Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: Jeff Boatright
I received a nice laminated photo of the "Piet kids" in the mail last week. I think they sent out photos to everyone who contributed to their restoration project and trip to Oshkosh. Very encouraging to see young people carring the 75 year old design into the 21st century and beyond!Who knows; there might be a daydreaming young student doodling in class right now, working on a biodiesel Piet or a hydrogen Piet or something else like that, even as we speak...Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net_________________________________________________________________Test your celebrity IQ. Play Red Carpet Reveal and earn great prizes! http://club.live.com/red_carpet_reveal. ... ______Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:11:02 -0400

Original Posted By: Jeff Boatright
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Pietenpol kidsHey !! I received that picture of the 'Pietenpol Kids' too !! You're right on Oscar, about our next generation of Pietenpol Builders. There is also a good article about them in the Sport Aviation that I got today. No doubt thesekids are much more confident about any endeavor they choose in their life, andI would bet a dollar to a doughnut that several of them will someday build a Pietenpol of their own !!>From Trees & Rags toStick & RudderPietenpols are Forever !!http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30t ... ______Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:12:05 -0400

Original Posted By: "Gordon Bowen"
This is all very odd to me. We have a Lotus that runs a Toyota 2ZZ based engine built by Yamaha and it turns almost 9k stock, and is turning 12k after the build. It is like driving a sportbike with a steering wheel. My other daily driver is a Subaru 04 STi that put down 300 stock and is now at just over 500 after a larger turbo, IC, injectors, pump etc. and ECU reflash. That is where my auto mindset comes from. When I first started building I looke at auto and aero engines as the same. HP + HP etc. After allot of looking at the real world I came to see that they are very different an that people like Gordon have a real point. Granted the model A engine was not that different from an aero engine in many respects. The more I get used to it, and as I start down the road of building my second plane, an Acro Sport II, I see that a 360ci 4Cyl which would be terrible in the auto world makes sense in the aero world. That said, the PSRU is a valid idea and Subaru engines are ideal if any are for conversion. I really wanted to run an EA81 in my Peit and I do think it could have worked but the A65 won out for various reasons, chiefly insurance. -Scott----- Original Message -----