Original Posted By: "walt evans"
Reportedly, the Texas Air Museum at Stinson Field (San Antonio) has acquired a 1932 Pietenpol with a Lambert 5-cylinder radial engine. This airplane was formerly at another museum, possibly Rio Hondo (TX), and I assume it will be in need of restoration. I need to get out there and see what they have! Anybody know the history of this plane, who built it, anything? Know who might be familiar with this engine and could work on it?Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 18:41:21 -0400
Pietenpol-List: Piet at Stinson Field
Re: Pietenpol-List: Piet at Stinson Field
Original Posted By: "Oscar Zuniga"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Piet at Stinson FieldHey Oscar,I saw this airplane about 15 yrs ago. It was sitting in a hangar in Clifton TX. It has taylorcraft wings adapted. It has German markings. Search the archives and you should see some discussion. According to someone's post, it supposedly was flown in dogfight performances a few times while at the Hondo museum. If they need any engine parts, let me know. I have a friend here in Waco that knows how to scrounge that stuff. He had a complete LeBlond radial andsome Lambert parts a while back.Terry________________________________________________________________________________
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Piet at Stinson FieldHey Oscar,I saw this airplane about 15 yrs ago. It was sitting in a hangar in Clifton TX. It has taylorcraft wings adapted. It has German markings. Search the archives and you should see some discussion. According to someone's post, it supposedly was flown in dogfight performances a few times while at the Hondo museum. If they need any engine parts, let me know. I have a friend here in Waco that knows how to scrounge that stuff. He had a complete LeBlond radial andsome Lambert parts a while back.Terry________________________________________________________________________________
Re: Pietenpol-List: Piet at Stinson Field
Original Posted By: BARNSTMR(at)aol.com
Terry, Oscar and the Gang,I stopped at the Clifton airport several years ago enrouteto Dallas. The folks there told me about a black homebuiltairplane that resembled a Piet or GN-1. There were notsure what it was but a museum in the Texas Rio GrandeValley came up, bought it and trailered it back to Rio Hondo.A year later, I was in the Valley for a Masonic function butstopped by the Texas Air Museum in Rio Hondo to see theplane. As luck would have it, the museum was hosting itsmonthly slate of events which included a re-enactment of whatthey billed as the first aerial dogfight in this country during thedays of Poncho Villa. The Piet/GN-1 was dressed in Germancolors going up against a vintage biplane. John WarrenHouston, founder of the museum, flew one of the planes.Both pilots, cropdusters by trade, flew very tight maneuversjust feet above the crowd and did things with those planesthat would envy many veteran stunt and aerobatics pilots.By they way, John Warren Houston was featured in aDiscovery Wings episode involving the restoration of aWorld War II fighter that was shot down. Ironically, Johnfound the pilot that was shot down in that plane, flew toGermany and personally invited him to return to Texas.The veteran German pilot flew to Texas where he sawhis restored airplane and sat in its cockpit just as he didover half a century ago. Tears were seen on both Johnand the German aviator. It was a great episode. Johnlater passed away short after the show aired.Since then, the Texas Air Museum in Rio Hondo hasmoved its planes to other Texas Air Museum Chapterslocated in Slaton and Stinson Field in San Antonio, the homeof the black PIET Oscar made reference to.For more information about the Texas Air Museum, youcan go to its web site: www.texasairmuseum.com. When you click on the Slaton Chapter, you will find picturesof the late Jimmy Franklin signing autographs just afterhis performance there last June....just week before histragic death. Another great loss.FYI, I have pictures of the black German Piet/GN-1I photographed at Rio Hondo. If anyone is interestedI will send them to you. It is a sweet looking airplanewith a radial engine and distinctive markings. Maybesomone can direct me on how to post pictures of theplane for the rest of this group to see.Keep up the great work guys......maybe we can makea Texas Piet/GN-1 fly to Stinson Field.Mike KingGN-177MKDallas ----- Original Message -----
Terry, Oscar and the Gang,I stopped at the Clifton airport several years ago enrouteto Dallas. The folks there told me about a black homebuiltairplane that resembled a Piet or GN-1. There were notsure what it was but a museum in the Texas Rio GrandeValley came up, bought it and trailered it back to Rio Hondo.A year later, I was in the Valley for a Masonic function butstopped by the Texas Air Museum in Rio Hondo to see theplane. As luck would have it, the museum was hosting itsmonthly slate of events which included a re-enactment of whatthey billed as the first aerial dogfight in this country during thedays of Poncho Villa. The Piet/GN-1 was dressed in Germancolors going up against a vintage biplane. John WarrenHouston, founder of the museum, flew one of the planes.Both pilots, cropdusters by trade, flew very tight maneuversjust feet above the crowd and did things with those planesthat would envy many veteran stunt and aerobatics pilots.By they way, John Warren Houston was featured in aDiscovery Wings episode involving the restoration of aWorld War II fighter that was shot down. Ironically, Johnfound the pilot that was shot down in that plane, flew toGermany and personally invited him to return to Texas.The veteran German pilot flew to Texas where he sawhis restored airplane and sat in its cockpit just as he didover half a century ago. Tears were seen on both Johnand the German aviator. It was a great episode. Johnlater passed away short after the show aired.Since then, the Texas Air Museum in Rio Hondo hasmoved its planes to other Texas Air Museum Chapterslocated in Slaton and Stinson Field in San Antonio, the homeof the black PIET Oscar made reference to.For more information about the Texas Air Museum, youcan go to its web site: www.texasairmuseum.com. When you click on the Slaton Chapter, you will find picturesof the late Jimmy Franklin signing autographs just afterhis performance there last June....just week before histragic death. Another great loss.FYI, I have pictures of the black German Piet/GN-1I photographed at Rio Hondo. If anyone is interestedI will send them to you. It is a sweet looking airplanewith a radial engine and distinctive markings. Maybesomone can direct me on how to post pictures of theplane for the rest of this group to see.Keep up the great work guys......maybe we can makea Texas Piet/GN-1 fly to Stinson Field.Mike KingGN-177MKDallas ----- Original Message -----
RE: Pietenpol-List: Piet at Stinson Field
Original Posted By: "Phillips, Jack"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: A/N HardwareUp early this morning to watch the shuttle land...Just wondering if anyone has ever cataloged the various A/N nuts, bolts and other hardware used in a Piet. I'm building a straight-axle, Ford A-powered Piet and am not all that comfortable yet with going from the old hardware spec'd on the 1933 plans to thelatter-day aircraft grade hardware. I'm currently building the landing gear formay plane. Also, yesterday afternoon, I set the dual control stick assembly into place. Will post some pictures of my project one of these days soon.By the way, I purchased my control stick assembly, rudder bar and the lower fuselage landing gear and lift strut attach fittings from Ken Perkins. I offera totally unsolicited endorsement of Ken's work -- it is gorgeous workmanship and, in my case, will save me untold hours of trying to learn to weld and to build these parts correctly, not to mention will save me the worry about flyingwith metal parts that I had welded. I know that part of the Piet process is to learn various skills and to do it yourself, but for me it just makes sense to let a real pro make parts like these vital components. Thanks in advance for any help with the A/N hardware!Fred B.La Crosse, WI ________________________________________________________________________________Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Piet at Stinson FieldDate: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 07:20:21 -0400
Subject: Pietenpol-List: A/N HardwareUp early this morning to watch the shuttle land...Just wondering if anyone has ever cataloged the various A/N nuts, bolts and other hardware used in a Piet. I'm building a straight-axle, Ford A-powered Piet and am not all that comfortable yet with going from the old hardware spec'd on the 1933 plans to thelatter-day aircraft grade hardware. I'm currently building the landing gear formay plane. Also, yesterday afternoon, I set the dual control stick assembly into place. Will post some pictures of my project one of these days soon.By the way, I purchased my control stick assembly, rudder bar and the lower fuselage landing gear and lift strut attach fittings from Ken Perkins. I offera totally unsolicited endorsement of Ken's work -- it is gorgeous workmanship and, in my case, will save me untold hours of trying to learn to weld and to build these parts correctly, not to mention will save me the worry about flyingwith metal parts that I had welded. I know that part of the Piet process is to learn various skills and to do it yourself, but for me it just makes sense to let a real pro make parts like these vital components. Thanks in advance for any help with the A/N hardware!Fred B.La Crosse, WI ________________________________________________________________________________Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Piet at Stinson FieldDate: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 07:20:21 -0400
Re: Pietenpol-List: Piet at Stinson Field
Original Posted By: "Oscar Zuniga"
oscar,this airplane has been talked about before on this list. Check thearchives. The rio hondo museum also had an FW-190 that they obtained fromthe bottom of a Norwegian Fjord.chrisBraumeister und Inspektor der Flitzer und Flitzermotoren----- Original Message -----
oscar,this airplane has been talked about before on this list. Check thearchives. The rio hondo museum also had an FW-190 that they obtained fromthe bottom of a Norwegian Fjord.chrisBraumeister und Inspektor der Flitzer und Flitzermotoren----- Original Message -----