally 325th 529 enemy air craft destroyed plus 56 probables 88 damaged count did include air craft destroyed ground Dutch named personal aircraft Shimmy came up intrigu ing moniker combining first two let ters daughters name last four wifes name P-Si dis play Wright-Patterson Air Force Mu seum replica Shimmy IV basic 325th markings included red nose yellowand-black checkered tail large num ber side fuselage Dutchs num ber 52 top ace 325th Herschel H Herky Green 18 victories Green now lives Palos Verdes CA Dutch promoted rank full colonel returned United States September 1944 having flown 61 combat missions subsequent assignments routine staff command duty cluded duty Pentagon Air War College Alaska senior advisor Ohio Air National Guard Air Defense Com mand Thule Greenland commander Detroit Air Defense Sector Dutch re tired Air Force 1965 after 30 years active duty served Army Air Corps Army Air Force United States Air Force Dutch put wings away tried real estate action Quite under standably seemed rather dull aviation career ac cepted job line pilot company un der contract Atomic Energy Commis sion Due nature freight hauled required Q clearance highest level activity highly classified Dutch very active few years pilot roster worked hilt stuck because still loved fly company finally lost aircraft pi lot eight passengers cargo because pilot exhaustion 1978 FAA ground ed Dutch after diagnosis vertibro bas ilar insufficiency veteran aviator 46 years flying look back set himself scratch-building some gor geous Scale models three milepost aircraft Waco 10 Buhl Pup course Boeing P-12 Now ripe 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began shared accomplishments over years no doubt helped him achieve paid dues however since young wife immediately put through years anxiety wondering what happening husband something sus pect wife whos husband combat can understand Zimmy truly fine woman daughter Shari lives Tus tin CA senior contracts negotiator administrator Parker-Hannifin Indus tries son Jim AtlanticRichfield Oil Company Dallas TX very poor eyesight has prevented him flying However Jim well known inter national competition pistol range houseful trophies prove Fig ure out - Dutch Zimmy presently live Albu querque NM travel good deal attend Air Corps Air Force get togethers air forces countries fraternity hold multinational court some meetings some cases storytellers find talking about same engagementand may have fired other Much Dutchs story has omitted lack space Id love able share Dutchs vivid account 325ths trip Russia helped make Normandy landings June 6 D-day success diverting Germanys attention also gave lot on-the-spot ac counts explaining confusion yet ex ists concerning activities 325th Fighter Group 332nd sus pect someone will produce movie days will amplify confu sion Finally Dutch has given quantity detail Bull Pup thats just waiting antique buffs Per haps another day Writing article has something nostalgia trip Dutch knight skies eyes Il-year-old Fiftyone years later still During course long aviation career Dutch flew different types aircraft both civilian military list follows includes nearly type aircraft distinguished gentleman piloted Civilian aircraft included AeroCom mander 520 Aeronca C-3 Beech Bar Bonanza Twin Bonanza Beech 18 Queenair Mentor T-34 Westwind Bellanca 300 BuhI Bull Pup Cessna 172 182 206 320 Curtiss Fledgling Robin OX-5 DeHavil land Moth Twin Otter vener able Douglas DC-3 Fairchild 22 Fleet Warner Piper Aztec Commanche Navajo TnPacer Rearwin Jr Spartan C- 3 TravelAire E-4000 Waco 10 OX-5 Military aircraft included Beech AT7 AT-il C-45F H Boeing B-17 P-12B C D E F Cessna AT-8 17 U-3A Consolidated PT-3 lC D BT 7 PB-2A Consolidated Vultee L 5A Convair F-102A TF-102A F 106B Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Curtiss A-3B A-12 0-1G 0-39 0-52 P-IC F P 6E P-36A C variants P-40 Douglas BT-2 A-26B B-18 B-18A C-47A B D C-54D O-25A 0-35 0-43 DeHavilland L-20A Fairchild PT 19A C-61A Hawker Hurricane Fokker C-14A Keystone B-3A B 4A B-5A B-6A Lockheed T-33A CContinued page 163 AIR WOLF EPOXY FIBERGLASS FUSELAGES TAKES MOST 50-60 MECHANICS OTHER MODELS AVAILABLE LARRY JOLLY MODEL PRODUCTS $21000 5501 WCOMO SANTA ANA CALIFORNIA 92703 714 826-6861 scale documentation Bell 204 model its work car speak Nonetheless its easy achieve final product detailed Mikes Hucy As can see Mike true craftsman Unfortunately particular model badly damaged Tan gerine Rot Mike bouncing back getting ready Nats right now Mike wish lot luck anxious see Nats model Please keep us posted interested Im contacting Bill Curtis get information various blades products Ill get update recent talk John Gorham brought up speed happenings GMP According John Americanization GMP complete including new main gear tail rotor gear box cooling shroud Thats lot tooling say necessity mother GMP able reach its goals short three months John says UMP kits stock Rebel entertaining large following John also mentioned new 40-size full-house machine make its debut Toledo Tentatively called Viper new Helicopter features light weight full aerobatic performance Im sorry column going short month Ive recently very busy large ducted-fan model Boeing 737-200 movie Im just now getting life back tofor mewhat normal would however like thank reading column have questions photos Helicopt ers dont drop line Ill sure try publish BCNU Dutch/Lehmberg Continued page 61 40A P-38G L F-80A B C Hudson Martin B-b B-lOB B-12 McDon nell F-lO1F North American BT-9B BC-i AT-6 6A through C A-36A B 25C H J P-51B D H Northrop A17 Piasecki H-21 Republic P-47C D N F-84E Severski BT-8 P 35 Supermarine Spitfire Va Vb Stearman PT-17 St Louis C&F PT15 Thomas-Morse O-19B C E Verville PT-bC Vultee BT 13A BTL5 Note some airplanes near Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPtR POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS duplicates Beech 18 C-45 AT-7 AT-il same basic airplane Cur tiss A-3B 0-16 differ armament rear seat equipment Vultee BT 13A BT-15 have different power plants etc its quite impressive list man career Thingamabob/Underwood Continued page 65 out dont have land deadstick Determining flight time ever will take some practice part Deciding locate on/off switch does present little problem mount fuselage side youll have demount time change elec tric glow back again put switch firewall under electric motor falls under heading dumb since exercise extreme caution keeping fingers out prop Dont flying Control Line use least 50 ft lengths 018 braided lines model will fly 60-ft lines no trouble Seventy-footers would probably stretch ing limits credibility thing must un less want screw yourself ground fill fuel tank 25 engine will run what seems like jillion hours four ounces fuel quite since flown much Control Line test flew Thingamabob version up about three four minutes dawned filled tank wouldnt know got beautiful fast engine run lasted almost 30 minutes mind-numbing dizzying circular flight Get syringe-type filler measure ounce two start Control Line version remove rudder pushrod servo attach rudder post will induce right turn rudder will keep model out end lines found unnecessary put weight out board wing tip right rudder small amount right thrust engine A monthly publication covering International RC Soaring Scene US $17 yr 21/yr 1st class In Canada/Mexico $22/yr US funds AsIa & Paclf Ic $28/yr US funds Europe UK $28/yr US funds Surface Mall ForeIgn $18/yr US funds RO SOARING DIGEST PO Box 1079 Payson AZ 85547 THE LEADE NEW ES 100 THP DESIGN DIAPRICE 15 16 NEW PROPELLERS CYCLE TAILORED 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The last line four Shimmys P-51D display US Air Force Museum Wright-Patterson Air Force Base OH painted colors 325th Fighter Group Italy 1944 has Colonel Dutch Sluters personal logo Shimmy IV emblazoned side nostalgic look back career friend extraordi nary times people machines intertwined life IT WAS ONE beautiful spring days San Antonio fluffy cumulocir rus clouds scattered like cotton balls in tensely blue sky Seen through eyes 11-year-old sky green lawn made perfect setting colorful dresses floppy hats mothers girlfriends young pilots just graduated As guests made pleasant small talk chatted another cadets dis appeared beyond somber hangars shielded aircraft view young boy listened rumbling explosions aircraft engines came life imagination could see wheel taxi down apron runway angled off toward Duncan Field couple miles distant age 11 easy enough imagine myself stern54 Model Aviation Left Dutch Sluder January 1933 age 18 standing front Waco 10 hed just soloed managed solo just unde two months less eight hours flight time under skillful instruction Don McDonnell Right Shown plane Dutch soloed thats special place heart ever sincethe OX-S-powered Waco 10 photograph taken Austin TX 1933 visaged warriors shoving up goggles gloved hand casting quick glance sky making sure no Fokker Pfalz aircraft peeling out formation strafe helpless aircraft taking off aerodrome below As rumbling voices engines changed roar casual talk ceased Everyone watched sky over hangars first glimpse sons friends sweethearts pulled goggles down over oilstreaked face jammed throttle wide open swift movement As ma chine roared down runway could feel mounting pressure stick wheels lifted off. Junior arent looking right di rection Renee shaking shoulder going miss seeing Dutch fly Back real world saw air planes appear over hangars Instead Spads Camels Bristols Handley Pages Curtiss P-i Boeing P 12 pursuits Curtiss A-3 Attacks ThomasMorse 0-19 Douglas 0-25 observation craft Keystone bombers B-3 through B-6 completed parade yes production line changing almost weekly time didnt know Keystone Dutch looked bombers thought looking tie biggest airplane world would ever see beautiful spring commencement day June 1936 JT Jake Sluder lovely wife Renee thought looked like popular movie star period friends family Theyd invited graduation JT s brother Dutch Air Corps Advanced Flying School Kelly Field TX pilots still rank cadet graduation becom ing second lieutenants about year About year later policy changed graduating cadets immediately became lieu tenants Dutch very busy young man prior landmark day attended Texas University before entering Air Corps having learned fly years before working Stinson Field during summer given Fokker D-7 SE5 both small solid models large 24-in solid pine Curtiss P-i models magnificent age could see difference between good poor craftsmanship addition Dutch provided lot photos still retain inter ested Real Thing now Yes indeed Dutch got started early Real Thing late 1932 tender age 18 began flying lessons OX-S-powered Waco 10 Austin TX home Texas University soloed little under two months less eight hours under skillful instruction Don McDonell university demanded lot Dutchs time effort relatively short time solo indicated sharp wellorganized student excellent instructor what probably case combina tion both During time Dutch would quit eating until saved four dollarswhich thirty minutes flying time Waco walk out airport fly catch ride back campus Hed repeat whole program following week Thats perserverance April 1933 Dutch acquired 10 hours necessary rate solo license #28874 23rd June 1933 obtained private license San Antonio took up first pas senger Travelaire E-4000 owned Dick Hair passenger mother course Thats sterling example mothers faith son Waco 10 quite machine absolutely minimal instrumentation air speed estimated pitch loud ness flying wires reacted slipstream instruments altimeter water temperature/oil temperaApril 1990 55 Dutchs friend mentor Marion P Dick Hair standing front Stinson 1935 time Dick operated flying service Stinson Field serving San Antonio days learned fly Wright Model B 1916 instructor Katherine Stinson 1935 Dutch became Army Air Corps ca det Randolph Field TX photo Dutch Sluder flying suit chute front Boeing PT-li taken June 1935 Upperclassman Dutch Sluder mother Mrs JT Sluder Randolph Field fall 1935 Dutch got pri vate license 1933 mother became first passenger going up him Tray elaire E-4000 owned friend Dick Hair Newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dutch Sluder Langley Field VA June 1937 Hes standing front Curtiss P-6E tached 35th Pursuit Squadron 8th Pur suit Group transferred after doing stint B-la bombers Mitchell Field NY Three Dutchs favorite prewar pursuit ships logged hours planes first Langley Field VA later instructor Kelly Field TX flying aviation greats such aerobatics master Joe Mackey Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA Armys U first combat ace World War II Wagner killed 1943 Florida engine P-40N quit takeoff Above left Curtiss P-i photographed Dutch Kelly Field Above right US Air Force photo Curtiss P-6E Below US Air Force photo Boeing P-12 ture gauges tachometer pretty sleek biplane OX-S engine cowled very neatly no wind screen rear cockpit Dutch says because student rode rear seat lack windscreen permitted him feel slipstream change during slips skids imagine its absence also al lowed instructor make ferocious grim aces rear-seat student goofed Dutchs comment Shortly after first soloed Dutch JT heard some BuhI Pups available Houston new list price around $1300 JT went Houston bought two total $900 pair logged total flying time 15 minutes during de pression no money kind thing friend Texas University Shelby Kritser Amarillo TX bought Pups NC-394Y Sluders kept NC-393Y later years Krister publish Amarillo Globe-Times come owner-operator Tradewinds Airport west Texas town fatally crashed 1966 flying F8F Bearcat air show Al Tuerpe Stinson Field Aer onca C-3 wanted fly Pup Sluders made deal would swap flying time Pup Tuerpes teaching JT fly C-3 plus cost gas trainer JT spent about 10 dollars learning solo Pup truly gentle lady would spin re cover very nicely spin nor mal allowing airplane lose con siderable altitude just turn two Due low-powered Szekely en gine 45 hp other aerobatics within planes capabilities preplanned build up speed As sidelight Dutchs present-day neigh bor Hungarian escaped country 1957 told him correct pronunciation Szekely Say-kai gentleman Dr Derek Pasternak chief medicine Lovelace Clinic Albu querque NM founder clinic Randy Lovelace conducted consid erable research Air Force highaltitude flight died plane crash several years ago Mrs Lovelace fly ing passengers out Aspen CO under marginal weather conditions Flying VFR visual flight rules turned up blind canyon crashed mountainside no survivors characteristic Pup could have better Dutch remembers plane insufficient rudder area performing steep slips intrepid ne Domoers mat uutcn tiew Mitchell Field NY originally volunteered bombers reasoning such experience would easily transfer commercial aviation depression still being felt growing conflict Europe wasnt yet taken seriously left Keystone B-5A B-6A right USAF photo Martin B-b first truly modern metal bombers go service 56 Model Aviation young men liked sideslip sharp angle across fence Stinson Field boun dary kicking rudder dropping three-point landingreal hot shot stuff impress local observers Dutch hastened point out also great way checking landing path avoid hitting Texas jackrabbits indige nous Stinson Field boys noted craft wired lights option installed again depression mea sure bought set lights along couple Model T dashlights il luminate four instruments just Waco 10 hooked Hot Shot battery tiny luggage compartment hind cockpit evening Septem ber 7 1933 two brothers went out Stinson neat Marquette Coupe check out new modification think such auspicious undertaking 19year-old about 60 hours flight time should have date recorded Despite younger years Dutch logged flying hours JT brothers agreed let him take Pup skies first night flight Since too expensive use floodlights Dutch IT prearranged air port manager airport boundary lights would turned Dutch took off dusk remembers watching lights come cruised over San Antonio gath ering twilight city glowing like jewel box beneath him Returning Stinson bold young avi ator began shooting landings guessing ground trying make three-pointers As approached first landing Dutch wished asked mentor Dick Hair some pointers Dick would have told him forget probably feel ground throttle did anyway evening went well two returned next night practice landings Pup lived showed Someone looking out daring young men flying ma chine Marion P Dick Hair operated flying service Stinson Field air port serving San Antonio days Dutch met Dick attending high school Texas Military Academy Almost weekend Dutch classmate would go out Stinson hang around Hairs air craft sometimes finding dollar 10minute ride buddy Dave Hill inciden tally dead shot rubberband spitballs would sit back classroom nail kids front row Perhaps teachers chastised him will feel better learn marks manship paid off later years Dave came Colonel Tex Hill second-ranking combat ace AVG American Volun teer Group Flying Tigers 18-plus vic tories Dick number aircraft including Travelaire E-4000 taught fly Katharine Stinson 1916 Wright Model B return being line boy prepping aircraft washing down flying passengers Dick allowed Dutch han gar space Pup let him build up time Hair aircraft After Dutch got private commer cial licenses putting nearly spare time Dick Hair friend stalled out Pup about 100 ft Dutchs plane out commission flying time harder come 1935 Dutch applied received appointment cadet Randolph Field entered Army Air Corps June ended problem finding time fly About same time something else happened affect course career Woodlawn Lake recreation area lo cated few miles downtown San Anto nio about two miles home matter fact Dutch took time away Stinson Field Ill bet broke went swim Woodlawn Pool cool off Instead met lovely Miss Zimmerman shortly began dat ing As Dutch put time money short supply typical date con sisted What flavor Coke want free movies Breckenridge Park Dutch married Zimmy Galveston three years later story getting ahead cue April 1990 57 Left Spring 1944 Lesina ItalyDutch commander 325th Fighter Group seen sitting cockpit P-47D-16 crew chief S/Sgt Luke Misen heimer Tampa FL Above Dutchs Thunderbolt Shimmy II photographed Lesina Italy 1944 Below Dutch posing battle-weary Jug Note Nazi kill symbol left Dutchs P-SiB Shimmy III photographed Lesina summer 1944 aircraft led 325ths mission Russia June 2-11 1944 Note long-range auxiliary fuel tanks new cadets placed Stage primary training cadets divided four groups Flight through Flight D first three flights equipped Consolidated PT-3 Flight D newer PT-i iD PT-il D brakes instrument panel switches instruments neatly ar ranged PT-3 instruments haphazardly mounted cabanes no brakes sophisticated air plane considered easy fly Dutch assigned Flight D came known push-button pi lots' Dutch made no secret holding Limited Commercial License No 28874 cant imagine having behaved like James Cagney Captains Clouds other hand After completing ground school Dutch three half-hour sessions dual instruc tion PT-i LD Shortly after last ses sion began instructor suddenly closed throttle yelled Forced landing Dutch stopped whatever maneuver doing picking out likely open field set up power-off approach establishing base leg Drawing upon show-off experi ence Stinson deliberately made ap proach little high came off base leg nose-high turning slip fishtailed couple times kill speed ready set down instructor opened throttle made signal return Randolph As Dutch taxied flight line structor told him make couple solo landings Maybe Hollywood still too shabby 1935 Army Air Corps cadets no assurance being placed after graduation Having pump primed pulp mag azines such G-8 Battle Aces Sky Fighters Flying Aces etc Dutch really wanted complete training pursuits However selected bombers figuring multiengine experience would look lot bet ter airline application experience wild pursuit pilot suspect dating Zimmy sparking some prepare future thoughts thats came watching Dutch make flyby Keystone Bomber pretty June day i936 abso lutely certain would never bigger bomber Such mind iiyear-old Though still cadet shavetail lieu tenant Dutch lucky ones job assignment fly beautiful Martin B-lOs Mitchell Field NY B-b first mono plane bomber accepted Air Corps number duty however ceased inspiring after last straw became squadron commanders bombardier found him self doing magazine reading nose B-b some adroit management Dutch ob tained transfer 35th Squadron 8th Pursuit Group Langley Field VA fly ing P-6E PB-2A aircraft Pictures P-6E always show glossy colorful air plane complete hawks talons painted wheel pants craft Dutch flew used dirt fields got muddy rained Since filled pants mud Hawks pants cut open allowing mud thrown out fouled up chance paint talons Dutch took 8mm movie Hawks shows ex posed wheels utilitarian appearance planes looked like well-used work horses Other planes era open wheel pants radial-engine-powered Navy Goshawk Type II export Hawk case pants open deliv ery Curtiss Dutch received gold bar June 1937 became commissioned officer United States Air Corps soon trans ferred back San Antonio Kelly flight instructor Pursuit Section recieved regular commission 1939 Like World War II combat fighter pi lots Dutch made transition pistonto jet-powered aircraft years after war Hes seen F-102 1957 return Kelly Field Dutch saw Dick Hair quite often Flying various types aircraft over Stinson Field visit would occasionally put bit air show within sight field very aer obatic P-i2 Dutch remembers fa vorite maneuver loop double snap roll top did best demonstrate what Hotshot Charley become since BuhI Pup days 1939 accelerated training program based Kelly Field war gun Europe United States acting correct its pilot shortage stu dents special program civilian pi lots given commissions being polished military specifications day Captain Bert Hovey Dutchs section chief told him take couple P-12s check out new lieuten ant Joe Mackey aerobatics two cranked up takeoff Mackey placed himself position Dutchs wing structed headed toward aerobat ics area Dutch glanced over see Mackey doing right should bebut inverted Dutch did well-executed aileron roll turned see companion could match Mackey responded eight-point roll after Dutch front-row seat superb air show Lieutenant Mackey headed aero batics troupe Thirties flown Roscoe Turners Wedell Williams Racer National Air Races Mackey stayed Kelly instructor two flew lot together also managed occa sionally reprimanded some stunts put aircraft through Another Dutchs students Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA become Armys first flying ace World War II Early 1943 soon after promotion full colonel Wagner testing P-40N Warhawk Florida killed engine died takeoff 58 Model Aviation ELECTRIC CITABRIA great stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05/0 75 electric power take-offs aerobatics touch goes classic beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts step-by-step instructions complete rolled plans hardware threaded rods formed landing gear spruce spars shear webs 32 oz flying weight lightweight equipment 40 SPAN 275 SQ IN AREA FLAT BOTTOM WING 40 EJNEQUtIE& Electro-Combo includes kit DSC 075 Hyper thrust motor fused switch harness Tamiya style connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller IIAVEY YSTEMS 4 oRPoRATIoN 675 Tower Lane West Chester PA 19380 215 430-8645 number fliers survived enormous odds combat die aircraft accident home early 1940 Dutch contin gent instructors tasked open new flight training section Brooks Field near San Antonio TX flying North Ameri can BC-i aircraft later re placed AT-6 1942 trans ferred Mission TX Further manipulation Dutchs part brought assignment London logged some time Spitfires Hurri canes before being posted North Africa arrived however little late North African invasion Christmas Eve 1942 arrived Algiers signed Jimmy Doolittles Eighth Air Force Headquarters Operations Sec tion no combat-experienced per sonnel staff Dutch made num ber information-gathering trips units seeing action gave him time P-40 P-38 T-6and time Spitfire favorite air craft July 1943 Dutch wangled six weeks TDY temporary duty 325th Fight er Group Tunisia experienced several combat missions P-40s high point Dutch recalls came dam aged 109 duty arranged help Group Commander Major Bob Base ler Dutch arrived detailed fly 3 18th Squadron recep tion squadron mates polite enough noticeably cool hardly needed 29-year-old major combat mission after knocking 109 off tail flight leader third mis sion Dutch suddenly became okay P-40s incidentally replaced P-47s shortly thereafter Jug Doug Champlins Fighter Museum Mesa AZ painted Bob Baselers personal aircraft markings Baseler died 1983 believe taste action apparently whetted Dutchs appetite return TDY applied transfer 325th since senior CO maneuver considered impos sible Always planner Dutch showed Baseler should promoted thereby removing obstacle transfer time P-40s replaced P-47Ds 325th escorted President Roosevelt Cairo Conference during period Since Sicilian Campaign virtually over 325th reassigned 12th Air Force new 15th Air Force first week December 1943 325th moved Soliman Tunisia Fog gia Main Airport Italy Dutch assigned command 325th early April 1944 325th destroyed 133 enemy air craft using P-40s Africa P-47s April 1990 59 4 great companion very popular SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $2995 40 Fly Baby 0 YS Futaba parts close phone 1-800-535-2568 Italy fighter group destroyed 152 ad ditional planes late May P-47 re placed P-S lB C Mustangs used right up until V-E Day final tally 325th 529 enemy air craft destroyed plus 56 probables 88 damaged count did include air craft destroyed ground Dutch named personal aircraft Shimmy came up intrigu ing moniker combining first two let ters daughters name last four wifes name P-Si dis play Wright-Patterson Air Force Mu seum replica Shimmy IV basic 325th markings included red nose yellowand-black checkered tail large num ber side fuselage Dutchs num ber 52 top ace 325th Herschel H Herky Green 18 victories Green now lives Palos Verdes CA Dutch promoted rank full colonel returned United States September 1944 having flown 61 combat missions subsequent assignments routine staff command duty cluded duty Pentagon Air War College Alaska senior advisor Ohio Air National Guard Air Defense Com mand Thule Greenland commander Detroit Air Defense Sector Dutch re tired Air Force 1965 after 30 years active duty served Army Air Corps Army Air Force United States Air Force Dutch put wings away tried real estate action Quite under standably seemed rather dull aviation career ac cepted job line pilot company un der contract Atomic Energy Commis sion Due nature freight hauled required Q clearance highest level activity highly classified Dutch very active few years pilot roster worked hilt stuck because still loved fly company finally lost aircraft pi lot eight passengers cargo because pilot exhaustion 1978 FAA ground ed Dutch after diagnosis vertibro bas ilar insufficiency veteran aviator 46 years flying look back set himself scratch-building some gor geous Scale models three milepost aircraft Waco 10 Buhl Pup course Boeing P-12 Now ripe 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began shared accomplishments over years no doubt helped him achieve paid dues however since young wife immediately put through years anxiety wondering what happening husband something sus pect wife whos husband combat can understand Zimmy truly fine woman daughter Shari lives Tus tin CA senior contracts negotiator administrator Parker-Hannifin Indus tries son Jim AtlanticRichfield Oil Company Dallas TX very poor eyesight has prevented him flying However Jim well known inter national competition pistol range houseful trophies prove Fig ure out - Dutch Zimmy presently live Albu querque NM travel good deal attend Air Corps Air Force get togethers air forces countries fraternity hold multinational court some meetings some cases storytellers find talking about same engagementand may have fired other Much Dutchs story has omitted lack space Id love able share Dutchs vivid account 325ths trip Russia helped make Normandy landings June 6 D-day success diverting Germanys attention also gave lot on-the-spot ac counts explaining confusion yet ex ists concerning activities 325th Fighter Group 332nd sus pect someone will produce movie days will amplify confu sion Finally Dutch has given quantity detail Bull Pup thats just waiting antique buffs Per haps another day Writing article has something nostalgia trip Dutch knight skies eyes Il-year-old Fiftyone years later still During course long aviation career Dutch flew different types aircraft both civilian military list follows includes nearly type aircraft distinguished gentleman piloted Civilian aircraft included AeroCom mander 520 Aeronca C-3 Beech Bar Bonanza Twin Bonanza Beech 18 Queenair Mentor T-34 Westwind Bellanca 300 BuhI Bull Pup Cessna 172 182 206 320 Curtiss Fledgling Robin OX-5 DeHavil land Moth Twin Otter vener able Douglas DC-3 Fairchild 22 Fleet Warner Piper Aztec Commanche Navajo TnPacer Rearwin Jr Spartan C- 3 TravelAire E-4000 Waco 10 OX-5 Military aircraft included Beech AT7 AT-il C-45F H Boeing B-17 P-12B C D E F Cessna AT-8 17 U-3A Consolidated PT-3 lC D BT 7 PB-2A Consolidated Vultee L 5A Convair F-102A TF-102A F 106B Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Curtiss A-3B A-12 0-1G 0-39 0-52 P-IC F P 6E P-36A C variants P-40 Douglas BT-2 A-26B B-18 B-18A C-47A B D C-54D O-25A 0-35 0-43 DeHavilland L-20A Fairchild PT 19A C-61A Hawker Hurricane Fokker C-14A Keystone B-3A B 4A B-5A B-6A Lockheed T-33A CContinued page 163 AIR WOLF EPOXY FIBERGLASS FUSELAGES TAKES MOST 50-60 MECHANICS OTHER MODELS AVAILABLE LARRY JOLLY MODEL PRODUCTS $21000 5501 WCOMO SANTA ANA CALIFORNIA 92703 714 826-6861 scale documentation Bell 204 model its work car speak Nonetheless its easy achieve final product detailed Mikes Hucy As can see Mike true craftsman Unfortunately particular model badly damaged Tan gerine Rot Mike bouncing back getting ready Nats right now Mike wish lot luck anxious see Nats model Please keep us posted interested Im contacting Bill Curtis get information various blades products Ill get update recent talk John Gorham brought up speed happenings GMP According John Americanization GMP complete including new main gear tail rotor gear box cooling shroud Thats lot tooling say necessity mother GMP able reach its goals short three months John says UMP kits stock Rebel entertaining large following John also mentioned new 40-size full-house machine make its debut Toledo Tentatively called Viper new Helicopter features light weight full aerobatic performance Im sorry column going short month Ive recently very busy large ducted-fan model Boeing 737-200 movie Im just now getting life back tofor mewhat normal would however like thank reading column have questions photos Helicopt ers dont drop line Ill sure try publish BCNU Dutch/Lehmberg Continued page 61 40A P-38G L F-80A B C Hudson Martin B-b B-lOB B-12 McDon nell F-lO1F North American BT-9B BC-i AT-6 6A through C A-36A B 25C H J P-51B D H Northrop A17 Piasecki H-21 Republic P-47C D N F-84E Severski BT-8 P 35 Supermarine Spitfire Va Vb Stearman PT-17 St Louis C&F PT15 Thomas-Morse O-19B C E Verville PT-bC Vultee BT 13A BTL5 Note some airplanes near Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPtR POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS duplicates Beech 18 C-45 AT-7 AT-il same basic airplane Cur tiss A-3B 0-16 differ armament rear seat equipment Vultee BT 13A BT-15 have different power plants etc its quite impressive list man career Thingamabob/Underwood Continued page 65 out dont have land deadstick Determining flight time ever will take some practice part Deciding locate on/off switch does present little problem mount fuselage side youll have demount time change elec tric glow back again put switch firewall under electric motor falls under heading dumb since exercise extreme caution keeping fingers out prop Dont flying Control Line use least 50 ft lengths 018 braided lines model will fly 60-ft lines no trouble Seventy-footers would probably stretch ing limits credibility thing must un less want screw yourself ground fill fuel tank 25 engine will run what seems like jillion hours four ounces fuel quite since flown much Control Line test flew Thingamabob version up about three four minutes dawned filled tank wouldnt know got beautiful fast engine run lasted almost 30 minutes mind-numbing dizzying circular flight Get syringe-type filler measure ounce two start Control Line version remove rudder pushrod servo attach rudder post will induce right turn rudder will keep model out end lines found unnecessary put weight out board wing tip right rudder small amount right thrust engine A monthly publication covering International RC Soaring Scene US $17 yr 21/yr 1st class In Canada/Mexico $22/yr US funds AsIa & Paclf Ic $28/yr US funds Europe UK $28/yr US funds Surface Mall ForeIgn $18/yr US funds RO SOARING DIGEST PO Box 1079 Payson AZ 85547 THE LEADE NEW ES 100 THP DESIGN DIAPRICE 15 16 NEW PROPELLERS CYCLE TAILORED 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The last line four Shimmys P-51D display US Air Force Museum Wright-Patterson Air Force Base OH painted colors 325th Fighter Group Italy 1944 has Colonel Dutch Sluters personal logo Shimmy IV emblazoned side nostalgic look back career friend extraordi nary times people machines intertwined life IT WAS ONE beautiful spring days San Antonio fluffy cumulocir rus clouds scattered like cotton balls in tensely blue sky Seen through eyes 11-year-old sky green lawn made perfect setting colorful dresses floppy hats mothers girlfriends young pilots just graduated As guests made pleasant small talk chatted another cadets dis appeared beyond somber hangars shielded aircraft view young boy listened rumbling explosions aircraft engines came life imagination could see wheel taxi down apron runway angled off toward Duncan Field couple miles distant age 11 easy enough imagine myself stern54 Model Aviation Left Dutch Sluder January 1933 age 18 standing front Waco 10 hed just soloed managed solo just unde two months less eight hours flight time under skillful instruction Don McDonnell Right Shown plane Dutch soloed thats special place heart ever sincethe OX-S-powered Waco 10 photograph taken Austin TX 1933 visaged warriors shoving up goggles gloved hand casting quick glance sky making sure no Fokker Pfalz aircraft peeling out formation strafe helpless aircraft taking off aerodrome below As rumbling voices engines changed roar casual talk ceased Everyone watched sky over hangars first glimpse sons friends sweethearts pulled goggles down over oilstreaked face jammed throttle wide open swift movement As ma chine roared down runway could feel mounting pressure stick wheels lifted off. Junior arent looking right di rection Renee shaking shoulder going miss seeing Dutch fly Back real world saw air planes appear over hangars Instead Spads Camels Bristols Handley Pages Curtiss P-i Boeing P 12 pursuits Curtiss A-3 Attacks ThomasMorse 0-19 Douglas 0-25 observation craft Keystone bombers B-3 through B-6 completed parade yes production line changing almost weekly time didnt know Keystone Dutch looked bombers thought looking tie biggest airplane world would ever see beautiful spring commencement day June 1936 JT Jake Sluder lovely wife Renee thought looked like popular movie star period friends family Theyd invited graduation JT s brother Dutch Air Corps Advanced Flying School Kelly Field TX pilots still rank cadet graduation becom ing second lieutenants about year About year later policy changed graduating cadets immediately became lieu tenants Dutch very busy young man prior landmark day attended Texas University before entering Air Corps having learned fly years before working Stinson Field during summer given Fokker D-7 SE5 both small solid models large 24-in solid pine Curtiss P-i models magnificent age could see difference between good poor craftsmanship addition Dutch provided lot photos still retain inter ested Real Thing now Yes indeed Dutch got started early Real Thing late 1932 tender age 18 began flying lessons OX-S-powered Waco 10 Austin TX home Texas University soloed little under two months less eight hours under skillful instruction Don McDonell university demanded lot Dutchs time effort relatively short time solo indicated sharp wellorganized student excellent instructor what probably case combina tion both During time Dutch would quit eating until saved four dollarswhich thirty minutes flying time Waco walk out airport fly catch ride back campus Hed repeat whole program following week Thats perserverance April 1933 Dutch acquired 10 hours necessary rate solo license #28874 23rd June 1933 obtained private license San Antonio took up first pas senger Travelaire E-4000 owned Dick Hair passenger mother course Thats sterling example mothers faith son Waco 10 quite machine absolutely minimal instrumentation air speed estimated pitch loud ness flying wires reacted slipstream instruments altimeter water temperature/oil temperaApril 1990 55 Dutchs friend mentor Marion P Dick Hair standing front Stinson 1935 time Dick operated flying service Stinson Field serving San Antonio days learned fly Wright Model B 1916 instructor Katherine Stinson 1935 Dutch became Army Air Corps ca det Randolph Field TX photo Dutch Sluder flying suit chute front Boeing PT-li taken June 1935 Upperclassman Dutch Sluder mother Mrs JT Sluder Randolph Field fall 1935 Dutch got pri vate license 1933 mother became first passenger going up him Tray elaire E-4000 owned friend Dick Hair Newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dutch Sluder Langley Field VA June 1937 Hes standing front Curtiss P-6E tached 35th Pursuit Squadron 8th Pur suit Group transferred after doing stint B-la bombers Mitchell Field NY Three Dutchs favorite prewar pursuit ships logged hours planes first Langley Field VA later instructor Kelly Field TX flying aviation greats such aerobatics master Joe Mackey Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA Armys U first combat ace World War II Wagner killed 1943 Florida engine P-40N quit takeoff Above left Curtiss P-i photographed Dutch Kelly Field Above right US Air Force photo Curtiss P-6E Below US Air Force photo Boeing P-12 ture gauges tachometer pretty sleek biplane OX-S engine cowled very neatly no wind screen rear cockpit Dutch says because student rode rear seat lack windscreen permitted him feel slipstream change during slips skids imagine its absence also al lowed instructor make ferocious grim aces rear-seat student goofed Dutchs comment Shortly after first soloed Dutch JT heard some BuhI Pups available Houston new list price around $1300 JT went Houston bought two total $900 pair logged total flying time 15 minutes during de pression no money kind thing friend Texas University Shelby Kritser Amarillo TX bought Pups NC-394Y Sluders kept NC-393Y later years Krister publish Amarillo Globe-Times come owner-operator Tradewinds Airport west Texas town fatally crashed 1966 flying F8F Bearcat air show Al Tuerpe Stinson Field Aer onca C-3 wanted fly Pup Sluders made deal would swap flying time Pup Tuerpes teaching JT fly C-3 plus cost gas trainer JT spent about 10 dollars learning solo Pup truly gentle lady would spin re cover very nicely spin nor mal allowing airplane lose con siderable altitude just turn two Due low-powered Szekely en gine 45 hp other aerobatics within planes capabilities preplanned build up speed As sidelight Dutchs present-day neigh bor Hungarian escaped country 1957 told him correct pronunciation Szekely Say-kai gentleman Dr Derek Pasternak chief medicine Lovelace Clinic Albu querque NM founder clinic Randy Lovelace conducted consid erable research Air Force highaltitude flight died plane crash several years ago Mrs Lovelace fly ing passengers out Aspen CO under marginal weather conditions Flying VFR visual flight rules turned up blind canyon crashed mountainside no survivors characteristic Pup could have better Dutch remembers plane insufficient rudder area performing steep slips intrepid ne Domoers mat uutcn tiew Mitchell Field NY originally volunteered bombers reasoning such experience would easily transfer commercial aviation depression still being felt growing conflict Europe wasnt yet taken seriously left Keystone B-5A B-6A right USAF photo Martin B-b first truly modern metal bombers go service 56 Model Aviation young men liked sideslip sharp angle across fence Stinson Field boun dary kicking rudder dropping three-point landingreal hot shot stuff impress local observers Dutch hastened point out also great way checking landing path avoid hitting Texas jackrabbits indige nous Stinson Field boys noted craft wired lights option installed again depression mea sure bought set lights along couple Model T dashlights il luminate four instruments just Waco 10 hooked Hot Shot battery tiny luggage compartment hind cockpit evening Septem ber 7 1933 two brothers went out Stinson neat Marquette Coupe check out new modification think such auspicious undertaking 19year-old about 60 hours flight time should have date recorded Despite younger years Dutch logged flying hours JT brothers agreed let him take Pup skies first night flight Since too expensive use floodlights Dutch IT prearranged air port manager airport boundary lights would turned Dutch took off dusk remembers watching lights come cruised over San Antonio gath ering twilight city glowing like jewel box beneath him Returning Stinson bold young avi ator began shooting landings guessing ground trying make three-pointers As approached first landing Dutch wished asked mentor Dick Hair some pointers Dick would have told him forget probably feel ground throttle did anyway evening went well two returned next night practice landings Pup lived showed Someone looking out daring young men flying ma chine Marion P Dick Hair operated flying service Stinson Field air port serving San Antonio days Dutch met Dick attending high school Texas Military Academy Almost weekend Dutch classmate would go out Stinson hang around Hairs air craft sometimes finding dollar 10minute ride buddy Dave Hill inciden tally dead shot rubberband spitballs would sit back classroom nail kids front row Perhaps teachers chastised him will feel better learn marks manship paid off later years Dave came Colonel Tex Hill second-ranking combat ace AVG American Volun teer Group Flying Tigers 18-plus vic tories Dick number aircraft including Travelaire E-4000 taught fly Katharine Stinson 1916 Wright Model B return being line boy prepping aircraft washing down flying passengers Dick allowed Dutch han gar space Pup let him build up time Hair aircraft After Dutch got private commer cial licenses putting nearly spare time Dick Hair friend stalled out Pup about 100 ft Dutchs plane out commission flying time harder come 1935 Dutch applied received appointment cadet Randolph Field entered Army Air Corps June ended problem finding time fly About same time something else happened affect course career Woodlawn Lake recreation area lo cated few miles downtown San Anto nio about two miles home matter fact Dutch took time away Stinson Field Ill bet broke went swim Woodlawn Pool cool off Instead met lovely Miss Zimmerman shortly began dat ing As Dutch put time money short supply typical date con sisted What flavor Coke want free movies Breckenridge Park Dutch married Zimmy Galveston three years later story getting ahead cue April 1990 57 Left Spring 1944 Lesina ItalyDutch commander 325th Fighter Group seen sitting cockpit P-47D-16 crew chief S/Sgt Luke Misen heimer Tampa FL Above Dutchs Thunderbolt Shimmy II photographed Lesina Italy 1944 Below Dutch posing battle-weary Jug Note Nazi kill symbol left Dutchs P-SiB Shimmy III photographed Lesina summer 1944 aircraft led 325ths mission Russia June 2-11 1944 Note long-range auxiliary fuel tanks new cadets placed Stage primary training cadets divided four groups Flight through Flight D first three flights equipped Consolidated PT-3 Flight D newer PT-i iD PT-il D brakes instrument panel switches instruments neatly ar ranged PT-3 instruments haphazardly mounted cabanes no brakes sophisticated air plane considered easy fly Dutch assigned Flight D came known push-button pi lots' Dutch made no secret holding Limited Commercial License No 28874 cant imagine having behaved like James Cagney Captains Clouds other hand After completing ground school Dutch three half-hour sessions dual instruc tion PT-i LD Shortly after last ses sion began instructor suddenly closed throttle yelled Forced landing Dutch stopped whatever maneuver doing picking out likely open field set up power-off approach establishing base leg Drawing upon show-off experi ence Stinson deliberately made ap proach little high came off base leg nose-high turning slip fishtailed couple times kill speed ready set down instructor opened throttle made signal return Randolph As Dutch taxied flight line structor told him make couple solo landings Maybe Hollywood still too shabby 1935 Army Air Corps cadets no assurance being placed after graduation Having pump primed pulp mag azines such G-8 Battle Aces Sky Fighters Flying Aces etc Dutch really wanted complete training pursuits However selected bombers figuring multiengine experience would look lot bet ter airline application experience wild pursuit pilot suspect dating Zimmy sparking some prepare future thoughts thats came watching Dutch make flyby Keystone Bomber pretty June day i936 abso lutely certain would never bigger bomber Such mind iiyear-old Though still cadet shavetail lieu tenant Dutch lucky ones job assignment fly beautiful Martin B-lOs Mitchell Field NY B-b first mono plane bomber accepted Air Corps number duty however ceased inspiring after last straw became squadron commanders bombardier found him self doing magazine reading nose B-b some adroit management Dutch ob tained transfer 35th Squadron 8th Pursuit Group Langley Field VA fly ing P-6E PB-2A aircraft Pictures P-6E always show glossy colorful air plane complete hawks talons painted wheel pants craft Dutch flew used dirt fields got muddy rained Since filled pants mud Hawks pants cut open allowing mud thrown out fouled up chance paint talons Dutch took 8mm movie Hawks shows ex posed wheels utilitarian appearance planes looked like well-used work horses Other planes era open wheel pants radial-engine-powered Navy Goshawk Type II export Hawk case pants open deliv ery Curtiss Dutch received gold bar June 1937 became commissioned officer United States Air Corps soon trans ferred back San Antonio Kelly flight instructor Pursuit Section recieved regular commission 1939 Like World War II combat fighter pi lots Dutch made transition pistonto jet-powered aircraft years after war Hes seen F-102 1957 return Kelly Field Dutch saw Dick Hair quite often Flying various types aircraft over Stinson Field visit would occasionally put bit air show within sight field very aer obatic P-i2 Dutch remembers fa vorite maneuver loop double snap roll top did best demonstrate what Hotshot Charley become since BuhI Pup days 1939 accelerated training program based Kelly Field war gun Europe United States acting correct its pilot shortage stu dents special program civilian pi lots given commissions being polished military specifications day Captain Bert Hovey Dutchs section chief told him take couple P-12s check out new lieuten ant Joe Mackey aerobatics two cranked up takeoff Mackey placed himself position Dutchs wing structed headed toward aerobat ics area Dutch glanced over see Mackey doing right should bebut inverted Dutch did well-executed aileron roll turned see companion could match Mackey responded eight-point roll after Dutch front-row seat superb air show Lieutenant Mackey headed aero batics troupe Thirties flown Roscoe Turners Wedell Williams Racer National Air Races Mackey stayed Kelly instructor two flew lot together also managed occa sionally reprimanded some stunts put aircraft through Another Dutchs students Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA become Armys first flying ace World War II Early 1943 soon after promotion full colonel Wagner testing P-40N Warhawk Florida killed engine died takeoff 58 Model Aviation ELECTRIC CITABRIA great stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05/0 75 electric power take-offs aerobatics touch goes classic beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts step-by-step instructions complete rolled plans hardware threaded rods formed landing gear spruce spars shear webs 32 oz flying weight lightweight equipment 40 SPAN 275 SQ IN AREA FLAT BOTTOM WING 40 EJNEQUtIE& Electro-Combo includes kit DSC 075 Hyper thrust motor fused switch harness Tamiya style connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller IIAVEY YSTEMS 4 oRPoRATIoN 675 Tower Lane West Chester PA 19380 215 430-8645 number fliers survived enormous odds combat die aircraft accident home early 1940 Dutch contin gent instructors tasked open new flight training section Brooks Field near San Antonio TX flying North Ameri can BC-i aircraft later re placed AT-6 1942 trans ferred Mission TX Further manipulation Dutchs part brought assignment London logged some time Spitfires Hurri canes before being posted North Africa arrived however little late North African invasion Christmas Eve 1942 arrived Algiers signed Jimmy Doolittles Eighth Air Force Headquarters Operations Sec tion no combat-experienced per sonnel staff Dutch made num ber information-gathering trips units seeing action gave him time P-40 P-38 T-6and time Spitfire favorite air craft July 1943 Dutch wangled six weeks TDY temporary duty 325th Fight er Group Tunisia experienced several combat missions P-40s high point Dutch recalls came dam aged 109 duty arranged help Group Commander Major Bob Base ler Dutch arrived detailed fly 3 18th Squadron recep tion squadron mates polite enough noticeably cool hardly needed 29-year-old major combat mission after knocking 109 off tail flight leader third mis sion Dutch suddenly became okay P-40s incidentally replaced P-47s shortly thereafter Jug Doug Champlins Fighter Museum Mesa AZ painted Bob Baselers personal aircraft markings Baseler died 1983 believe taste action apparently whetted Dutchs appetite return TDY applied transfer 325th since senior CO maneuver considered impos sible Always planner Dutch showed Baseler should promoted thereby removing obstacle transfer time P-40s replaced P-47Ds 325th escorted President Roosevelt Cairo Conference during period Since Sicilian Campaign virtually over 325th reassigned 12th Air Force new 15th Air Force first week December 1943 325th moved Soliman Tunisia Fog gia Main Airport Italy Dutch assigned command 325th early April 1944 325th destroyed 133 enemy air craft using P-40s Africa P-47s April 1990 59 4 great companion very popular SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $2995 40 Fly Baby 0 YS Futaba parts close phone 1-800-535-2568 Italy fighter group destroyed 152 ad ditional planes late May P-47 re placed P-S lB C Mustangs used right up until V-E Day final tally 325th 529 enemy air craft destroyed plus 56 probables 88 damaged count did include air craft destroyed ground Dutch named personal aircraft Shimmy came up intrigu ing moniker combining first two let ters daughters name last four wifes name P-Si dis play Wright-Patterson Air Force Mu seum replica Shimmy IV basic 325th markings included red nose yellowand-black checkered tail large num ber side fuselage Dutchs num ber 52 top ace 325th Herschel H Herky Green 18 victories Green now lives Palos Verdes CA Dutch promoted rank full colonel returned United States September 1944 having flown 61 combat missions subsequent assignments routine staff command duty cluded duty Pentagon Air War College Alaska senior advisor Ohio Air National Guard Air Defense Com mand Thule Greenland commander Detroit Air Defense Sector Dutch re tired Air Force 1965 after 30 years active duty served Army Air Corps Army Air Force United States Air Force Dutch put wings away tried real estate action Quite under standably seemed rather dull aviation career ac cepted job line pilot company un der contract Atomic Energy Commis sion Due nature freight hauled required Q clearance highest level activity highly classified Dutch very active few years pilot roster worked hilt stuck because still loved fly company finally lost aircraft pi lot eight passengers cargo because pilot exhaustion 1978 FAA ground ed Dutch after diagnosis vertibro bas ilar insufficiency veteran aviator 46 years flying look back set himself scratch-building some gor geous Scale models three milepost aircraft Waco 10 Buhl Pup course Boeing P-12 Now ripe 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began shared accomplishments over years no doubt helped him achieve paid dues however since young wife immediately put through years anxiety wondering what happening husband something sus pect wife whos husband combat can understand Zimmy truly fine woman daughter Shari lives Tus tin CA senior contracts negotiator administrator Parker-Hannifin Indus tries son Jim AtlanticRichfield Oil Company Dallas TX very poor eyesight has prevented him flying However Jim well known inter national competition pistol range houseful trophies prove Fig ure out - Dutch Zimmy presently live Albu querque NM travel good deal attend Air Corps Air Force get togethers air forces countries fraternity hold multinational court some meetings some cases storytellers find talking about same engagementand may have fired other Much Dutchs story has omitted lack space Id love able share Dutchs vivid account 325ths trip Russia helped make Normandy landings June 6 D-day success diverting Germanys attention also gave lot on-the-spot ac counts explaining confusion yet ex ists concerning activities 325th Fighter Group 332nd sus pect someone will produce movie days will amplify confu sion Finally Dutch has given quantity detail Bull Pup thats just waiting antique buffs Per haps another day Writing article has something nostalgia trip Dutch knight skies eyes Il-year-old Fiftyone years later still During course long aviation career Dutch flew different types aircraft both civilian military list follows includes nearly type aircraft distinguished gentleman piloted Civilian aircraft included AeroCom mander 520 Aeronca C-3 Beech Bar Bonanza Twin Bonanza Beech 18 Queenair Mentor T-34 Westwind Bellanca 300 BuhI Bull Pup Cessna 172 182 206 320 Curtiss Fledgling Robin OX-5 DeHavil land Moth Twin Otter vener able Douglas DC-3 Fairchild 22 Fleet Warner Piper Aztec Commanche Navajo TnPacer Rearwin Jr Spartan C- 3 TravelAire E-4000 Waco 10 OX-5 Military aircraft included Beech AT7 AT-il C-45F H Boeing B-17 P-12B C D E F Cessna AT-8 17 U-3A Consolidated PT-3 lC D BT 7 PB-2A Consolidated Vultee L 5A Convair F-102A TF-102A F 106B Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Curtiss A-3B A-12 0-1G 0-39 0-52 P-IC F P 6E P-36A C variants P-40 Douglas BT-2 A-26B B-18 B-18A C-47A B D C-54D O-25A 0-35 0-43 DeHavilland L-20A Fairchild PT 19A C-61A Hawker Hurricane Fokker C-14A Keystone B-3A B 4A B-5A B-6A Lockheed T-33A CContinued page 163 AIR WOLF EPOXY FIBERGLASS FUSELAGES TAKES MOST 50-60 MECHANICS OTHER MODELS AVAILABLE LARRY JOLLY MODEL PRODUCTS $21000 5501 WCOMO SANTA ANA CALIFORNIA 92703 714 826-6861 scale documentation Bell 204 model its work car speak Nonetheless its easy achieve final product detailed Mikes Hucy As can see Mike true craftsman Unfortunately particular model badly damaged Tan gerine Rot Mike bouncing back getting ready Nats right now Mike wish lot luck anxious see Nats model Please keep us posted interested Im contacting Bill Curtis get information various blades products Ill get update recent talk John Gorham brought up speed happenings GMP According John Americanization GMP complete including new main gear tail rotor gear box cooling shroud Thats lot tooling say necessity mother GMP able reach its goals short three months John says UMP kits stock Rebel entertaining large following John also mentioned new 40-size full-house machine make its debut Toledo Tentatively called Viper new Helicopter features light weight full aerobatic performance Im sorry column going short month Ive recently very busy large ducted-fan model Boeing 737-200 movie Im just now getting life back tofor mewhat normal would however like thank reading column have questions photos Helicopt ers dont drop line Ill sure try publish BCNU Dutch/Lehmberg Continued page 61 40A P-38G L F-80A B C Hudson Martin B-b B-lOB B-12 McDon nell F-lO1F North American BT-9B BC-i AT-6 6A through C A-36A B 25C H J P-51B D H Northrop A17 Piasecki H-21 Republic P-47C D N F-84E Severski BT-8 P 35 Supermarine Spitfire Va Vb Stearman PT-17 St Louis C&F PT15 Thomas-Morse O-19B C E Verville PT-bC Vultee BT 13A BTL5 Note some airplanes near Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPtR POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS duplicates Beech 18 C-45 AT-7 AT-il same basic airplane Cur tiss A-3B 0-16 differ armament rear seat equipment Vultee BT 13A BT-15 have different power plants etc its quite impressive list man career Thingamabob/Underwood Continued page 65 out dont have land deadstick Determining flight time ever will take some practice part Deciding locate on/off switch does present little problem mount fuselage side youll have demount time change elec tric glow back again put switch firewall under electric motor falls under heading dumb since exercise extreme caution keeping fingers out prop Dont flying Control Line use least 50 ft lengths 018 braided lines model will fly 60-ft lines no trouble Seventy-footers would probably stretch ing limits credibility thing must un less want screw yourself ground fill fuel tank 25 engine will run what seems like jillion hours four ounces fuel quite since flown much Control Line test flew Thingamabob version up about three four minutes dawned filled tank wouldnt know got beautiful fast engine run lasted almost 30 minutes mind-numbing dizzying circular flight Get syringe-type filler measure ounce two start Control Line version remove rudder pushrod servo attach rudder post will induce right turn rudder will keep model out end lines found unnecessary put weight out board wing tip right rudder small amount right thrust engine A monthly publication covering International RC Soaring Scene US $17 yr 21/yr 1st class In Canada/Mexico $22/yr US funds AsIa & Paclf Ic $28/yr US funds Europe UK $28/yr US funds Surface Mall ForeIgn $18/yr US funds RO SOARING DIGEST PO Box 1079 Payson AZ 85547 THE LEADE NEW ES 100 THP DESIGN DIAPRICE 15 16 NEW PROPELLERS CYCLE TAILORED 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The last line four Shimmys P-51D display US Air Force Museum Wright-Patterson Air Force Base OH painted colors 325th Fighter Group Italy 1944 has Colonel Dutch Sluters personal logo Shimmy IV emblazoned side nostalgic look back career friend extraordi nary times people machines intertwined life IT WAS ONE beautiful spring days San Antonio fluffy cumulocir rus clouds scattered like cotton balls in tensely blue sky Seen through eyes 11-year-old sky green lawn made perfect setting colorful dresses floppy hats mothers girlfriends young pilots just graduated As guests made pleasant small talk chatted another cadets dis appeared beyond somber hangars shielded aircraft view young boy listened rumbling explosions aircraft engines came life imagination could see wheel taxi down apron runway angled off toward Duncan Field couple miles distant age 11 easy enough imagine myself stern54 Model Aviation Left Dutch Sluder January 1933 age 18 standing front Waco 10 hed just soloed managed solo just unde two months less eight hours flight time under skillful instruction Don McDonnell Right Shown plane Dutch soloed thats special place heart ever sincethe OX-S-powered Waco 10 photograph taken Austin TX 1933 visaged warriors shoving up goggles gloved hand casting quick glance sky making sure no Fokker Pfalz aircraft peeling out formation strafe helpless aircraft taking off aerodrome below As rumbling voices engines changed roar casual talk ceased Everyone watched sky over hangars first glimpse sons friends sweethearts pulled goggles down over oilstreaked face jammed throttle wide open swift movement As ma chine roared down runway could feel mounting pressure stick wheels lifted off. Junior arent looking right di rection Renee shaking shoulder going miss seeing Dutch fly Back real world saw air planes appear over hangars Instead Spads Camels Bristols Handley Pages Curtiss P-i Boeing P 12 pursuits Curtiss A-3 Attacks ThomasMorse 0-19 Douglas 0-25 observation craft Keystone bombers B-3 through B-6 completed parade yes production line changing almost weekly time didnt know Keystone Dutch looked bombers thought looking tie biggest airplane world would ever see beautiful spring commencement day June 1936 JT Jake Sluder lovely wife Renee thought looked like popular movie star period friends family Theyd invited graduation JT s brother Dutch Air Corps Advanced Flying School Kelly Field TX pilots still rank cadet graduation becom ing second lieutenants about year About year later policy changed graduating cadets immediately became lieu tenants Dutch very busy young man prior landmark day attended Texas University before entering Air Corps having learned fly years before working Stinson Field during summer given Fokker D-7 SE5 both small solid models large 24-in solid pine Curtiss P-i models magnificent age could see difference between good poor craftsmanship addition Dutch provided lot photos still retain inter ested Real Thing now Yes indeed Dutch got started early Real Thing late 1932 tender age 18 began flying lessons OX-S-powered Waco 10 Austin TX home Texas University soloed little under two months less eight hours under skillful instruction Don McDonell university demanded lot Dutchs time effort relatively short time solo indicated sharp wellorganized student excellent instructor what probably case combina tion both During time Dutch would quit eating until saved four dollarswhich thirty minutes flying time Waco walk out airport fly catch ride back campus Hed repeat whole program following week Thats perserverance April 1933 Dutch acquired 10 hours necessary rate solo license #28874 23rd June 1933 obtained private license San Antonio took up first pas senger Travelaire E-4000 owned Dick Hair passenger mother course Thats sterling example mothers faith son Waco 10 quite machine absolutely minimal instrumentation air speed estimated pitch loud ness flying wires reacted slipstream instruments altimeter water temperature/oil temperaApril 1990 55 Dutchs friend mentor Marion P Dick Hair standing front Stinson 1935 time Dick operated flying service Stinson Field serving San Antonio days learned fly Wright Model B 1916 instructor Katherine Stinson 1935 Dutch became Army Air Corps ca det Randolph Field TX photo Dutch Sluder flying suit chute front Boeing PT-li taken June 1935 Upperclassman Dutch Sluder mother Mrs JT Sluder Randolph Field fall 1935 Dutch got pri vate license 1933 mother became first passenger going up him Tray elaire E-4000 owned friend Dick Hair Newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dutch Sluder Langley Field VA June 1937 Hes standing front Curtiss P-6E tached 35th Pursuit Squadron 8th Pur suit Group transferred after doing stint B-la bombers Mitchell Field NY Three Dutchs favorite prewar pursuit ships logged hours planes first Langley Field VA later instructor Kelly Field TX flying aviation greats such aerobatics master Joe Mackey Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA Armys U first combat ace World War II Wagner killed 1943 Florida engine P-40N quit takeoff Above left Curtiss P-i photographed Dutch Kelly Field Above right US Air Force photo Curtiss P-6E Below US Air Force photo Boeing P-12 ture gauges tachometer pretty sleek biplane OX-S engine cowled very neatly no wind screen rear cockpit Dutch says because student rode rear seat lack windscreen permitted him feel slipstream change during slips skids imagine its absence also al lowed instructor make ferocious grim aces rear-seat student goofed Dutchs comment Shortly after first soloed Dutch JT heard some BuhI Pups available Houston new list price around $1300 JT went Houston bought two total $900 pair logged total flying time 15 minutes during de pression no money kind thing friend Texas University Shelby Kritser Amarillo TX bought Pups NC-394Y Sluders kept NC-393Y later years Krister publish Amarillo Globe-Times come owner-operator Tradewinds Airport west Texas town fatally crashed 1966 flying F8F Bearcat air show Al Tuerpe Stinson Field Aer onca C-3 wanted fly Pup Sluders made deal would swap flying time Pup Tuerpes teaching JT fly C-3 plus cost gas trainer JT spent about 10 dollars learning solo Pup truly gentle lady would spin re cover very nicely spin nor mal allowing airplane lose con siderable altitude just turn two Due low-powered Szekely en gine 45 hp other aerobatics within planes capabilities preplanned build up speed As sidelight Dutchs present-day neigh bor Hungarian escaped country 1957 told him correct pronunciation Szekely Say-kai gentleman Dr Derek Pasternak chief medicine Lovelace Clinic Albu querque NM founder clinic Randy Lovelace conducted consid erable research Air Force highaltitude flight died plane crash several years ago Mrs Lovelace fly ing passengers out Aspen CO under marginal weather conditions Flying VFR visual flight rules turned up blind canyon crashed mountainside no survivors characteristic Pup could have better Dutch remembers plane insufficient rudder area performing steep slips intrepid ne Domoers mat uutcn tiew Mitchell Field NY originally volunteered bombers reasoning such experience would easily transfer commercial aviation depression still being felt growing conflict Europe wasnt yet taken seriously left Keystone B-5A B-6A right USAF photo Martin B-b first truly modern metal bombers go service 56 Model Aviation young men liked sideslip sharp angle across fence Stinson Field boun dary kicking rudder dropping three-point landingreal hot shot stuff impress local observers Dutch hastened point out also great way checking landing path avoid hitting Texas jackrabbits indige nous Stinson Field boys noted craft wired lights option installed again depression mea sure bought set lights along couple Model T dashlights il luminate four instruments just Waco 10 hooked Hot Shot battery tiny luggage compartment hind cockpit evening Septem ber 7 1933 two brothers went out Stinson neat Marquette Coupe check out new modification think such auspicious undertaking 19year-old about 60 hours flight time should have date recorded Despite younger years Dutch logged flying hours JT brothers agreed let him take Pup skies first night flight Since too expensive use floodlights Dutch IT prearranged air port manager airport boundary lights would turned Dutch took off dusk remembers watching lights come cruised over San Antonio gath ering twilight city glowing like jewel box beneath him Returning Stinson bold young avi ator began shooting landings guessing ground trying make three-pointers As approached first landing Dutch wished asked mentor Dick Hair some pointers Dick would have told him forget probably feel ground throttle did anyway evening went well two returned next night practice landings Pup lived showed Someone looking out daring young men flying ma chine Marion P Dick Hair operated flying service Stinson Field air port serving San Antonio days Dutch met Dick attending high school Texas Military Academy Almost weekend Dutch classmate would go out Stinson hang around Hairs air craft sometimes finding dollar 10minute ride buddy Dave Hill inciden tally dead shot rubberband spitballs would sit back classroom nail kids front row Perhaps teachers chastised him will feel better learn marks manship paid off later years Dave came Colonel Tex Hill second-ranking combat ace AVG American Volun teer Group Flying Tigers 18-plus vic tories Dick number aircraft including Travelaire E-4000 taught fly Katharine Stinson 1916 Wright Model B return being line boy prepping aircraft washing down flying passengers Dick allowed Dutch han gar space Pup let him build up time Hair aircraft After Dutch got private commer cial licenses putting nearly spare time Dick Hair friend stalled out Pup about 100 ft Dutchs plane out commission flying time harder come 1935 Dutch applied received appointment cadet Randolph Field entered Army Air Corps June ended problem finding time fly About same time something else happened affect course career Woodlawn Lake recreation area lo cated few miles downtown San Anto nio about two miles home matter fact Dutch took time away Stinson Field Ill bet broke went swim Woodlawn Pool cool off Instead met lovely Miss Zimmerman shortly began dat ing As Dutch put time money short supply typical date con sisted What flavor Coke want free movies Breckenridge Park Dutch married Zimmy Galveston three years later story getting ahead cue April 1990 57 Left Spring 1944 Lesina ItalyDutch commander 325th Fighter Group seen sitting cockpit P-47D-16 crew chief S/Sgt Luke Misen heimer Tampa FL Above Dutchs Thunderbolt Shimmy II photographed Lesina Italy 1944 Below Dutch posing battle-weary Jug Note Nazi kill symbol left Dutchs P-SiB Shimmy III photographed Lesina summer 1944 aircraft led 325ths mission Russia June 2-11 1944 Note long-range auxiliary fuel tanks new cadets placed Stage primary training cadets divided four groups Flight through Flight D first three flights equipped Consolidated PT-3 Flight D newer PT-i iD PT-il D brakes instrument panel switches instruments neatly ar ranged PT-3 instruments haphazardly mounted cabanes no brakes sophisticated air plane considered easy fly Dutch assigned Flight D came known push-button pi lots' Dutch made no secret holding Limited Commercial License No 28874 cant imagine having behaved like James Cagney Captains Clouds other hand After completing ground school Dutch three half-hour sessions dual instruc tion PT-i LD Shortly after last ses sion began instructor suddenly closed throttle yelled Forced landing Dutch stopped whatever maneuver doing picking out likely open field set up power-off approach establishing base leg Drawing upon show-off experi ence Stinson deliberately made ap proach little high came off base leg nose-high turning slip fishtailed couple times kill speed ready set down instructor opened throttle made signal return Randolph As Dutch taxied flight line structor told him make couple solo landings Maybe Hollywood still too shabby 1935 Army Air Corps cadets no assurance being placed after graduation Having pump primed pulp mag azines such G-8 Battle Aces Sky Fighters Flying Aces etc Dutch really wanted complete training pursuits However selected bombers figuring multiengine experience would look lot bet ter airline application experience wild pursuit pilot suspect dating Zimmy sparking some prepare future thoughts thats came watching Dutch make flyby Keystone Bomber pretty June day i936 abso lutely certain would never bigger bomber Such mind iiyear-old Though still cadet shavetail lieu tenant Dutch lucky ones job assignment fly beautiful Martin B-lOs Mitchell Field NY B-b first mono plane bomber accepted Air Corps number duty however ceased inspiring after last straw became squadron commanders bombardier found him self doing magazine reading nose B-b some adroit management Dutch ob tained transfer 35th Squadron 8th Pursuit Group Langley Field VA fly ing P-6E PB-2A aircraft Pictures P-6E always show glossy colorful air plane complete hawks talons painted wheel pants craft Dutch flew used dirt fields got muddy rained Since filled pants mud Hawks pants cut open allowing mud thrown out fouled up chance paint talons Dutch took 8mm movie Hawks shows ex posed wheels utilitarian appearance planes looked like well-used work horses Other planes era open wheel pants radial-engine-powered Navy Goshawk Type II export Hawk case pants open deliv ery Curtiss Dutch received gold bar June 1937 became commissioned officer United States Air Corps soon trans ferred back San Antonio Kelly flight instructor Pursuit Section recieved regular commission 1939 Like World War II combat fighter pi lots Dutch made transition pistonto jet-powered aircraft years after war Hes seen F-102 1957 return Kelly Field Dutch saw Dick Hair quite often Flying various types aircraft over Stinson Field visit would occasionally put bit air show within sight field very aer obatic P-i2 Dutch remembers fa vorite maneuver loop double snap roll top did best demonstrate what Hotshot Charley become since BuhI Pup days 1939 accelerated training program based Kelly Field war gun Europe United States acting correct its pilot shortage stu dents special program civilian pi lots given commissions being polished military specifications day Captain Bert Hovey Dutchs section chief told him take couple P-12s check out new lieuten ant Joe Mackey aerobatics two cranked up takeoff Mackey placed himself position Dutchs wing structed headed toward aerobat ics area Dutch glanced over see Mackey doing right should bebut inverted Dutch did well-executed aileron roll turned see companion could match Mackey responded eight-point roll after Dutch front-row seat superb air show Lieutenant Mackey headed aero batics troupe Thirties flown Roscoe Turners Wedell Williams Racer National Air Races Mackey stayed Kelly instructor two flew lot together also managed occa sionally reprimanded some stunts put aircraft through Another Dutchs students Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA become Armys first flying ace World War II Early 1943 soon after promotion full colonel Wagner testing P-40N Warhawk Florida killed engine died takeoff 58 Model Aviation ELECTRIC CITABRIA great stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05/0 75 electric power take-offs aerobatics touch goes classic beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts step-by-step instructions complete rolled plans hardware threaded rods formed landing gear spruce spars shear webs 32 oz flying weight lightweight equipment 40 SPAN 275 SQ IN AREA FLAT BOTTOM WING 40 EJNEQUtIE& Electro-Combo includes kit DSC 075 Hyper thrust motor fused switch harness Tamiya style connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller IIAVEY YSTEMS 4 oRPoRATIoN 675 Tower Lane West Chester PA 19380 215 430-8645 number fliers survived enormous odds combat die aircraft accident home early 1940 Dutch contin gent instructors tasked open new flight training section Brooks Field near San Antonio TX flying North Ameri can BC-i aircraft later re placed AT-6 1942 trans ferred Mission TX Further manipulation Dutchs part brought assignment London logged some time Spitfires Hurri canes before being posted North Africa arrived however little late North African invasion Christmas Eve 1942 arrived Algiers signed Jimmy Doolittles Eighth Air Force Headquarters Operations Sec tion no combat-experienced per sonnel staff Dutch made num ber information-gathering trips units seeing action gave him time P-40 P-38 T-6and time Spitfire favorite air craft July 1943 Dutch wangled six weeks TDY temporary duty 325th Fight er Group Tunisia experienced several combat missions P-40s high point Dutch recalls came dam aged 109 duty arranged help Group Commander Major Bob Base ler Dutch arrived detailed fly 3 18th Squadron recep tion squadron mates polite enough noticeably cool hardly needed 29-year-old major combat mission after knocking 109 off tail flight leader third mis sion Dutch suddenly became okay P-40s incidentally replaced P-47s shortly thereafter Jug Doug Champlins Fighter Museum Mesa AZ painted Bob Baselers personal aircraft markings Baseler died 1983 believe taste action apparently whetted Dutchs appetite return TDY applied transfer 325th since senior CO maneuver considered impos sible Always planner Dutch showed Baseler should promoted thereby removing obstacle transfer time P-40s replaced P-47Ds 325th escorted President Roosevelt Cairo Conference during period Since Sicilian Campaign virtually over 325th reassigned 12th Air Force new 15th Air Force first week December 1943 325th moved Soliman Tunisia Fog gia Main Airport Italy Dutch assigned command 325th early April 1944 325th destroyed 133 enemy air craft using P-40s Africa P-47s April 1990 59 4 great companion very popular SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $2995 40 Fly Baby 0 YS Futaba parts close phone 1-800-535-2568 Italy fighter group destroyed 152 ad ditional planes late May P-47 re placed P-S lB C Mustangs used right up until V-E Day final tally 325th 529 enemy air craft destroyed plus 56 probables 88 damaged count did include air craft destroyed ground Dutch named personal aircraft Shimmy came up intrigu ing moniker combining first two let ters daughters name last four wifes name P-Si dis play Wright-Patterson Air Force Mu seum replica Shimmy IV basic 325th markings included red nose yellowand-black checkered tail large num ber side fuselage Dutchs num ber 52 top ace 325th Herschel H Herky Green 18 victories Green now lives Palos Verdes CA Dutch promoted rank full colonel returned United States September 1944 having flown 61 combat missions subsequent assignments routine staff command duty cluded duty Pentagon Air War College Alaska senior advisor Ohio Air National Guard Air Defense Com mand Thule Greenland commander Detroit Air Defense Sector Dutch re tired Air Force 1965 after 30 years active duty served Army Air Corps Army Air Force United States Air Force Dutch put wings away tried real estate action Quite under standably seemed rather dull aviation career ac cepted job line pilot company un der contract Atomic Energy Commis sion Due nature freight hauled required Q clearance highest level activity highly classified Dutch very active few years pilot roster worked hilt stuck because still loved fly company finally lost aircraft pi lot eight passengers cargo because pilot exhaustion 1978 FAA ground ed Dutch after diagnosis vertibro bas ilar insufficiency veteran aviator 46 years flying look back set himself scratch-building some gor geous Scale models three milepost aircraft Waco 10 Buhl Pup course Boeing P-12 Now ripe 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began shared accomplishments over years no doubt helped him achieve paid dues however since young wife immediately put through years anxiety wondering what happening husband something sus pect wife whos husband combat can understand Zimmy truly fine woman daughter Shari lives Tus tin CA senior contracts negotiator administrator Parker-Hannifin Indus tries son Jim AtlanticRichfield Oil Company Dallas TX very poor eyesight has prevented him flying However Jim well known inter national competition pistol range houseful trophies prove Fig ure out - Dutch Zimmy presently live Albu querque NM travel good deal attend Air Corps Air Force get togethers air forces countries fraternity hold multinational court some meetings some cases storytellers find talking about same engagementand may have fired other Much Dutchs story has omitted lack space Id love able share Dutchs vivid account 325ths trip Russia helped make Normandy landings June 6 D-day success diverting Germanys attention also gave lot on-the-spot ac counts explaining confusion yet ex ists concerning activities 325th Fighter Group 332nd sus pect someone will produce movie days will amplify confu sion Finally Dutch has given quantity detail Bull Pup thats just waiting antique buffs Per haps another day Writing article has something nostalgia trip Dutch knight skies eyes Il-year-old Fiftyone years later still During course long aviation career Dutch flew different types aircraft both civilian military list follows includes nearly type aircraft distinguished gentleman piloted Civilian aircraft included AeroCom mander 520 Aeronca C-3 Beech Bar Bonanza Twin Bonanza Beech 18 Queenair Mentor T-34 Westwind Bellanca 300 BuhI Bull Pup Cessna 172 182 206 320 Curtiss Fledgling Robin OX-5 DeHavil land Moth Twin Otter vener able Douglas DC-3 Fairchild 22 Fleet Warner Piper Aztec Commanche Navajo TnPacer Rearwin Jr Spartan C- 3 TravelAire E-4000 Waco 10 OX-5 Military aircraft included Beech AT7 AT-il C-45F H Boeing B-17 P-12B C D E F Cessna AT-8 17 U-3A Consolidated PT-3 lC D BT 7 PB-2A Consolidated Vultee L 5A Convair F-102A TF-102A F 106B Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Curtiss A-3B A-12 0-1G 0-39 0-52 P-IC F P 6E P-36A C variants P-40 Douglas BT-2 A-26B B-18 B-18A C-47A B D C-54D O-25A 0-35 0-43 DeHavilland L-20A Fairchild PT 19A C-61A Hawker Hurricane Fokker C-14A Keystone B-3A B 4A B-5A B-6A Lockheed T-33A CContinued page 163 AIR WOLF EPOXY FIBERGLASS FUSELAGES TAKES MOST 50-60 MECHANICS OTHER MODELS AVAILABLE LARRY JOLLY MODEL PRODUCTS $21000 5501 WCOMO SANTA ANA CALIFORNIA 92703 714 826-6861 scale documentation Bell 204 model its work car speak Nonetheless its easy achieve final product detailed Mikes Hucy As can see Mike true craftsman Unfortunately particular model badly damaged Tan gerine Rot Mike bouncing back getting ready Nats right now Mike wish lot luck anxious see Nats model Please keep us posted interested Im contacting Bill Curtis get information various blades products Ill get update recent talk John Gorham brought up speed happenings GMP According John Americanization GMP complete including new main gear tail rotor gear box cooling shroud Thats lot tooling say necessity mother GMP able reach its goals short three months John says UMP kits stock Rebel entertaining large following John also mentioned new 40-size full-house machine make its debut Toledo Tentatively called Viper new Helicopter features light weight full aerobatic performance Im sorry column going short month Ive recently very busy large ducted-fan model Boeing 737-200 movie Im just now getting life back tofor mewhat normal would however like thank reading column have questions photos Helicopt ers dont drop line Ill sure try publish BCNU Dutch/Lehmberg Continued page 61 40A P-38G L F-80A B C Hudson Martin B-b B-lOB B-12 McDon nell F-lO1F North American BT-9B BC-i AT-6 6A through C A-36A B 25C H J P-51B D H Northrop A17 Piasecki H-21 Republic P-47C D N F-84E Severski BT-8 P 35 Supermarine Spitfire Va Vb Stearman PT-17 St Louis C&F PT15 Thomas-Morse O-19B C E Verville PT-bC Vultee BT 13A BTL5 Note some airplanes near Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPtR POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS duplicates Beech 18 C-45 AT-7 AT-il same basic airplane Cur tiss A-3B 0-16 differ armament rear seat equipment Vultee BT 13A BT-15 have different power plants etc its quite impressive list man career Thingamabob/Underwood Continued page 65 out dont have land deadstick Determining flight time ever will take some practice part Deciding locate on/off switch does present little problem mount fuselage side youll have demount time change elec tric glow back again put switch firewall under electric motor falls under heading dumb since exercise extreme caution keeping fingers out prop Dont flying Control Line use least 50 ft lengths 018 braided lines model will fly 60-ft lines no trouble Seventy-footers would probably stretch ing limits credibility thing must un less want screw yourself ground fill fuel tank 25 engine will run what seems like jillion hours four ounces fuel quite since flown much Control Line test flew Thingamabob version up about three four minutes dawned filled tank wouldnt know got beautiful fast engine run lasted almost 30 minutes mind-numbing dizzying circular flight Get syringe-type filler measure ounce two start Control Line version remove rudder pushrod servo attach rudder post will induce right turn rudder will keep model out end lines found unnecessary put weight out board wing tip right rudder small amount right thrust engine A monthly publication covering International RC Soaring Scene US $17 yr 21/yr 1st class In Canada/Mexico $22/yr US funds AsIa & Paclf Ic $28/yr US funds Europe UK $28/yr US funds Surface Mall ForeIgn $18/yr US funds RO SOARING DIGEST PO Box 1079 Payson AZ 85547 THE LEADE NEW ES 100 THP DESIGN DIAPRICE 15 16 NEW PROPELLERS CYCLE TAILORED 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The last line four Shimmys P-51D display US Air Force Museum Wright-Patterson Air Force Base OH painted colors 325th Fighter Group Italy 1944 has Colonel Dutch Sluters personal logo Shimmy IV emblazoned side nostalgic look back career friend extraordi nary times people machines intertwined life IT WAS ONE beautiful spring days San Antonio fluffy cumulocir rus clouds scattered like cotton balls in tensely blue sky Seen through eyes 11-year-old sky green lawn made perfect setting colorful dresses floppy hats mothers girlfriends young pilots just graduated As guests made pleasant small talk chatted another cadets dis appeared beyond somber hangars shielded aircraft view young boy listened rumbling explosions aircraft engines came life imagination could see wheel taxi down apron runway angled off toward Duncan Field couple miles distant age 11 easy enough imagine myself stern54 Model Aviation Left Dutch Sluder January 1933 age 18 standing front Waco 10 hed just soloed managed solo just unde two months less eight hours flight time under skillful instruction Don McDonnell Right Shown plane Dutch soloed thats special place heart ever sincethe OX-S-powered Waco 10 photograph taken Austin TX 1933 visaged warriors shoving up goggles gloved hand casting quick glance sky making sure no Fokker Pfalz aircraft peeling out formation strafe helpless aircraft taking off aerodrome below As rumbling voices engines changed roar casual talk ceased Everyone watched sky over hangars first glimpse sons friends sweethearts pulled goggles down over oilstreaked face jammed throttle wide open swift movement As ma chine roared down runway could feel mounting pressure stick wheels lifted off. Junior arent looking right di rection Renee shaking shoulder going miss seeing Dutch fly Back real world saw air planes appear over hangars Instead Spads Camels Bristols Handley Pages Curtiss P-i Boeing P 12 pursuits Curtiss A-3 Attacks ThomasMorse 0-19 Douglas 0-25 observation craft Keystone bombers B-3 through B-6 completed parade yes production line changing almost weekly time didnt know Keystone Dutch looked bombers thought looking tie biggest airplane world would ever see beautiful spring commencement day June 1936 JT Jake Sluder lovely wife Renee thought looked like popular movie star period friends family Theyd invited graduation JT s brother Dutch Air Corps Advanced Flying School Kelly Field TX pilots still rank cadet graduation becom ing second lieutenants about year About year later policy changed graduating cadets immediately became lieu tenants Dutch very busy young man prior landmark day attended Texas University before entering Air Corps having learned fly years before working Stinson Field during summer given Fokker D-7 SE5 both small solid models large 24-in solid pine Curtiss P-i models magnificent age could see difference between good poor craftsmanship addition Dutch provided lot photos still retain inter ested Real Thing now Yes indeed Dutch got started early Real Thing late 1932 tender age 18 began flying lessons OX-S-powered Waco 10 Austin TX home Texas University soloed little under two months less eight hours under skillful instruction Don McDonell university demanded lot Dutchs time effort relatively short time solo indicated sharp wellorganized student excellent instructor what probably case combina tion both During time Dutch would quit eating until saved four dollarswhich thirty minutes flying time Waco walk out airport fly catch ride back campus Hed repeat whole program following week Thats perserverance April 1933 Dutch acquired 10 hours necessary rate solo license #28874 23rd June 1933 obtained private license San Antonio took up first pas senger Travelaire E-4000 owned Dick Hair passenger mother course Thats sterling example mothers faith son Waco 10 quite machine absolutely minimal instrumentation air speed estimated pitch loud ness flying wires reacted slipstream instruments altimeter water temperature/oil temperaApril 1990 55 Dutchs friend mentor Marion P Dick Hair standing front Stinson 1935 time Dick operated flying service Stinson Field serving San Antonio days learned fly Wright Model B 1916 instructor Katherine Stinson 1935 Dutch became Army Air Corps ca det Randolph Field TX photo Dutch Sluder flying suit chute front Boeing PT-li taken June 1935 Upperclassman Dutch Sluder mother Mrs JT Sluder Randolph Field fall 1935 Dutch got pri vate license 1933 mother became first passenger going up him Tray elaire E-4000 owned friend Dick Hair Newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dutch Sluder Langley Field VA June 1937 Hes standing front Curtiss P-6E tached 35th Pursuit Squadron 8th Pur suit Group transferred after doing stint B-la bombers Mitchell Field NY Three Dutchs favorite prewar pursuit ships logged hours planes first Langley Field VA later instructor Kelly Field TX flying aviation greats such aerobatics master Joe Mackey Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA Armys U first combat ace World War II Wagner killed 1943 Florida engine P-40N quit takeoff Above left Curtiss P-i photographed Dutch Kelly Field Above right US Air Force photo Curtiss P-6E Below US Air Force photo Boeing P-12 ture gauges tachometer pretty sleek biplane OX-S engine cowled very neatly no wind screen rear cockpit Dutch says because student rode rear seat lack windscreen permitted him feel slipstream change during slips skids imagine its absence also al lowed instructor make ferocious grim aces rear-seat student goofed Dutchs comment Shortly after first soloed Dutch JT heard some BuhI Pups available Houston new list price around $1300 JT went Houston bought two total $900 pair logged total flying time 15 minutes during de pression no money kind thing friend Texas University Shelby Kritser Amarillo TX bought Pups NC-394Y Sluders kept NC-393Y later years Krister publish Amarillo Globe-Times come owner-operator Tradewinds Airport west Texas town fatally crashed 1966 flying F8F Bearcat air show Al Tuerpe Stinson Field Aer onca C-3 wanted fly Pup Sluders made deal would swap flying time Pup Tuerpes teaching JT fly C-3 plus cost gas trainer JT spent about 10 dollars learning solo Pup truly gentle lady would spin re cover very nicely spin nor mal allowing airplane lose con siderable altitude just turn two Due low-powered Szekely en gine 45 hp other aerobatics within planes capabilities preplanned build up speed As sidelight Dutchs present-day neigh bor Hungarian escaped country 1957 told him correct pronunciation Szekely Say-kai gentleman Dr Derek Pasternak chief medicine Lovelace Clinic Albu querque NM founder clinic Randy Lovelace conducted consid erable research Air Force highaltitude flight died plane crash several years ago Mrs Lovelace fly ing passengers out Aspen CO under marginal weather conditions Flying VFR visual flight rules turned up blind canyon crashed mountainside no survivors characteristic Pup could have better Dutch remembers plane insufficient rudder area performing steep slips intrepid ne Domoers mat uutcn tiew Mitchell Field NY originally volunteered bombers reasoning such experience would easily transfer commercial aviation depression still being felt growing conflict Europe wasnt yet taken seriously left Keystone B-5A B-6A right USAF photo Martin B-b first truly modern metal bombers go service 56 Model Aviation young men liked sideslip sharp angle across fence Stinson Field boun dary kicking rudder dropping three-point landingreal hot shot stuff impress local observers Dutch hastened point out also great way checking landing path avoid hitting Texas jackrabbits indige nous Stinson Field boys noted craft wired lights option installed again depression mea sure bought set lights along couple Model T dashlights il luminate four instruments just Waco 10 hooked Hot Shot battery tiny luggage compartment hind cockpit evening Septem ber 7 1933 two brothers went out Stinson neat Marquette Coupe check out new modification think such auspicious undertaking 19year-old about 60 hours flight time should have date recorded Despite younger years Dutch logged flying hours JT brothers agreed let him take Pup skies first night flight Since too expensive use floodlights Dutch IT prearranged air port manager airport boundary lights would turned Dutch took off dusk remembers watching lights come cruised over San Antonio gath ering twilight city glowing like jewel box beneath him Returning Stinson bold young avi ator began shooting landings guessing ground trying make three-pointers As approached first landing Dutch wished asked mentor Dick Hair some pointers Dick would have told him forget probably feel ground throttle did anyway evening went well two returned next night practice landings Pup lived showed Someone looking out daring young men flying ma chine Marion P Dick Hair operated flying service Stinson Field air port serving San Antonio days Dutch met Dick attending high school Texas Military Academy Almost weekend Dutch classmate would go out Stinson hang around Hairs air craft sometimes finding dollar 10minute ride buddy Dave Hill inciden tally dead shot rubberband spitballs would sit back classroom nail kids front row Perhaps teachers chastised him will feel better learn marks manship paid off later years Dave came Colonel Tex Hill second-ranking combat ace AVG American Volun teer Group Flying Tigers 18-plus vic tories Dick number aircraft including Travelaire E-4000 taught fly Katharine Stinson 1916 Wright Model B return being line boy prepping aircraft washing down flying passengers Dick allowed Dutch han gar space Pup let him build up time Hair aircraft After Dutch got private commer cial licenses putting nearly spare time Dick Hair friend stalled out Pup about 100 ft Dutchs plane out commission flying time harder come 1935 Dutch applied received appointment cadet Randolph Field entered Army Air Corps June ended problem finding time fly About same time something else happened affect course career Woodlawn Lake recreation area lo cated few miles downtown San Anto nio about two miles home matter fact Dutch took time away Stinson Field Ill bet broke went swim Woodlawn Pool cool off Instead met lovely Miss Zimmerman shortly began dat ing As Dutch put time money short supply typical date con sisted What flavor Coke want free movies Breckenridge Park Dutch married Zimmy Galveston three years later story getting ahead cue April 1990 57 Left Spring 1944 Lesina ItalyDutch commander 325th Fighter Group seen sitting cockpit P-47D-16 crew chief S/Sgt Luke Misen heimer Tampa FL Above Dutchs Thunderbolt Shimmy II photographed Lesina Italy 1944 Below Dutch posing battle-weary Jug Note Nazi kill symbol left Dutchs P-SiB Shimmy III photographed Lesina summer 1944 aircraft led 325ths mission Russia June 2-11 1944 Note long-range auxiliary fuel tanks new cadets placed Stage primary training cadets divided four groups Flight through Flight D first three flights equipped Consolidated PT-3 Flight D newer PT-i iD PT-il D brakes instrument panel switches instruments neatly ar ranged PT-3 instruments haphazardly mounted cabanes no brakes sophisticated air plane considered easy fly Dutch assigned Flight D came known push-button pi lots' Dutch made no secret holding Limited Commercial License No 28874 cant imagine having behaved like James Cagney Captains Clouds other hand After completing ground school Dutch three half-hour sessions dual instruc tion PT-i LD Shortly after last ses sion began instructor suddenly closed throttle yelled Forced landing Dutch stopped whatever maneuver doing picking out likely open field set up power-off approach establishing base leg Drawing upon show-off experi ence Stinson deliberately made ap proach little high came off base leg nose-high turning slip fishtailed couple times kill speed ready set down instructor opened throttle made signal return Randolph As Dutch taxied flight line structor told him make couple solo landings Maybe Hollywood still too shabby 1935 Army Air Corps cadets no assurance being placed after graduation Having pump primed pulp mag azines such G-8 Battle Aces Sky Fighters Flying Aces etc Dutch really wanted complete training pursuits However selected bombers figuring multiengine experience would look lot bet ter airline application experience wild pursuit pilot suspect dating Zimmy sparking some prepare future thoughts thats came watching Dutch make flyby Keystone Bomber pretty June day i936 abso lutely certain would never bigger bomber Such mind iiyear-old Though still cadet shavetail lieu tenant Dutch lucky ones job assignment fly beautiful Martin B-lOs Mitchell Field NY B-b first mono plane bomber accepted Air Corps number duty however ceased inspiring after last straw became squadron commanders bombardier found him self doing magazine reading nose B-b some adroit management Dutch ob tained transfer 35th Squadron 8th Pursuit Group Langley Field VA fly ing P-6E PB-2A aircraft Pictures P-6E always show glossy colorful air plane complete hawks talons painted wheel pants craft Dutch flew used dirt fields got muddy rained Since filled pants mud Hawks pants cut open allowing mud thrown out fouled up chance paint talons Dutch took 8mm movie Hawks shows ex posed wheels utilitarian appearance planes looked like well-used work horses Other planes era open wheel pants radial-engine-powered Navy Goshawk Type II export Hawk case pants open deliv ery Curtiss Dutch received gold bar June 1937 became commissioned officer United States Air Corps soon trans ferred back San Antonio Kelly flight instructor Pursuit Section recieved regular commission 1939 Like World War II combat fighter pi lots Dutch made transition pistonto jet-powered aircraft years after war Hes seen F-102 1957 return Kelly Field Dutch saw Dick Hair quite often Flying various types aircraft over Stinson Field visit would occasionally put bit air show within sight field very aer obatic P-i2 Dutch remembers fa vorite maneuver loop double snap roll top did best demonstrate what Hotshot Charley become since BuhI Pup days 1939 accelerated training program based Kelly Field war gun Europe United States acting correct its pilot shortage stu dents special program civilian pi lots given commissions being polished military specifications day Captain Bert Hovey Dutchs section chief told him take couple P-12s check out new lieuten ant Joe Mackey aerobatics two cranked up takeoff Mackey placed himself position Dutchs wing structed headed toward aerobat ics area Dutch glanced over see Mackey doing right should bebut inverted Dutch did well-executed aileron roll turned see companion could match Mackey responded eight-point roll after Dutch front-row seat superb air show Lieutenant Mackey headed aero batics troupe Thirties flown Roscoe Turners Wedell Williams Racer National Air Races Mackey stayed Kelly instructor two flew lot together also managed occa sionally reprimanded some stunts put aircraft through Another Dutchs students Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA become Armys first flying ace World War II Early 1943 soon after promotion full colonel Wagner testing P-40N Warhawk Florida killed engine died takeoff 58 Model Aviation ELECTRIC CITABRIA great stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05/0 75 electric power take-offs aerobatics touch goes classic beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts step-by-step instructions complete rolled plans hardware threaded rods formed landing gear spruce spars shear webs 32 oz flying weight lightweight equipment 40 SPAN 275 SQ IN AREA FLAT BOTTOM WING 40 EJNEQUtIE& Electro-Combo includes kit DSC 075 Hyper thrust motor fused switch harness Tamiya style connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller IIAVEY YSTEMS 4 oRPoRATIoN 675 Tower Lane West Chester PA 19380 215 430-8645 number fliers survived enormous odds combat die aircraft accident home early 1940 Dutch contin gent instructors tasked open new flight training section Brooks Field near San Antonio TX flying North Ameri can BC-i aircraft later re placed AT-6 1942 trans ferred Mission TX Further manipulation Dutchs part brought assignment London logged some time Spitfires Hurri canes before being posted North Africa arrived however little late North African invasion Christmas Eve 1942 arrived Algiers signed Jimmy Doolittles Eighth Air Force Headquarters Operations Sec tion no combat-experienced per sonnel staff Dutch made num ber information-gathering trips units seeing action gave him time P-40 P-38 T-6and time Spitfire favorite air craft July 1943 Dutch wangled six weeks TDY temporary duty 325th Fight er Group Tunisia experienced several combat missions P-40s high point Dutch recalls came dam aged 109 duty arranged help Group Commander Major Bob Base ler Dutch arrived detailed fly 3 18th Squadron recep tion squadron mates polite enough noticeably cool hardly needed 29-year-old major combat mission after knocking 109 off tail flight leader third mis sion Dutch suddenly became okay P-40s incidentally replaced P-47s shortly thereafter Jug Doug Champlins Fighter Museum Mesa AZ painted Bob Baselers personal aircraft markings Baseler died 1983 believe taste action apparently whetted Dutchs appetite return TDY applied transfer 325th since senior CO maneuver considered impos sible Always planner Dutch showed Baseler should promoted thereby removing obstacle transfer time P-40s replaced P-47Ds 325th escorted President Roosevelt Cairo Conference during period Since Sicilian Campaign virtually over 325th reassigned 12th Air Force new 15th Air Force first week December 1943 325th moved Soliman Tunisia Fog gia Main Airport Italy Dutch assigned command 325th early April 1944 325th destroyed 133 enemy air craft using P-40s Africa P-47s April 1990 59 4 great companion very popular SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $2995 40 Fly Baby 0 YS Futaba parts close phone 1-800-535-2568 Italy fighter group destroyed 152 ad ditional planes late May P-47 re placed P-S lB C Mustangs used right up until V-E Day final tally 325th 529 enemy air craft destroyed plus 56 probables 88 damaged count did include air craft destroyed ground Dutch named personal aircraft Shimmy came up intrigu ing moniker combining first two let ters daughters name last four wifes name P-Si dis play Wright-Patterson Air Force Mu seum replica Shimmy IV basic 325th markings included red nose yellowand-black checkered tail large num ber side fuselage Dutchs num ber 52 top ace 325th Herschel H Herky Green 18 victories Green now lives Palos Verdes CA Dutch promoted rank full colonel returned United States September 1944 having flown 61 combat missions subsequent assignments routine staff command duty cluded duty Pentagon Air War College Alaska senior advisor Ohio Air National Guard Air Defense Com mand Thule Greenland commander Detroit Air Defense Sector Dutch re tired Air Force 1965 after 30 years active duty served Army Air Corps Army Air Force United States Air Force Dutch put wings away tried real estate action Quite under standably seemed rather dull aviation career ac cepted job line pilot company un der contract Atomic Energy Commis sion Due nature freight hauled required Q clearance highest level activity highly classified Dutch very active few years pilot roster worked hilt stuck because still loved fly company finally lost aircraft pi lot eight passengers cargo because pilot exhaustion 1978 FAA ground ed Dutch after diagnosis vertibro bas ilar insufficiency veteran aviator 46 years flying look back set himself scratch-building some gor geous Scale models three milepost aircraft Waco 10 Buhl Pup course Boeing P-12 Now ripe 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began shared accomplishments over years no doubt helped him achieve paid dues however since young wife immediately put through years anxiety wondering what happening husband something sus pect wife whos husband combat can understand Zimmy truly fine woman daughter Shari lives Tus tin CA senior contracts negotiator administrator Parker-Hannifin Indus tries son Jim AtlanticRichfield Oil Company Dallas TX very poor eyesight has prevented him flying However Jim well known inter national competition pistol range houseful trophies prove Fig ure out - Dutch Zimmy presently live Albu querque NM travel good deal attend Air Corps Air Force get togethers air forces countries fraternity hold multinational court some meetings some cases storytellers find talking about same engagementand may have fired other Much Dutchs story has omitted lack space Id love able share Dutchs vivid account 325ths trip Russia helped make Normandy landings June 6 D-day success diverting Germanys attention also gave lot on-the-spot ac counts explaining confusion yet ex ists concerning activities 325th Fighter Group 332nd sus pect someone will produce movie days will amplify confu sion Finally Dutch has given quantity detail Bull Pup thats just waiting antique buffs Per haps another day Writing article has something nostalgia trip Dutch knight skies eyes Il-year-old Fiftyone years later still During course long aviation career Dutch flew different types aircraft both civilian military list follows includes nearly type aircraft distinguished gentleman piloted Civilian aircraft included AeroCom mander 520 Aeronca C-3 Beech Bar Bonanza Twin Bonanza Beech 18 Queenair Mentor T-34 Westwind Bellanca 300 BuhI Bull Pup Cessna 172 182 206 320 Curtiss Fledgling Robin OX-5 DeHavil land Moth Twin Otter vener able Douglas DC-3 Fairchild 22 Fleet Warner Piper Aztec Commanche Navajo TnPacer Rearwin Jr Spartan C- 3 TravelAire E-4000 Waco 10 OX-5 Military aircraft included Beech AT7 AT-il C-45F H Boeing B-17 P-12B C D E F Cessna AT-8 17 U-3A Consolidated PT-3 lC D BT 7 PB-2A Consolidated Vultee L 5A Convair F-102A TF-102A F 106B Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Curtiss A-3B A-12 0-1G 0-39 0-52 P-IC F P 6E P-36A C variants P-40 Douglas BT-2 A-26B B-18 B-18A C-47A B D C-54D O-25A 0-35 0-43 DeHavilland L-20A Fairchild PT 19A C-61A Hawker Hurricane Fokker C-14A Keystone B-3A B 4A B-5A B-6A Lockheed T-33A CContinued page 163 AIR WOLF EPOXY FIBERGLASS FUSELAGES TAKES MOST 50-60 MECHANICS OTHER MODELS AVAILABLE LARRY JOLLY MODEL PRODUCTS $21000 5501 WCOMO SANTA ANA CALIFORNIA 92703 714 826-6861 scale documentation Bell 204 model its work car speak Nonetheless its easy achieve final product detailed Mikes Hucy As can see Mike true craftsman Unfortunately particular model badly damaged Tan gerine Rot Mike bouncing back getting ready Nats right now Mike wish lot luck anxious see Nats model Please keep us posted interested Im contacting Bill Curtis get information various blades products Ill get update recent talk John Gorham brought up speed happenings GMP According John Americanization GMP complete including new main gear tail rotor gear box cooling shroud Thats lot tooling say necessity mother GMP able reach its goals short three months John says UMP kits stock Rebel entertaining large following John also mentioned new 40-size full-house machine make its debut Toledo Tentatively called Viper new Helicopter features light weight full aerobatic performance Im sorry column going short month Ive recently very busy large ducted-fan model Boeing 737-200 movie Im just now getting life back tofor mewhat normal would however like thank reading column have questions photos Helicopt ers dont drop line Ill sure try publish BCNU Dutch/Lehmberg Continued page 61 40A P-38G L F-80A B C Hudson Martin B-b B-lOB B-12 McDon nell F-lO1F North American BT-9B BC-i AT-6 6A through C A-36A B 25C H J P-51B D H Northrop A17 Piasecki H-21 Republic P-47C D N F-84E Severski BT-8 P 35 Supermarine Spitfire Va Vb Stearman PT-17 St Louis C&F PT15 Thomas-Morse O-19B C E Verville PT-bC Vultee BT 13A BTL5 Note some airplanes near Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPtR POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS duplicates Beech 18 C-45 AT-7 AT-il same basic airplane Cur tiss A-3B 0-16 differ armament rear seat equipment Vultee BT 13A BT-15 have different power plants etc its quite impressive list man career Thingamabob/Underwood Continued page 65 out dont have land deadstick Determining flight time ever will take some practice part Deciding locate on/off switch does present little problem mount fuselage side youll have demount time change elec tric glow back again put switch firewall under electric motor falls under heading dumb since exercise extreme caution keeping fingers out prop Dont flying Control Line use least 50 ft lengths 018 braided lines model will fly 60-ft lines no trouble Seventy-footers would probably stretch ing limits credibility thing must un less want screw yourself ground fill fuel tank 25 engine will run what seems like jillion hours four ounces fuel quite since flown much Control Line test flew Thingamabob version up about three four minutes dawned filled tank wouldnt know got beautiful fast engine run lasted almost 30 minutes mind-numbing dizzying circular flight Get syringe-type filler measure ounce two start Control Line version remove rudder pushrod servo attach rudder post will induce right turn rudder will keep model out end lines found unnecessary put weight out board wing tip right rudder small amount right thrust engine A monthly publication covering International RC Soaring Scene US $17 yr 21/yr 1st class In Canada/Mexico $22/yr US funds AsIa & Paclf Ic $28/yr US funds Europe UK $28/yr US funds Surface Mall ForeIgn $18/yr US funds RO SOARING DIGEST PO Box 1079 Payson AZ 85547 THE LEADE NEW ES 100 THP DESIGN DIAPRICE 15 16 NEW PROPELLERS CYCLE TAILORED 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The last line four Shimmys P-51D display US Air Force Museum Wright-Patterson Air Force Base OH painted colors 325th Fighter Group Italy 1944 has Colonel Dutch Sluters personal logo Shimmy IV emblazoned side nostalgic look back career friend extraordi nary times people machines intertwined life IT WAS ONE beautiful spring days San Antonio fluffy cumulocir rus clouds scattered like cotton balls in tensely blue sky Seen through eyes 11-year-old sky green lawn made perfect setting colorful dresses floppy hats mothers girlfriends young pilots just graduated As guests made pleasant small talk chatted another cadets dis appeared beyond somber hangars shielded aircraft view young boy listened rumbling explosions aircraft engines came life imagination could see wheel taxi down apron runway angled off toward Duncan Field couple miles distant age 11 easy enough imagine myself stern54 Model Aviation Left Dutch Sluder January 1933 age 18 standing front Waco 10 hed just soloed managed solo just unde two months less eight hours flight time under skillful instruction Don McDonnell Right Shown plane Dutch soloed thats special place heart ever sincethe OX-S-powered Waco 10 photograph taken Austin TX 1933 visaged warriors shoving up goggles gloved hand casting quick glance sky making sure no Fokker Pfalz aircraft peeling out formation strafe helpless aircraft taking off aerodrome below As rumbling voices engines changed roar casual talk ceased Everyone watched sky over hangars first glimpse sons friends sweethearts pulled goggles down over oilstreaked face jammed throttle wide open swift movement As ma chine roared down runway could feel mounting pressure stick wheels lifted off. Junior arent looking right di rection Renee shaking shoulder going miss seeing Dutch fly Back real world saw air planes appear over hangars Instead Spads Camels Bristols Handley Pages Curtiss P-i Boeing P 12 pursuits Curtiss A-3 Attacks ThomasMorse 0-19 Douglas 0-25 observation craft Keystone bombers B-3 through B-6 completed parade yes production line changing almost weekly time didnt know Keystone Dutch looked bombers thought looking tie biggest airplane world would ever see beautiful spring commencement day June 1936 JT Jake Sluder lovely wife Renee thought looked like popular movie star period friends family Theyd invited graduation JT s brother Dutch Air Corps Advanced Flying School Kelly Field TX pilots still rank cadet graduation becom ing second lieutenants about year About year later policy changed graduating cadets immediately became lieu tenants Dutch very busy young man prior landmark day attended Texas University before entering Air Corps having learned fly years before working Stinson Field during summer given Fokker D-7 SE5 both small solid models large 24-in solid pine Curtiss P-i models magnificent age could see difference between good poor craftsmanship addition Dutch provided lot photos still retain inter ested Real Thing now Yes indeed Dutch got started early Real Thing late 1932 tender age 18 began flying lessons OX-S-powered Waco 10 Austin TX home Texas University soloed little under two months less eight hours under skillful instruction Don McDonell university demanded lot Dutchs time effort relatively short time solo indicated sharp wellorganized student excellent instructor what probably case combina tion both During time Dutch would quit eating until saved four dollarswhich thirty minutes flying time Waco walk out airport fly catch ride back campus Hed repeat whole program following week Thats perserverance April 1933 Dutch acquired 10 hours necessary rate solo license #28874 23rd June 1933 obtained private license San Antonio took up first pas senger Travelaire E-4000 owned Dick Hair passenger mother course Thats sterling example mothers faith son Waco 10 quite machine absolutely minimal instrumentation air speed estimated pitch loud ness flying wires reacted slipstream instruments altimeter water temperature/oil temperaApril 1990 55 Dutchs friend mentor Marion P Dick Hair standing front Stinson 1935 time Dick operated flying service Stinson Field serving San Antonio days learned fly Wright Model B 1916 instructor Katherine Stinson 1935 Dutch became Army Air Corps ca det Randolph Field TX photo Dutch Sluder flying suit chute front Boeing PT-li taken June 1935 Upperclassman Dutch Sluder mother Mrs JT Sluder Randolph Field fall 1935 Dutch got pri vate license 1933 mother became first passenger going up him Tray elaire E-4000 owned friend Dick Hair Newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dutch Sluder Langley Field VA June 1937 Hes standing front Curtiss P-6E tached 35th Pursuit Squadron 8th Pur suit Group transferred after doing stint B-la bombers Mitchell Field NY Three Dutchs favorite prewar pursuit ships logged hours planes first Langley Field VA later instructor Kelly Field TX flying aviation greats such aerobatics master Joe Mackey Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA Armys U first combat ace World War II Wagner killed 1943 Florida engine P-40N quit takeoff Above left Curtiss P-i photographed Dutch Kelly Field Above right US Air Force photo Curtiss P-6E Below US Air Force photo Boeing P-12 ture gauges tachometer pretty sleek biplane OX-S engine cowled very neatly no wind screen rear cockpit Dutch says because student rode rear seat lack windscreen permitted him feel slipstream change during slips skids imagine its absence also al lowed instructor make ferocious grim aces rear-seat student goofed Dutchs comment Shortly after first soloed Dutch JT heard some BuhI Pups available Houston new list price around $1300 JT went Houston bought two total $900 pair logged total flying time 15 minutes during de pression no money kind thing friend Texas University Shelby Kritser Amarillo TX bought Pups NC-394Y Sluders kept NC-393Y later years Krister publish Amarillo Globe-Times come owner-operator Tradewinds Airport west Texas town fatally crashed 1966 flying F8F Bearcat air show Al Tuerpe Stinson Field Aer onca C-3 wanted fly Pup Sluders made deal would swap flying time Pup Tuerpes teaching JT fly C-3 plus cost gas trainer JT spent about 10 dollars learning solo Pup truly gentle lady would spin re cover very nicely spin nor mal allowing airplane lose con siderable altitude just turn two Due low-powered Szekely en gine 45 hp other aerobatics within planes capabilities preplanned build up speed As sidelight Dutchs present-day neigh bor Hungarian escaped country 1957 told him correct pronunciation Szekely Say-kai gentleman Dr Derek Pasternak chief medicine Lovelace Clinic Albu querque NM founder clinic Randy Lovelace conducted consid erable research Air Force highaltitude flight died plane crash several years ago Mrs Lovelace fly ing passengers out Aspen CO under marginal weather conditions Flying VFR visual flight rules turned up blind canyon crashed mountainside no survivors characteristic Pup could have better Dutch remembers plane insufficient rudder area performing steep slips intrepid ne Domoers mat uutcn tiew Mitchell Field NY originally volunteered bombers reasoning such experience would easily transfer commercial aviation depression still being felt growing conflict Europe wasnt yet taken seriously left Keystone B-5A B-6A right USAF photo Martin B-b first truly modern metal bombers go service 56 Model Aviation young men liked sideslip sharp angle across fence Stinson Field boun dary kicking rudder dropping three-point landingreal hot shot stuff impress local observers Dutch hastened point out also great way checking landing path avoid hitting Texas jackrabbits indige nous Stinson Field boys noted craft wired lights option installed again depression mea sure bought set lights along couple Model T dashlights il luminate four instruments just Waco 10 hooked Hot Shot battery tiny luggage compartment hind cockpit evening Septem ber 7 1933 two brothers went out Stinson neat Marquette Coupe check out new modification think such auspicious undertaking 19year-old about 60 hours flight time should have date recorded Despite younger years Dutch logged flying hours JT brothers agreed let him take Pup skies first night flight Since too expensive use floodlights Dutch IT prearranged air port manager airport boundary lights would turned Dutch took off dusk remembers watching lights come cruised over San Antonio gath ering twilight city glowing like jewel box beneath him Returning Stinson bold young avi ator began shooting landings guessing ground trying make three-pointers As approached first landing Dutch wished asked mentor Dick Hair some pointers Dick would have told him forget probably feel ground throttle did anyway evening went well two returned next night practice landings Pup lived showed Someone looking out daring young men flying ma chine Marion P Dick Hair operated flying service Stinson Field air port serving San Antonio days Dutch met Dick attending high school Texas Military Academy Almost weekend Dutch classmate would go out Stinson hang around Hairs air craft sometimes finding dollar 10minute ride buddy Dave Hill inciden tally dead shot rubberband spitballs would sit back classroom nail kids front row Perhaps teachers chastised him will feel better learn marks manship paid off later years Dave came Colonel Tex Hill second-ranking combat ace AVG American Volun teer Group Flying Tigers 18-plus vic tories Dick number aircraft including Travelaire E-4000 taught fly Katharine Stinson 1916 Wright Model B return being line boy prepping aircraft washing down flying passengers Dick allowed Dutch han gar space Pup let him build up time Hair aircraft After Dutch got private commer cial licenses putting nearly spare time Dick Hair friend stalled out Pup about 100 ft Dutchs plane out commission flying time harder come 1935 Dutch applied received appointment cadet Randolph Field entered Army Air Corps June ended problem finding time fly About same time something else happened affect course career Woodlawn Lake recreation area lo cated few miles downtown San Anto nio about two miles home matter fact Dutch took time away Stinson Field Ill bet broke went swim Woodlawn Pool cool off Instead met lovely Miss Zimmerman shortly began dat ing As Dutch put time money short supply typical date con sisted What flavor Coke want free movies Breckenridge Park Dutch married Zimmy Galveston three years later story getting ahead cue April 1990 57 Left Spring 1944 Lesina ItalyDutch commander 325th Fighter Group seen sitting cockpit P-47D-16 crew chief S/Sgt Luke Misen heimer Tampa FL Above Dutchs Thunderbolt Shimmy II photographed Lesina Italy 1944 Below Dutch posing battle-weary Jug Note Nazi kill symbol left Dutchs P-SiB Shimmy III photographed Lesina summer 1944 aircraft led 325ths mission Russia June 2-11 1944 Note long-range auxiliary fuel tanks new cadets placed Stage primary training cadets divided four groups Flight through Flight D first three flights equipped Consolidated PT-3 Flight D newer PT-i iD PT-il D brakes instrument panel switches instruments neatly ar ranged PT-3 instruments haphazardly mounted cabanes no brakes sophisticated air plane considered easy fly Dutch assigned Flight D came known push-button pi lots' Dutch made no secret holding Limited Commercial License No 28874 cant imagine having behaved like James Cagney Captains Clouds other hand After completing ground school Dutch three half-hour sessions dual instruc tion PT-i LD Shortly after last ses sion began instructor suddenly closed throttle yelled Forced landing Dutch stopped whatever maneuver doing picking out likely open field set up power-off approach establishing base leg Drawing upon show-off experi ence Stinson deliberately made ap proach little high came off base leg nose-high turning slip fishtailed couple times kill speed ready set down instructor opened throttle made signal return Randolph As Dutch taxied flight line structor told him make couple solo landings Maybe Hollywood still too shabby 1935 Army Air Corps cadets no assurance being placed after graduation Having pump primed pulp mag azines such G-8 Battle Aces Sky Fighters Flying Aces etc Dutch really wanted complete training pursuits However selected bombers figuring multiengine experience would look lot bet ter airline application experience wild pursuit pilot suspect dating Zimmy sparking some prepare future thoughts thats came watching Dutch make flyby Keystone Bomber pretty June day i936 abso lutely certain would never bigger bomber Such mind iiyear-old Though still cadet shavetail lieu tenant Dutch lucky ones job assignment fly beautiful Martin B-lOs Mitchell Field NY B-b first mono plane bomber accepted Air Corps number duty however ceased inspiring after last straw became squadron commanders bombardier found him self doing magazine reading nose B-b some adroit management Dutch ob tained transfer 35th Squadron 8th Pursuit Group Langley Field VA fly ing P-6E PB-2A aircraft Pictures P-6E always show glossy colorful air plane complete hawks talons painted wheel pants craft Dutch flew used dirt fields got muddy rained Since filled pants mud Hawks pants cut open allowing mud thrown out fouled up chance paint talons Dutch took 8mm movie Hawks shows ex posed wheels utilitarian appearance planes looked like well-used work horses Other planes era open wheel pants radial-engine-powered Navy Goshawk Type II export Hawk case pants open deliv ery Curtiss Dutch received gold bar June 1937 became commissioned officer United States Air Corps soon trans ferred back San Antonio Kelly flight instructor Pursuit Section recieved regular commission 1939 Like World War II combat fighter pi lots Dutch made transition pistonto jet-powered aircraft years after war Hes seen F-102 1957 return Kelly Field Dutch saw Dick Hair quite often Flying various types aircraft over Stinson Field visit would occasionally put bit air show within sight field very aer obatic P-i2 Dutch remembers fa vorite maneuver loop double snap roll top did best demonstrate what Hotshot Charley become since BuhI Pup days 1939 accelerated training program based Kelly Field war gun Europe United States acting correct its pilot shortage stu dents special program civilian pi lots given commissions being polished military specifications day Captain Bert Hovey Dutchs section chief told him take couple P-12s check out new lieuten ant Joe Mackey aerobatics two cranked up takeoff Mackey placed himself position Dutchs wing structed headed toward aerobat ics area Dutch glanced over see Mackey doing right should bebut inverted Dutch did well-executed aileron roll turned see companion could match Mackey responded eight-point roll after Dutch front-row seat superb air show Lieutenant Mackey headed aero batics troupe Thirties flown Roscoe Turners Wedell Williams Racer National Air Races Mackey stayed Kelly instructor two flew lot together also managed occa sionally reprimanded some stunts put aircraft through Another Dutchs students Boyd D Buzz Wagner Johnstown PA become Armys first flying ace World War II Early 1943 soon after promotion full colonel Wagner testing P-40N Warhawk Florida killed engine died takeoff 58 Model Aviation ELECTRIC CITABRIA great stand-way-off scale fun ship designed 05/0 75 electric power take-offs aerobatics touch goes classic beauty yet enjoy docile slow flight easy landings Quick easy build kit includes pre cut fuselage sides tail feathers small parts step-by-step instructions complete rolled plans hardware threaded rods formed landing gear spruce spars shear webs 32 oz flying weight lightweight equipment 40 SPAN 275 SQ IN AREA FLAT BOTTOM WING 40 EJNEQUtIE& Electro-Combo includes kit DSC 075 Hyper thrust motor fused switch harness Tamiya style connector propeller adaptor 8/4 fiberglass propeller IIAVEY YSTEMS 4 oRPoRATIoN 675 Tower Lane West Chester PA 19380 215 430-8645 number fliers survived enormous odds combat die aircraft accident home early 1940 Dutch contin gent instructors tasked open new flight training section Brooks Field near San Antonio TX flying North Ameri can BC-i aircraft later re placed AT-6 1942 trans ferred Mission TX Further manipulation Dutchs part brought assignment London logged some time Spitfires Hurri canes before being posted North Africa arrived however little late North African invasion Christmas Eve 1942 arrived Algiers signed Jimmy Doolittles Eighth Air Force Headquarters Operations Sec tion no combat-experienced per sonnel staff Dutch made num ber information-gathering trips units seeing action gave him time P-40 P-38 T-6and time Spitfire favorite air craft July 1943 Dutch wangled six weeks TDY temporary duty 325th Fight er Group Tunisia experienced several combat missions P-40s high point Dutch recalls came dam aged 109 duty arranged help Group Commander Major Bob Base ler Dutch arrived detailed fly 3 18th Squadron recep tion squadron mates polite enough noticeably cool hardly needed 29-year-old major combat mission after knocking 109 off tail flight leader third mis sion Dutch suddenly became okay P-40s incidentally replaced P-47s shortly thereafter Jug Doug Champlins Fighter Museum Mesa AZ painted Bob Baselers personal aircraft markings Baseler died 1983 believe taste action apparently whetted Dutchs appetite return TDY applied transfer 325th since senior CO maneuver considered impos sible Always planner Dutch showed Baseler should promoted thereby removing obstacle transfer time P-40s replaced P-47Ds 325th escorted President Roosevelt Cairo Conference during period Since Sicilian Campaign virtually over 325th reassigned 12th Air Force new 15th Air Force first week December 1943 325th moved Soliman Tunisia Fog gia Main Airport Italy Dutch assigned command 325th early April 1944 325th destroyed 133 enemy air craft using P-40s Africa P-47s April 1990 59 4 great companion very popular SPECIAL COMBO PRICE $5795 BASIC KIT $2995 40 Fly Baby 0 YS Futaba parts close phone 1-800-535-2568 Italy fighter group destroyed 152 ad ditional planes late May P-47 re placed P-S lB C Mustangs used right up until V-E Day final tally 325th 529 enemy air craft destroyed plus 56 probables 88 damaged count did include air craft destroyed ground Dutch named personal aircraft Shimmy came up intrigu ing moniker combining first two let ters daughters name last four wifes name P-Si dis play Wright-Patterson Air Force Mu seum replica Shimmy IV basic 325th markings included red nose yellowand-black checkered tail large num ber side fuselage Dutchs num ber 52 top ace 325th Herschel H Herky Green 18 victories Green now lives Palos Verdes CA Dutch promoted rank full colonel returned United States September 1944 having flown 61 combat missions subsequent assignments routine staff command duty cluded duty Pentagon Air War College Alaska senior advisor Ohio Air National Guard Air Defense Com mand Thule Greenland commander Detroit Air Defense Sector Dutch re tired Air Force 1965 after 30 years active duty served Army Air Corps Army Air Force United States Air Force Dutch put wings away tried real estate action Quite under standably seemed rather dull aviation career ac cepted job line pilot company un der contract Atomic Energy Commis sion Due nature freight hauled required Q clearance highest level activity highly classified Dutch very active few years pilot roster worked hilt stuck because still loved fly company finally lost aircraft pi lot eight passengers cargo because pilot exhaustion 1978 FAA ground ed Dutch after diagnosis vertibro bas ilar insufficiency veteran aviator 46 years flying look back set himself scratch-building some gor geous Scale models three milepost aircraft Waco 10 Buhl Pup course Boeing P-12 Now ripe old age 72 Dutch barely makes around Kirtland Air Force Base golf course four times week says sometimes takes him three hours play 18 holes because has wait senior citizens collect thoughts find balls conserve strength lie takes few swipes ball possible would make low score wouldnt brother JT became highly re spected general aviation pilot San Antonioflight instructor charter pilot etc last time saw JT cant think him Jake Dutch Chet does rest world nowadays fly ing Jack Ammons aerial survey com pany believe about 1950 Shortly afterward got ranching has done quite well earthbound business may have wondered refer Dutch name simply think him Dutchnot Chet nor Colonel Chester L Sluder 50-year habit hard break Dutch awarded nickname back learning talkhis fam ily said sounded like Dutchman American FULL BODY PILOT KIT Contains pilot head hands boots helmet cap goggles full templates easy instruc tions Easy assemble finish Some simple sewing required Fully positionable tool PIce #206-A scale 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began shared accomplishments over years no doubt helped him achieve paid dues however since young wife immediately put through years anxiety wondering what happening husband something sus pect wife whos husband combat can understand Zimmy truly fine woman daughter Shari lives Tus tin CA senior contracts negotiator administrator Parker-Hannifin Indus tries son Jim AtlanticRichfield Oil Company Dallas TX very poor eyesight has prevented him flying However Jim well known inter national competition pistol range houseful trophies prove Fig ure out - Dutch Zimmy presently live Albu querque NM travel good deal attend Air Corps Air Force get togethers air forces countries fraternity hold multinational court some meetings some cases storytellers find talking about same engagementand may have fired other Much Dutchs story has omitted lack space Id love able share Dutchs vivid account 325ths trip Russia helped make Normandy landings June 6 D-day success diverting Germanys attention also gave lot on-the-spot ac counts explaining confusion yet ex ists concerning activities 325th Fighter Group 332nd sus pect someone will produce movie days will amplify confu sion Finally Dutch has given quantity detail Bull Pup thats just waiting antique buffs Per haps another day Writing article has something nostalgia trip Dutch knight skies eyes Il-year-old Fiftyone years later still During course long aviation career Dutch flew different types aircraft both civilian military list follows includes nearly type aircraft distinguished gentleman piloted Civilian aircraft included AeroCom mander 520 Aeronca C-3 Beech Bar Bonanza Twin Bonanza Beech 18 Queenair Mentor T-34 Westwind Bellanca 300 BuhI Bull Pup Cessna 172 182 206 320 Curtiss Fledgling Robin OX-5 DeHavil land Moth Twin Otter vener able Douglas DC-3 Fairchild 22 Fleet Warner Piper Aztec Commanche Navajo TnPacer Rearwin Jr Spartan C- 3 TravelAire E-4000 Waco 10 OX-5 Military aircraft included Beech AT7 AT-il C-45F H Boeing B-17 P-12B C D E F Cessna AT-8 17 U-3A Consolidated PT-3 lC D BT 7 PB-2A Consolidated Vultee L 5A Convair F-102A TF-102A F 106B Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Curtiss A-3B A-12 0-1G 0-39 0-52 P-IC F P 6E P-36A C variants P-40 Douglas BT-2 A-26B B-18 B-18A C-47A B D C-54D O-25A 0-35 0-43 DeHavilland L-20A Fairchild PT 19A C-61A Hawker Hurricane Fokker C-14A Keystone B-3A B 4A B-5A B-6A Lockheed T-33A CContinued page 163 AIR WOLF EPOXY FIBERGLASS FUSELAGES TAKES MOST 50-60 MECHANICS OTHER MODELS AVAILABLE LARRY JOLLY MODEL PRODUCTS $21000 5501 WCOMO SANTA ANA CALIFORNIA 92703 714 826-6861 scale documentation Bell 204 model its work car speak Nonetheless its easy achieve final product detailed Mikes Hucy As can see Mike true craftsman Unfortunately particular model badly damaged Tan gerine Rot Mike bouncing back getting ready Nats right now Mike wish lot luck anxious see Nats model Please keep us posted interested Im contacting Bill Curtis get information various blades products Ill get update recent talk John Gorham brought up speed happenings GMP According John Americanization GMP complete including new main gear tail rotor gear box cooling shroud Thats lot tooling say necessity mother GMP able reach its goals short three months John says UMP kits stock Rebel entertaining large following John also mentioned new 40-size full-house machine make its debut Toledo Tentatively called Viper new Helicopter features light weight full aerobatic performance Im sorry column going short month Ive recently very busy large ducted-fan model Boeing 737-200 movie Im just now getting life back tofor mewhat normal would however like thank reading column have questions photos Helicopt ers dont drop line Ill sure try publish BCNU Dutch/Lehmberg Continued page 61 40A P-38G L F-80A B C Hudson Martin B-b B-lOB B-12 McDon nell F-lO1F North American BT-9B BC-i AT-6 6A through C A-36A B 25C H J P-51B D H Northrop A17 Piasecki H-21 Republic P-47C D N F-84E Severski BT-8 P 35 Supermarine Spitfire Va Vb Stearman PT-17 St Louis C&F PT15 Thomas-Morse O-19B C E Verville PT-bC Vultee BT 13A BTL5 Note some airplanes near Matched Finish System BEST APPEARANCE K&B FIBERGLASS CLOTH K&B Micro-Balloons FILLER K&B SUPtR POSY RESIN K&B SUPER POSY THINNER K&B SUPER POXY PRIMER K&B SUPER FOXY PAINT K&B MIXING CUPS duplicates Beech 18 C-45 AT-7 AT-il same basic airplane Cur tiss A-3B 0-16 differ armament rear seat equipment Vultee BT 13A BT-15 have different power plants etc its quite impressive list man career Thingamabob/Underwood Continued page 65 out dont have land deadstick Determining flight time ever will take some practice part Deciding locate on/off switch does present little problem mount fuselage side youll have demount time change elec tric glow back again put switch firewall under electric motor falls under heading dumb since exercise extreme caution keeping fingers out prop Dont flying Control Line use least 50 ft lengths 018 braided lines model will fly 60-ft lines no trouble Seventy-footers would 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