Art Scholl And Chipmunk

Art Scholl and his de Havilland Super Chipmunk . This modified RAF trainer featured rearward retracting landing gear, a clipped wing, an enlarged rudder and was converted to single pilot operations. The engine was upped from 145hp to 260hp . Three Super Chipmunk conversions were made, Scholl's N13A and N13Y and Harold Kriers N6311V.

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Sports

Tags:

• Art
• Scholl
• Chipmunk
• Airshow
• Lomcevak
• Aircraft
• Aerobatics

[MGB1977Red]

Sorry that the video is so poor for such a great subject. Back in the early '70s everthing was shot on 16mm or 8mm film and the original footage has long since dissappeared. All we are left with is dodgy transfers. It would be great to find the original 16mm news story. The 8mm consumer film was Kodachrome which holds up pretty well but the image is tiny and was usually shot at 18fps. Early quad and 1" tape transfers don't help as the tape has become unstable and working machines are rare.

[MGB1977Red]

Art Scholl absolutely loved to fly aerobatics. His dog Aileron would sometimes fly along in the cockpit. In the early '70s he flew a show at Centennial Airport in Denver and performed one of the first Lomecevaks we'd ever seen. The Chippy was a large airplane and made a lot of big noises. I remember looking straight up into the cockpit as Art did a flat inverted spin that had drifted over us due to wind. He flew low and the 8 point roll in the video was typical. A master of showmanship.

[circletree]

I saw Art at the Rockingham Dragway in Rockingham, NC in 1971 and have pictures of him doing the inverted ribbon cut. He did the lomcevack as well and my Daddy was so impressed he talked about it 'til his death in 2006. After I took up R/C flying in the early eighties he would always goad me into performing a lomcevack...i never could get it right!

[leviercosmicwind]

Great to see some Art Scholl action! Wonderful stuff.