Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: "AircamperN11MS"
William you were reading my mind! After working out the time zone difference Icalled Mark yesterday as he got my heads off Roy at Oshkosh. Roy is building theshort block and Mark the heads so I am thinking how it would be best to getit all here. I need to talk to you about this. I measured my firewall yesterdayand the the distance you quoted above is 26 5/16 inches from memory. I havewidened the fuselage by approx 2 inches. I have flown a Piet here that was astandard size and although I am 6'1" and about 88kg, the extra couple of inchesmakes all the difference. Things are becoming very real after nearly 5 yearsof building.Scotty--------Tamworth, AustraliaBuilding a Corvair Powered Pietenpol Air Camperwww.scottyspietenpol.comFuslage now on its undercarriage! About to start wing spars...Corvair engine atRoy's Garage waiting to be modified.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: museum piet

Original Posted By: "Dennis Engelkenjohn"
Hi all, I just ran across this Piet at Creve Coeur airport in St Louis. The data platesays a guy named Doug Bryant built it in Wichita Kanas. I hadn't seen this onebefore. Meet to see.--------Scott LiefeldFlying N11MS since March 1972Steel TubeC-85-12Wire WheelsBrodhead in 1996Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ttachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/img_ ... __________

Original Posted By: AircamperN11MS
Doug Bryant was or is a friend of Chuck Gantzer also of Wichita. Chuck flew his red and silver Piet to Brodhead several times, the last being about 4 or 5 yrs ago. It was the year Brodhead hit 100 degrees and there was a strong wind from the east. Later in the week there was a big rainstorm at Oshkosh. They both built ford powered Piets about 15 yrs ago or so. Don't know about Doug, but Chuck felt his Ford was not reliable and replaced it with a Continental 65 (I think) Anyway, since he had the short wheelbase Piet, he had to build the motor mount way forward to get the weight and balance right.dennis-----Original Message-----