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Pietenpol Air Camper

2008-11-19 13:45:33.474013+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

On Sunday morning, Charlene and I got on the tandem and rode over to the east side of town, down around Schollenberger park and along the river and the wetlands, and then up by the airport. Stopped and watched the activity along the line, and got out of the way for a guy driving, must have been a Model A, out of the gate. He stopped and got out, and I asked if what he flew was as classic as what he drove.

He said "kinda, it's a Pietenpol Air Camper". We talked for a bit, he said "yeah, you make the turn from cross-wind on to final, looking toward the runway there's struts and wires everywhere, it's a 13 year old boy's dream". Now that I'm home I can see what that means: Here's the journal of a guy building one, Wikipedia's page on the little two seat high wing open cockpit plane has a few pictures, the EAA has a little squib on the "light sport aircraft" before there was such a distinction, and now I want to see this guy's plane.

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#Comment Re: made: 2008-11-19 16:25:54.219787+00 by: petronius

I hope the guy is a better airplane builder than he is a webpage designer.

I also was reminded of the Flying Flea, France's answer to the homebuilt aircraft craze. As the designer said, if you could build a packing crate you could build a Flea. Of course, since it violated most of the laws of aerodynamics, a number of its pilots were buried in that crate.