Subject: Pietenpol-List: Hello from Italy!>Hi to all!>>Just joined the Pietenpol discussion List and I'd like to make a>brief introduction... My name is Andrea, 31, and I'm from Italy. I'm>a hobby model retailer and I've been an aeromodeller for the past 26>years. My experience with homebuilding started when I was 17 and a>friend of mine asked me to help him in the restoration of his Super>Cub. I happily started what eventually would evolve in a 2000 hour>restoration on my part, plus 4000 hours on my friend. (a few months>ago this very airplane underwent his first 500-hour inspection).>Thereafter I started building my own creature, a Volksplane VP-1,>which made his first flight, after about 3000 hours of work, at the>end of July 1999 and is now going through its test flight schedule.>Now the workshop was supposed to remain empty, so to avoid this>undesiderable condition
another VP started taking shape a few>months ago (a friend decided my experience would have become wasted>so he made a hard sacrifice on his own allowing me to help him with>this construction ), a Falco F8L is planned to be begun next year>and my father, who helped me 50/50 on my VP, is starting his own>Pietenpol Air Camper, and that's the very reason now I'm here with>you guys . I do hope both to find THE answer for all the questions>and to be helpful on my part for others.>>>SeeYa!>>Andrea Vavassori>>Volksplane VP-1 I-BYRA>First Flight July 25th, 1999>EAA #348037>CAP #1080>>Homepage: http://www.modelberg.com>I-BYRA homepage: http://www.modelberg.com/vp.html (under construction)>ICQ #15014472>snail mail: Via Moroni, 66>>________________________________________________________________________________