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10-17-2014, 07:14 AM | #1 |
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David Comstock's Pietenpol
On our recent Model a trip to Montana we found this interesting story in Roundup Mt. In 1932 17 year old David Comstock built the Pietenpol from scratch using a model a engine. Here is a link to the story http://www.mvhm.us/pietkids.pdf
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10-17-2014, 08:47 AM | #2 |
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Re: David Comstock's Pietenpol
This is a really great story and an inspiration to work with students on some projects i have always wondered how a model a carburetor works in an airplane when the amount of fore-aft and side tilt can be so extreme? The gas would just fall out.
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10-17-2014, 11:18 AM | #3 |
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Re: David Comstock's Pietenpol
I have a single engine pilots license and I was with some other pilots at a couple of meetings and a few times, I watched some sections of a Pietenpol being built by an acquaintance of a friend of mine. The builder guy had real nice Model "B" (4) rebuilt and ready to be installed. My friend, a past Alaska bush pilot was test flying it and the "B" quit. I don't know way, but he was just over the air port grass strip and near by rough brush area, put it down and walked away with some scratches. The plane had some pretty major injuries, but he put it back together, the last time I knew.
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Re: David Comstock's Pietenpol
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10-17-2014, 05:22 PM | #6 |
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I heard somewhere that the engines were upside-down. This sure isn't. How could they be upside-down and oil the bottom end? Tod |
10-17-2014, 05:32 PM | #7 |
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Tod...I guess you would have to fly it upside down. This one and others I've seen in pictures are upright, but backasswards.
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Doesn't the pilot get tired of staring at the radiator all the time?
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