More from the Buckeye Pietenpol Association

The complete text of BPA Newsletter Number 1 (from 1983.)
The Mailbagcolumn from BPA Newsletter, issue #50.
The Mailbag and Good Luckcolumns from BPA Newsletter, issue #51. (April, 1996)
The Mailbagcolumn from BPA Newsletter, issue #52. (July, 1996)
The Mailbagcolumn from BPA Newsletter, issue #53. (October 1996)
The Mailbag column from BPA Newsletter, issue #54. (January 1997)
The Mailbag column from BPA Newsletter, issue #55. (April, 1997)
The Mailbag column from BPA Newsletter, issue #56. (July, 1997)
The Mailbag column from BPA Newsletter, issue #57. (October, 1997)
The Mailbag column from BPA Newsletter, issue #58. (January, 1998)
The Mailbag column from BPA Newsletter, issue #59. (April, 1998)
The Mailbag column from BPA Newsletter, issue #60. (July, 1998)

Pietenpols and Pietenpol projects
The articles and pictures available here are
from the files of the BPA Newsletter:

Craig Aho's Pietenpol Air Camper first flew March 16, 1996. Read Paul Taipale's account of the day.
(Revised 3/23/97) Dick Alkire is a founding member and the very first and only president of the BPA. (He did such a good job, we don't need a president anymore!) Here's a photo of Air Camper Alkire . . . with his airplane.
(1/10/97) Mark Anderson built and flew a Ford-powered Pietenpol Air Camper at the age of 16. Here's LeRoy Cook's 1989 Kitplane article about Mark and his Piet.
Matthew Arata's building tips Matthew' Piet Building Tips; or, how to not burn the house down, impress the ladies and do something useful at college!
The late Buz Baer's picture is on the 'net. Find out where.
Jim Ballew's Corvair-powered Air Camper and Corvair-powered Davis DA-2A.
A nice letter from Chris & Fran Barley in England, including a photo of G-BUCO -- built by Alan James. (9/23/96)
(11/03/97) To see what Mark & Matt Berger have been up to, click here!
(3/1/99) Christian Bobka desribes a great way to paint metal parts for airplanes; Powder Coating.
(10/24/96) Daniel Boyd sends us a wonderful story -- with pictures -- about an early Buckeye Pietenpol Aviator: The Fun Flying Farmer!
Brodhead Piet Reunion, 1996 A photo by Steve Landfried of the finest Pietenpol gathering in the world.
. . . and here's a newspaper article written about the '98 event.
(1/25/98) Jack Broomall sent us pictures and a nice update on his Air Camper project. See what Jack's been up to right here.
Mike Brusilow's Pietenpol Air Camper. See a color picture here.
(10/8/96) Doug Bryant's fine Ford-powered Pietenpol Air Camper first flew in the summer of 1996. See the cover story of BPAN issue #53 (October '96) for more. And here's a later report on Doug's fine ship!
Lift struts of wood? Here's more about wood lift struts used by Clyde Buckley and others.
Steve Cavanagh is a long time member of the BPA. He's been using aluminum V-8 engines to power Pietenpol Air Campers most of that time. Here's a photo and brief story from the BPA Newsletter #53 published in October, 1996.
(6/25/98) Michael Cuy of Valley Center, Ohio built a beauty of an Air Camper. Here are some photos and updates during the building. Then, Michael and friends take his ship to the airport and Michael flies it!
Harley Dahler had his Pietenpol Air Camper on dispaly in the EAA Museum for quite some time. Harley tells us a bit about it with a letter and picture.
(12/10/98) Danilo De-Maria is building a Pietenpol -- in Switzerland. See it here.
Door Prarie Museum has a Pietenpol Air Camper in its collection. Here are some color pictures.
Scott Dufreche and his 'A'-powered Air Camper project (and Scott with some non-Pietenpol airplanes at Sun 'n Fun '96.)
And . . . stop by for a visit in the workshop of Katie Dufreche.
You'll want to see these great photos of Chris Egsgaard by Bill Dasse.
(7/28/97)Steve Eldredge (Steve runs the Piet Chat Group) has a nice home page with pictures of his nearly-complete Piet project and -- "pictures of my solution for a fuel sight gauge that cost less than $10 too."
(4/21/97) Model "A" Ford engines were Mr. Pietenpol's choice of power for his first sucessful two-place airplane. Here's a chart showing the torque and horsepower curves of the old mill -- and why our favorite four-banger is still such a good choice today. (More about this in the video.)
Dynamometer Tests of the Model 'A' Here's where you get the article Ron Kelly tests the Model "A" engine.
(11/7/96) You've heard about The Model 'B' Ford engine! Want to see what one looks like? This 200K JPEG image gives a good view of a 'B's' innards. And, the "Model 'C' myth" is dispelled by Gar Williams.
Bad babbitt? So -- you've heard about bad babbitt and you want to see what it looks like?
(3/23/98) The 1932 Flying and Glider Manual was where it all started for thousands of amateur aircraft builders. Here's the cover of the original -- not to be confused with EAA's version available today.
(4/9/97) Lowell Frank flew a Funk engine in his Piet for many years. Boy, did that ship climb fast! The last time he gave me a ride, he was flying another very hot Piet. Here's a draft of an article describing how he's been playing with the old Ford engine to make it produce over 70 hp.! (More in BPAN issue #56.)
Skipp Gadd checks in with a nice report on the progress he and Gary Barger are making in Asheville, NC. Read Skip's April, '96 letter and see a picture of two more Piet projects underway. More in BPAN #53.
(6/4/98) In the genuine Pietenpol plans and building articles, B. H. Pietenpol specifies metal thickness as a 'Gage', which seems to baffle many builders in the late 1900's. So your BPA provides a U. S. standard gage chart.
Fred Gleiter's 'A'-powered Air Camper.
Wil Graff kept a log of flying from Wadsworth to Brodhead and back in 1995. It was in issue #52 of the BPA Newsletter; you can read it right here.
John Greenlee's 'A'-powered Air Camper project.
(1/20/99) A five cylinder radial. Probably too light for a Piet, but you've just gotta see HCI's little round engine with VW jugs. It's especially for homebuilders, and designer Jack Hereford has a nice article about radial theory and design posted here too. (This site is no longer maintaind by gem; direct your questions to HCI.)
Don Hicks's Pietenpol Air Camper project with a March, '96 letter from Don.
In 1989 Grant MacLaren wrote an article for EAA's Sport Aviation about Howard Henderson's Model 'A' Ford-powered Pietenpol Air Camper.
Here's more of the A-powered Pietenpol Air Camper built by Howard Henderson.. It's now owned by Joe Santana.email Joeright here.
Keith Hodge, Pietenpol builder in the U.K. has sent us some pictures and a brief description of his Air Camper project.
(3/14/99) He sent some more today!
Rosebud, Alberta 1968 -- Fly with Wendell Hughes on a cool day in the month of May.
(5/27/98) The history of C-FAUK. Read Brian Kenney's article from Issue #60 of the BPAN.
(rev. 10/22/98) Jim Kinsella's Pietenpol Air Camper project. See color pictures of it at Brohhead '96.
Craig Lawler's Pietenpol Air Camper. Her's a color picture of it taken September 3, 1996.
Jim Malley built a Ford Fiesta-powered Piet that gets a lot of attnetion everywhere it goes. Here's a photo and caption provided by BPA member Bob Bailey.
Arthur Mason's 83 year-old Dad goes for a Piet ride.
Many have asked for a scan of Arthur Mason in G-ADRA leading us on a tour of some countryside in England.
Well, here it is --- for possible use as a background in your screensaver.
(8/20/98) Jack McCarthy has been flying his Ford-powered Pietenpol Air Camper since November of 1997. He calls it his Last Hurrah. (But it's not!)
(2/9/97) You won't want to miss the report from Simon McCormack. He's our builder" down under" in Tasmania. More in BPAN #56.
Larry McKinney is a Model 'A' hot rodder who is rebuilding an "A" Speedster that was first built in his father's Pietenpol hangar. You may know his father -- Piet builder Jack McKinney. Check out the Speedster.
(3/23/97) BPA member Todd Miller makes and sells cast aluminum valve covers for Corvair-powered Piets.
Model "A" Ford Fans willl want to visit this page we've created especially for them. Check it out!
(11/7/97) Tom Nolan sends us pictures of upstate New York fall colors. (As mentioned in BPAN #58, page 3.) (10/18/96) Earlier, Tom provided some Pietenpol wisdom.
Builder/pilot Frank M. Pavliga takes his six-day old son Stevan Bernard, wife Gail and daughter Katie for a tour of the skies around the patch. It's a four passenger Pietenpol! More in BPAN #51. Here are somephotos of Frank and his Pietenpol.
(1/5/97) Bill Poiry's Air Camper project.
Yesterday's Wings and Aero Museum Here's an update (2/'96) on the doin's of Garry Price at the Yesterday's Wings at Hampton Airfield in New Hampshire. Read about the museum -- and find an order form for the various plans offered by Yesterday's Wings.
Garry flew his gorgeous Pietenpol Air Camper for the first time in September, 1995. Here's the story of its first flight in Garry's own words!
A Piet for the driveway M. H. Proffitt (408 Upper Dixie, Oakland KY 42159-6817) has been at it again -- this time he built a ''to the plans'' Air Camper for his grandchildren. Here's one of the kids ready for a flight down the driveway!
(11/15/98) Piet project progress. Kevin Purtee (604 Esperson Ln., Dayton TX 77535-8948) supplied these pictures of his project in November of 1998.
(8/19/97) Bill Rewey was featured on the front page of the Waunakee Tribune. Earlier, Bill showed us a picture of the cabanes on his nice Air Camper NX17WR -- the one he flew from Wisconsin to Sun 'n Fun 1996 - - - and again in 1997!
(10/22/98) Ruth M. Rhinehold wrote the book Sky pioneering -- Arizona in aviation history. In it, she tells the story of an Arizona Pietenpol. (c. 1982, The University of Arizona Press, ISBN 0-8165-0737-6)
Joe Santana now owns and flies 444MH, the Model 'A' Ford-powered Pietenpol Air Camper built by Howard Henderson. You can email Joe from here.
(3/26/98) Edilson Secoo is building a Ford-powered Pietenpol . . . in Brazil! Check it out right here.
(11/1/96) Sparky Sparks tells of flying low and slow from California to Brodhead and back . . . via Mexico! (From BPAN issue #55.)
What's a Lincoln Sport Biplane doing on a Pietenpol world wide web site?
Find out right here. See Denny Trone's Lincoln Sport Biplane -- in color -- at the Brodhead Pietenpol Reunion '94 -- and learn why it's on this Pietenpol web site.
(1/14/97) Doug Williams shows us his full scale rubber-powered Piet!
Weight and Balance -- This 1994 BPAN article is a "must-read" for anyone building a Piet.
And don't miss the excellent article on the same subject by Bill Rewey in issue #58. (Not yet available on the web.)
(rev. 10/22/98) Allan Wise and his Air Camper "Ol' Pete" are hits whereever they go. Here's a photo of Allan giving a "Young Eagle" her first flight in the summer of 1996.

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