Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: "Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC]"
owen,The cheapest nice plane your going to get in the air is an unfinished project.Something like the one in Boulder thats been on Barnstormers for quite a while.Think he wanted $6200, it was Gary Ennerking's plane, look at westcoastpietor Barnstormers to see pictures. That plane has a corvair engine, workmanshiplooks good, and compared to building from scratch you couldn't touch the price.Just an example, ... but I looked around a lot, and was very close to buying theone I mentioned, then my biplane project came along and I bought it instead,spent a lot transporting it, spent money on a pod for storage, a shed to holdall the stuff kicked out of my garage.. etc. So the for sale price is not eventhe price it will be when you actually have it, but even so, I don't think youcan find less expensive than the right uncompleted project.. and piets arepretty reasonable for the most part. For a one holer the smith mini's seem togo cheap as projects.. but I could barely fit in one when I was 10 yrs old, by11 they were too small.Anyway, thats my thought on it.By the way I am snowbound in a hotel, trying to get from Seattle to my fabric coveringclass, all the passes are closed.. its just part of the adventure.JimRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Front Page News, Dick Navratil on Sport Aviation Cover!Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 07:04:19 -0600

Original Posted By: Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC]
I waited to respond till my issue came today and I got a chance to see the article.Thanks Mike, I grabbed an extra copy of the 1999 Sport Aviation that featured your plane and your pics have been on the board in my hangar ever since. I still watch your video occasionally on winter nights.Skip Gadd had a huge role in this building projects, keeping me from making some big mistakes.P.F Beck was also a big help with the volunteers and building at SNF.I took the idea for the center section radio cut out from Jack Phillips.Greg Cardinal and Dale Johnson built a great elevator linkage system and provided me with the help to copy. Greg also helped with the fuel tanks.There are too many people on and off of this list to recall right now, but thanks to all.Dick N. ----- Original Message -----

Original Posted By: "Jack T. Textor"
Amsafetyc wrote:> FYI, neither is mine, but its still a Piet, wide body and improved to meet myneeds. Guess what, here's a real surprise I even used epoxy rather than thepurist casein glue, that Bernie and all the other purist used in their builds.All the purists out there building are using casein glue, aren't they?> > Actually, if its not the exact same materials, constructed using the same techniquesand tools, hand saws etc exactly the way Bernie did it than by thepurist definition none can be called a Piet.> > However, following the innovative spirit of Bernie its creator and the ideaof it being experimental in nature, design and construction, well you decide.> > JohnAnd does your name have to be Bernie too..? This purist thing is sometimes a bitmuch. You can bet your whatevers that if a decent quality epoxy system was offthe shelf when BHP was building he might have taken a hard look at more modernalternatives. After all, he seemed to have developed an interest in Corvairengines in the '60's. To me, a Pietenpol is a personal thing - IMHO if you wantto do this and that to make it your own, then that is bang on in the spiritof the aircraft. Vive le difference!--------Piet-builder-who-hopes-to-be-flying-next-summerRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Front Page News, Dick Navratil on Sport Aviation Cover!Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:47:39 -0600