Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: "Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC]"

Original Posted By: shad bell
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Grega at Reklaw Texas, not a PietenpolBeing a Piet purest, I could not agree more. Thanks again for the tape, Mike. Did you get my snail mail?Ron________________________________________________________________________________Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:57:29 -0800 (PST)

Original Posted By: "DJ Vegh"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Grega at Reklaw Texas, not a PietenpolHello Mike,Hope you are doing well.Thought I might make a comment after hearing the discussion regarding the Pietenpol at Reklaw. I was there with my Maule, as I am most years.> > You guys know that I've made very supportive comments on behalf of the > GN-1 (and even flown one that was quite nice....but heavy) but I find > it annoying that a guy would plaster a logo on the side of something > that is not/was not designed by Bernard Pietenpol. In someDid you look carefully at that logo? I had to take a second look for it says 'Pietenpol Inspired'.I talked with the owner, who is a Southwest Airlines pilot (hence the SW Airlines on the tail) who hangers the plane, I believe, at Buford which is a small private strip south of Lufkin.He bought the plane already built from the widow of the builder and has tried to research it but hasn't gleaned too much information. The widow didn't know a whole lot about the plane. I ask him about the landing gear, which looked like the J3 sort of bungies under boots, similiar to what some Grega builders might use. But the wings had the under camber like a Piet and _not_ flat like the J3 wing. So rather a combination of ideas.He was flying along with someone with a J3 from that same area, I presume.That's about all the info I found out about it and he left shortly afterwards. Believe that was Sunday morning that I had the conversation....Edwin____________________________________________________________"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyesturned skyward, for there you have been, there you long toreturn."-da Vinci http://bellsouthpwp2.net/e/d/edwinljohn ... __________

Original Posted By: "Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC]"
I've seen this GN-1 and I can say that the current owner bought it this way.The builder is the one who put the logo on there.... but the only referenceI recall to it being advertised at a Piet was the "1929" text next to theAircamper logo. I don't remember there being any "Pietenpol" letteringanywhere when I saw it.as a matter of "small worldness", that GN-1 used to sit parked in a hangarright next to the '46 Tcraft I just bought 2 weeks ago and had ferried fromIndiana. as for "Pietenpols" on Barnstormers... you almost have to listthem under that category because there is no "Grega" search selection that Ihave been able to find.DJ----- Original Message -----

Original Posted By: John Egan

Original Posted By: "Phillips, Jack"