Large 70 inch Pietenpol based on Flite Test plans

[SteveNeill]

I have been wanting a Pietenpol since I first saw one that my flight instructor had back in the 80s. When I saw the the air camper Flite Test had and that I could download plans I just had to do it. Flite Test has been great help with my endeavors and I have been getting much of my supplies from them lately. I even got their awesome hot glue gun that's a huge improvement on the ones I have in my shop.

I enlarged the plans in Photoshop and sent them in Lightburn where I traced them to vector drawings and started laser cutting the Flite Test foam board. It's a blue laser so I just cut through paper. It was easy after that to cut through the foam accurately.

I started the fuse Thursday and by today I had the whole fuse assembled. This will fly on 4 s. 70 inch span with a removeable wing for transporting.

I'm doing a modern version with a Cub style nose and cylinder heads I'll 3D print at my studio. This is so much fun!

I recently built their large Jenny. It was fun to build and it flew awesome.

 

[Mr Man]

I have been wanting a Pietenpol since I first saw one that my flight instructor had back in the 80s. When I saw the the air camper Flite Test had and that I could download plans I just had to do it. Flite Test has been great help with my endeavors and I have been getting much of my supplies from them lately. I even got their awesome hot glue gun that's a huge improvement on the ones I have in my shop.

I enlarged the plans in Photoshop and sent them in Lightburn where I traced them to vector drawings and started laser cutting the Flite Test foam board. It's a blue laser so I just cut through paper. It was easy after that to cut through the foam accurately.

I started the fuse Thursday and by today I had the whole fuse assembled. This will fly on 4 s. 70 inch span with a removeable wing for transporting.

I'm doing a modern version with a Cub style nose and cylinder heads I'll 3D print at my studio. This is so much fun!

I recently built their large Jenny. It was fun to build and it flew awesome.

Interested to see how this awesome project turns out! Nice build in that Jenny btw, looks amazing.👍

 

[SteveNeill]

I finished it. It flies great. These FT plans for the small mini air camper enlarged well and translated well to this 70 inch span version. Here's some pictures from maiden day. The Yak 17 is a scratch build I must have 50 flights on by now. 70mm fan, retracts and runs on 4s.

In the pictures with the Goldberg Tiger he built from a Goldberg kit. Wonderful flyer. Mark is an outstanding builder. The Dirty Bridy he built from scratch with vacuum bagged wings and a epoxy glass fuse.

 

[Mr Man]

I finished it. It flies great. These FT plans for the small mini air camper enlarged well and translated well to this 70 inch span version. Here's some pictures from maiden day. The Yak 17 is a scratch build I must have 50 flights on by now. 70mm fan, retracts and runs on 4s.

In the pictures with the Goldberg Tiger he built from a Goldberg kit. Wonderful flyer. Mark is an outstanding builder. The Dirty Bridy he built from scratch with vacuum bagged wings and an epoxy glass fuse.

The Massive f-86 in the background…👀😱😱

 

[Mr Man]

Great Job, looks amazing!!

 

[Mr NCT]

I finished it. It flies great. These FT plans for the small mini air camper enlarged well and translated well to this 70 inch span version. Here's some pictures from maiden day. The Yak 17 is a scratch build I must have 50 flights on by now. 70mm fan, retracts and runs on 4s.

In the pictures with the Goldberg Tiger he built from a Goldberg kit. Wonderful flyer. Mark is an outstanding builder. The Dirty Bridy he built from scratch with vacuum bagged wings and a epoxy glass fuse.

Very nice!

 

[telnar1236]

That's a big Pietenpol