Pietenpol-List: building table with most miles on it

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:43 pm

Original Posted By: "C N Campbell"
Howdy, Pieters-Two years ago at Christmas, my wife and I drove to Shreveport to collect some buildingmaterials from Corky Corbett, who built NX41CC- the Piet that I now ownand fly. Among the materials that Corky relieved himself of was a buildingtable upon which he constructed two other Piet airframes (I believe). Anyway,we took that table home to San Antonio with us along with enough raw stock toconstruct a complete Piet fuselage with plywood sides, wing spars, and rib stock.Last Saturday, Dec. 10, I loaded up that building table and all the raw stock alongwith everything else in my hangar in San Antonio except for Scout (who willhave to wait till spring 2012 to fly back up here to Oregon with me) and spentthe last week driving from Texas to Oregon and just this weekend unloadedeverything and got the building table all set up, along with tools and materials.I hereby lay claim to the Air Camper building table with the most miles on it:2,540 miles. Picture attached, showing the table in its new location under mytemporary "aircraft factory". Very faintly visible on the plywood are the outlines,in pencil, of the Improved Air Camper fuselage framing along with variouspencil notes that Corky has made. I'm happy to own this piece of Pietenpolconstruction history.--------Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXAir Camper NX41CCRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ttachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/p101 ... __________

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:30 am

Original Posted By: "taildrags"
Sorry OscarI carried my table to Sun n Fun and back 1650 mi each way and built my fuselage there.Dick N.----- Original Message -----

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:31 am

Original Posted By: Dan Yocum

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:30 pm

Original Posted By: Dan Yocum
Winter just might be my favorite time to fly.... for about 10 minutes at a time!I think I left nose prints on my windshield from trying to get in too close.Dan, you need to get some skis! Hey, why don't we have a Pietenpol Ski Fly-in?I'll host..... in Ohio. Ha!Don EmchNX899DERead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:51:51 -0600

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:09 pm

Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Lucky you, to be able to fly. Here at Smith Mountain Lake it's 56=B0, with nowind, clear skies and unlimited visibility ' and the runway=92s closed withheavy equipment all over it, sealing cracks in the asphalt. Jack PhillipsNX899JPSmith Mountain Lake, Virginia-----Original Message-----

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:24 pm

Original Posted By: Oscar Zuniga
Dick wrote:>Sorry Oscar>I carried my table to Sun n Fun and back 1650 mi each way and built>my fuselage there.I hereby withdraw my claim to having the building table with the mostmiles on it, and bow at the feet of a better-traveled Piet builder!Dick, you're amazing. I know that you and the other folks who take onthe building project year after year are planting seeds, kicking offnew projects for new Piet builders, and showing how it's done. My hatis off to you, sir!Oscar ZunigaAir Camper NX41CC "Scout"Flying Squirrel N2069Z "Rocket"Medford, OR website at http://www.flysquirrel.net ________________________________________________________________________________

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