Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Patches, Anchorage, and the buildapaloozaTo all Piet'ers:This is an interesting story and we will provide more details later, butthanks also need to go to the EAA Chapter in NM, and to FAA's AngieSlingluff that asked me about a project on behalf of the school at an AlaskaAviation Heritage Museum function less than a month ago. Also on theatta-boy list is Carlile Transportation who will take the Aerial andtransport it from New Mexico to Anchorage at no cost to the middle school. Harry MacDonald, the CEO of Carlile is a pilot, (originally from Fairbanks)and also offered to have his shop welders help out with a new set of landinggear once the airplane is in place and the school has started on theproject.I am sure you will hear more about this in the future but again, thanksOscar!RobRob Stapleton, PhotojournalistAnchorage, Alaska907-230-9425KL2ANSkype:rob.stapleton.jrIM Windows Live Messenger: foto(at)alaska.net-----Original Message-----
Pietenpol-List: Patches, Anchorage, and the buildapalooza
Pietenpol-List: Patches, Anchorage, and the buildapalooza
Original Posted By: "Ryan Mueller"
AMSafety wrote->You're quite the resource and Piet champion.Corky made me this way ;o) Chuck Gantzer and Mike Cuy weren't anyhelp either, with their videos and nifty flying Pietenpols.>congratulations on a job well done. Saved a PietI'm going to have to step off the stage and say that the thanksshould go to Jeff Scott, president of EAA Chapter 691 and longtimefriend. He is responsible for helping the original builder along,caring for the project after her demise, arranging for dispositionof the project out of her estate, arranging for my acquisition of afew things that I wanted off the airplane after I bought it from thechapter and donated it to the Anchorage group, and it looks like hewill ultimately be responsible for crating it up for shipment andseeing that it gets sent off in good shape. Jeff is good people; thebest. He's a builder's builder and does it because he loves to.>Now for the more challenging the patch or patches. We should have>one for the Piet and its creator and a special edition 80th year>anniversary patch for Brodhead and Oshkosh.I think it would be just as well to do one "patchapalooza" patch ;o)Most companies have an artwork and/or setup fee and if we stick toone patch, we'll maximize the bang for our buck. That's what Pietbuilding and flying is about... affordable and fun.>it just seems fitting to celibate the aircraftWell, I guess after 80 years, most of us are celibate whether we wantto be or not ;o) I'm only 57 but my dad-gone blood pressure medicationseems to be taking some of the compression out of my cylinders, if youcatch my drift ;o) But we can still fly and enjoy it, and that's morefun than we deserve to have, sometimes. Yes, let's "celebrate" theaircraft!>It's a tremendous legacy that should be advertised rather than kept>within the circles of just we few. Its just too important an aircraft>to go unnoticed.It's not that it's gone unnoticed, it's just that it's an old wood andfabric open-cockpit airplane and there are fewer and fewer builderswho are interested in that. More and more of them want sleek, fast,"glass panel" zoomers that resemble the cars that they drive. Thereare fewer and fewer people who are willing to endure flying low and slow over the countryside with the wind whipping in their faces, fueland exhaust smells drifting into the cockpit, airspeed crowding 70MPH on a good day, sights and sounds coming directly to the pilot,no digital radio or Ipod, no electrics, no starter, no nothing. Sowe'll just have to enjoy one another's company while there are stillthose among us who are interested in these old airplanes. And witha history 80 years long now, I'll bet there will pretty much alwaysbe a few like us who have that interest, that joy, that connection.Oscar ZunigaAir Camper NX41CCSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:18:44 -0600
AMSafety wrote->You're quite the resource and Piet champion.Corky made me this way ;o) Chuck Gantzer and Mike Cuy weren't anyhelp either, with their videos and nifty flying Pietenpols.>congratulations on a job well done. Saved a PietI'm going to have to step off the stage and say that the thanksshould go to Jeff Scott, president of EAA Chapter 691 and longtimefriend. He is responsible for helping the original builder along,caring for the project after her demise, arranging for dispositionof the project out of her estate, arranging for my acquisition of afew things that I wanted off the airplane after I bought it from thechapter and donated it to the Anchorage group, and it looks like hewill ultimately be responsible for crating it up for shipment andseeing that it gets sent off in good shape. Jeff is good people; thebest. He's a builder's builder and does it because he loves to.>Now for the more challenging the patch or patches. We should have>one for the Piet and its creator and a special edition 80th year>anniversary patch for Brodhead and Oshkosh.I think it would be just as well to do one "patchapalooza" patch ;o)Most companies have an artwork and/or setup fee and if we stick toone patch, we'll maximize the bang for our buck. That's what Pietbuilding and flying is about... affordable and fun.>it just seems fitting to celibate the aircraftWell, I guess after 80 years, most of us are celibate whether we wantto be or not ;o) I'm only 57 but my dad-gone blood pressure medicationseems to be taking some of the compression out of my cylinders, if youcatch my drift ;o) But we can still fly and enjoy it, and that's morefun than we deserve to have, sometimes. Yes, let's "celebrate" theaircraft!>It's a tremendous legacy that should be advertised rather than kept>within the circles of just we few. Its just too important an aircraft>to go unnoticed.It's not that it's gone unnoticed, it's just that it's an old wood andfabric open-cockpit airplane and there are fewer and fewer builderswho are interested in that. More and more of them want sleek, fast,"glass panel" zoomers that resemble the cars that they drive. Thereare fewer and fewer people who are willing to endure flying low and slow over the countryside with the wind whipping in their faces, fueland exhaust smells drifting into the cockpit, airspeed crowding 70MPH on a good day, sights and sounds coming directly to the pilot,no digital radio or Ipod, no electrics, no starter, no nothing. Sowe'll just have to enjoy one another's company while there are stillthose among us who are interested in these old airplanes. And witha history 80 years long now, I'll bet there will pretty much alwaysbe a few like us who have that interest, that joy, that connection.Oscar ZunigaAir Camper NX41CCSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:18:44 -0600
RE: Pietenpol-List: Patches, Anchorage, and the buildapalooza
Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
To all Piet'ers:This is an interesting story and we will provide more details later, butthanks also need to go to the EAA Chapter in NM, and to FAA's AngieSlingluff that asked me about a project on behalf of the school at an AlaskaAviation Heritage Museum function less than a month ago. Also on theatta-boy list is Carlile Transportation who will take the Aerial andtransport it from New Mexico to Anchorage at no cost to the middle school. Harry MacDonald, the CEO of Carlile is a pilot, (originally from Fairbanks)and also offered to have his shop welders help out with a new set of landinggear once the airplane is in place and the school has started on theproject.I am sure you will hear more about this in the future but again, thanksOscar!RobRob Stapleton, PhotojournalistAnchorage, Alaska907-230-9425KL2ANSkype:rob.stapleton.jrIM Windows Live Messenger: foto(at)alaska.net-----Original Message-----
To all Piet'ers:This is an interesting story and we will provide more details later, butthanks also need to go to the EAA Chapter in NM, and to FAA's AngieSlingluff that asked me about a project on behalf of the school at an AlaskaAviation Heritage Museum function less than a month ago. Also on theatta-boy list is Carlile Transportation who will take the Aerial andtransport it from New Mexico to Anchorage at no cost to the middle school. Harry MacDonald, the CEO of Carlile is a pilot, (originally from Fairbanks)and also offered to have his shop welders help out with a new set of landinggear once the airplane is in place and the school has started on theproject.I am sure you will hear more about this in the future but again, thanksOscar!RobRob Stapleton, PhotojournalistAnchorage, Alaska907-230-9425KL2ANSkype:rob.stapleton.jrIM Windows Live Messenger: foto(at)alaska.net-----Original Message-----
Re: Pietenpol-List: Patches, Anchorage, and the buildapalooza
Original Posted By: Michael Perez
Rob, you have so many irons in the fire I don't know how you get it all done. A really great job you pulled off! I know it took a great amount of work for the two of you. It just goes to show what an Alaskan and a Texan can do.Gene in Tennessee ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:38:40 -0800 (PST)
Rob, you have so many irons in the fire I don't know how you get it all done. A really great job you pulled off! I know it took a great amount of work for the two of you. It just goes to show what an Alaskan and a Texan can do.Gene in Tennessee ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:38:40 -0800 (PST)
Re: Pietenpol-List: Patches, Anchorage, and the buildapalooza
Original Posted By: "Rob Stapleton, Jr."
This has evolved into quite the undertaking. The story with photographs shouldbe put together and submitted to the EAA for publication. I think it shows the spirit, dedication and commitment to a project as embodiedin the experimental aircraft home builder. John Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry-----Original Message-----
This has evolved into quite the undertaking. The story with photographs shouldbe put together and submitted to the EAA for publication. I think it shows the spirit, dedication and commitment to a project as embodiedin the experimental aircraft home builder. John Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry-----Original Message-----
RE: Pietenpol-List: Patches, Anchorage, and the buildapalooza
Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Hey thanks!Well I am not sure that anything is really getting done--but we are surehaving some fun putting this together. Really this Aerial project sort offell together--Angie asked me, I asked the list and Oscar made theconnection--we need to thank the list for being here too! Alaskans andTexans have always been able to make things happen. Look at the 800 mileTrans Alaska Pipeline for example!Thanks for noticing.Regards,RobAnchorage, AK-7F this morning!-----Original Message-----
Hey thanks!Well I am not sure that anything is really getting done--but we are surehaving some fun putting this together. Really this Aerial project sort offell together--Angie asked me, I asked the list and Oscar made theconnection--we need to thank the list for being here too! Alaskans andTexans have always been able to make things happen. Look at the 800 mileTrans Alaska Pipeline for example!Thanks for noticing.Regards,RobAnchorage, AK-7F this morning!-----Original Message-----