Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: William Conway
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Wittman Tailwind List>>I have just decided that my next scratchbuilt project will be a Tailwind.>Anyone here have experience with this plane? I know that several Piet>builders have gone on to build Tailwinds (Dick Alkire for one.) I am going>to start a new list for Tailwinds. Anyone interested in an early>subscription? I promise ground floor spot will be cheap! >>Stevee>________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: steve(at)byu.edu
I have just decided that my next scratchbuilt project will be a Tailwind.Anyone here have experience with this plane? I know that several Pietbuilders have gone on to build Tailwinds (Dick Alkire for one.) I am goingto start a new list for Tailwinds. Anyone interested in an earlysubscription? I promise ground floor spot will be cheap! :)Stevee________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: John Greenlee
Great idea! Please sign me right up.The plans are here cluttering up my office (right next tothe Pietenpol plans, and the shop is finally getting to thepoint where I can hope someday to work in it.Of course, now that I'm almost ready to start on myTailwind (or my Piet), it looks like we're going to sell thehouse. So it goes...Thanks for taking on one of the more worthwhile choresin Web-airplane-land. IMHO, it would be worth signing upwith our local ISP just to receive a good Tailwind mailing list.Owen Davies________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: dswagler(at)cobkf.ang.af.mil
Steve: Very interesting idea. Please sign me up for this one also. Thanks forthe additional effort. Best Regards,Warren________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: , on 8/19/98 8:34 AM:
Excellent idea!-------------Original Text________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: russell ray
Steve: Have attempted to send two acknowledgements to Twind and has come back asundeliverable because this address is not on the directory.________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: russell ray
Anyone hear of an allwood Tailwind? About 6 year ago at a fly in atCreston, Iowa I saw one. Even the control stick was wood! It was powered by an90 horse Cont.It should have really scooted. The two guys on board must have weighed atleast500 lbs.. and take off perfomance on a hot July day was great.Orville E. Lanham________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: Owen Davies
Richard,YUP!!Steve-----Original Message-----Richard DeCostaSent: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 12:44 PMSubject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Wittman Tailwind ListIs THIS the plane youre all talking about?http://www.aircraft-spruce.com/tiff/tailwind.gifRichard> Anyone hear of an allwood Tailwind? About 6 year ago at a fly in> at> Creston, Iowa I saw one. Even the control stick was wood! It was> powered by an 90 horse Cont. It should have really scooted. The two> guys on board must have weighed at least 500 lbs.. and take off> perfomance on a hot July day was great. Orville E. Lanham-------------------------------------------------Homepage: http://207.140.1.221/w3builder_________ ... __________

Original Posted By: Rich Melaun
Interesting!A Tailwind-fancier friend once told me of an all-woodTailwind renamed the "Woodwind." Could this be it?His recollection was that it was much heavier than thetube-and-fabric original.I'd like to know more about this. I enjoy welding, but thereis something neat about the idea of a wood translation.Owen Davies-----Original Message----->YUP!!>>Steve>>Is THIS the plane youre all talking about?>>http://www.aircraft-spruce.com/tiff/tai ... __________

Original Posted By: steve(at)byu.edu
I also am interested. Any one know of a Hatz list?-----Original Message-----

Original Posted By:> steve(at)byu.edu
You can add my name to your list,please. Doug.

Original Posted By: Phil Peck
Steve,Had the privilege of watching Steve Wittman fly his Olds poweredTailwind in Florida. He took one of our group (Bill Wynne of PietenpolCorvair conversions) with him and they disappeared for awhile. Wedidn't know he was back until he came in like a rocket about 5 ft offthe grass with that Olds sounding like a baby P-51, followed by a zoomclimb to around 2,000 ft. Bill said it was the first time a seniorcitizen ever scared a teenager (Steve was in his 80's then)! Airspeedon the pass was about 190 indicated and the 1000 ft/min vsi was peggedat the stop. A lot of performance for the money.Mikesteve(at)byu.edu wrote:> > I have just decided that my next scratchbuilt project will be a Tailwind.> Anyone here have experience with this plane? I know that several Piet> builders have gone on to build Tailwinds (Dick Alkire for one.) I am going> to start a new list for Tailwinds. Anyone interested in an early> subscription? I promise ground floor spot will be cheap! > > Stevee________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: ADonJr(at)aol.com
Stevee,Please put me on the Wittman Tailwind list. Back ('way back) in 1956 a friend of mine visited Steve Wittman,had a ride with him and bought a set of plans for the Tailwind. Henever used them and gave them to me in 1982. He was mightilyimpressed with the airplane---and its designer.My friend's name was Maurice Fry. He and John Davids had built a Ford A -powered Pietenpol at Hartney, Manitoba in 1931 whenhe was seventeen years old and John was only sixteen! That air-craft's registration was CF-ARH and the records indicate that it was the very first Pietenpol to be registered in Canada. Perhapsnot the first one built, but the first "legal" one by virtue of being of-ficially registered. Both Maurice and John flew for decades. Both are now gone from this earth, due to natural causes.So this is yet another case where a Pietenpol builder has shown agreat interest in the Tailwind. I doubt I will ever build one (becauseof, as Bernard Pietenpol would say, "too many birthdays!"), but I sure am interested in the design.Cheers,Graham Hansen________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: "Lee L. Schiek"
> > > I have just decided that my next scratchbuilt project will be a Tailwind.> Anyone here have experience with this plane? I know that several Piet> builders have gone on to build Tailwinds (Dick Alkire for one.) I amgoing> to start a new list for Tailwinds. Anyone interested in an early> subscription? I promise ground floor spot will be cheap! > > Stevee________________________________________________________________________________