Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: Ben Charvet
I had a little health scare recently. I noticed a dark blurry spot with distortion in my vision a couple weeks ago. Went to my optometrist yesterday who is a long time friend from high school. She identified the problem as macular edema (fluid under the center of the retina). She immediately scheduled an appointment with a retina specialist for today. After having my eyes dialated and filled with 4 different kinds of drops=2C poked=2C lenses literally stuck against my eye=2C blinded by light=2C flourescent dye injected into my veins and then flash blinded by 47 pictures I was diagnosed with cystoid macular edima ( the relatively benign kind that usually goes away on its own). The Dr. said it is almost always caused by stress.The moral is I guess I need to get back to building. It's a great stress reliever for me in the summer. In the winter I ski. Skied 77 days this year. Now if I could only figure out a way to build 77 days this summer. Doug DeverIn beautiful Stow Ohio _________________________________________________________________Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:51:01 -0400

Original Posted By: Rick Holland
Why wait 4-5 months to buy plans? You can't start building until you have plans!If you are interested in the Wynne Corvair conversion shoot me an email. We are putting our build on hiatus as we just have no space to build where we live right now, and can't spend enough time at the shop where we have the project. We're going to try to buy a flying Piet instead. As such we have our Corvair conversion parts for sale...pretty much everything you need to build a Wynne Corvair conversion: case, crank, heads, Wynne parts, overhaul parts. Everything reworked/new and ready to put together. Send me an email for details. Best of luck with your build!Ryanrmueller23(at)gmail.comOn Mar 27, 2010, at 12:35 PM, "gtche98" wrote:> >>> Good Morning All - Just wanted to take a minute and introduce > myself, as I will be spending time reading this list. My name is > Gary Wilson and as of now, I have not built an airplane, but helped > my father build a Questair Venture. It took him 20 years, but it > turned out to be a beautiful bird (see pic).>> Now with a family of my own, we are just about ready to start our > own "family" plane. While walking through the affordable flying > hangar at Oshkosh in 2008, I saw my first Piet, and have been > fascinated ever since. We have now settled on the Air Camper as our > family plane, and plan to start construction in the fall. Here is > my plan of action so far to get us to the August time frame.>> 1 - Join local EAA chapter and start attending regular meetings to > develop a network of local builders.> 2 - Attend Brodhead - Take as many notes and pictures as I can!> 3 - Oshkosh - spend time in the woodworking tent and study engine > options (especially William Wynne's Corvair option).> 4 - Order Plans>> As a first timer just getting started, I would certainly welcome any > advice you might provide as I get started. Also, if anyone is > building or has a Pietenpol in the Greenville (Appleton) Wisconsin > area, I would love to hear from you.>> I look forward to learning a lot from each of you!>> Gary>>> Read this topic online here:>> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... 947#291947>>> Attachments:>> http://forums.matronics.com//files/vent ... ______Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:46:08 -0600Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: A little health scare slightly off topic