Pietenpol air camper hobbyking product video hobbyking live. Great pleasure to finally present the first airtoair video with kajsa and ownerbuilderpilot per widing. Pietenpol air camper radio control scale model quote. The plans for the 1934 improved air camper have never been updated on the plans. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, this was less expensive than the model a used in the air camper. The plans were published as a 4part series in flying and glider manual 1932. Once facetoface with farmer, pietenpol told the crowd, i believe that this is the safest airplane for. About the pietenpol air camper plan this plan is 915. Pietenpol air camper this is a radio control semiscale civil airplane that can be flown at a park. Good flyer freercplans free rc plans free control line plans free free.
Most pietenpol builders ive met really enjoy this part of the process but i dont think its for everyone. It was a sturdy and lightweight plane, with a twentyninefoot wingspan and a sixtyfivemileperhour cruising speed. Plans support one or three piece wing, standard and extended fuselage, engines ford model a, corvair, a65, other. Pietenpol air camper 10654 model aircraft, paper models. The pietenpol sky scout is a little less in length than its bigger brother the pietenpol air camper. Skyraccoon is the largest online icon database about rc model flying and its growing each day. There is an active forum community who will help along the way but if youre looking for a more step by step build experience the pietenpol is not it. About the pietenpol air camper plan this plan is 3. It has been downloaded 302 times by fellow modelers from around the world.
The pietenpol air camper was a revolution in the homebuilt aircraft world. This, of course, means that your copy will reflect the original first run of drawings by orrin hoopman. I built this pietenpol air camper about three years ago and pulled it out to fly again flys great love this plane built in the flitetest swappable method music by please. Pietenpol cherry grove, minnesota 1928 pietenpol air camper. Of course the original pietenpol plans were for the model a ford engine. Kevins pietenpol air camper plans built project duration. Steel tube pietenpol fuselage with landing gear and 12 x 4. Collection of free vintage model aircraft plans to download. Pietenpol builders forum brodhead pietenpol association.
The pietenpol air camper is one of aviations iconic homebuilt aircraft. First flight of jacks pietenpol air camper sc99 3152015 duration. Hobbyking pietenpol aircamper v2 its back rc groups. Wonthaggi is situated in the south east corner of australia. Pietenpol air camper kits california power systems. Pietenpol air camper the plans for my pietenpol air camper long fuselage arrived on 11 feb 2008, and the construction process started shortly thereafter. Kit supports both original length fuselage and extended length fuselage build. Vintage models paper models planes camper aviation aircraft how to plan bag airplanes. Your own set of original pietenpol air camper plans.
Nov 28, 20 i can still recall the very first picture of a pietenpol i ever saw, a grainy black and white image in peter bowers the 25 most practical homebuilts. Pietenpol air camper kits from aircraft spruce canada. The best advice i can give you is to build a mockup out of cheap wood, pvc pipe or cardboard and see if you fit. Pietenpol aircamper 84in plans aerofred download free. The only plans that you can use are really simply copies of the original 1932 or 1934 plans. The plus plans include shop size 18 x 24 copies of the 1934 series of eight original plans to build the improved air camper as drawn by orrin hoopman. Bernard pietenpol never lost sight of the cost of flying and showed his true genius in keeping the construction cost. The basic plan was followed adding structural modifications, detail, a larger power plant, and weight. This is the chronicle of the construction of my aircamper. The prototype was powered with an ace fourcylinder, liquidcooled engine, but the ford model a later became the engine of choice. This is exactly how my grandfathers best friend built one during the depression in wisconsin. The original model was flown using an ace four cylinder watercooled engine. Bernard pietenpol designed and flew this aircraft, with a ford model a engine in the first years of the 1930s.
They are in like new condition and have never been used. The air camper was designed to be built of spruce and plywood. Read the article published in the island record on december 10th, 1982. Plans are available as a free download from amas website. The story about the time that ned spent years building his own airplane in a barn was told many times. It still has graceful styling, predictable flying qualities, and easy construction. When orrin died in 2001, don pietenpol became the primary source and sold plans from rochester until his death in 2014. Probably the largest challenge for anyone starting to build a pietenpol air camper is gathering all the updated changes to the airplane over its eight decades of development. In fact, he had finke fly a second model a powered airship to the flyin. I wanted to scratch build on the cheap since i had the power plant, servos, and coverlight. I can honestly say that i have never derived as much enjoyment from any model aircraft that i have built at any time in my life as the pietenpol air camper designed by don dombrowski and doug edwards. If you have access to a 3d printer, you can download free stl files for the engine, radiator and hoses from thingiverse. Pietenpol is a big guy 64 200lb and he flies a long fuselage air camper. To build a pietenpol air camper or sky scout, first you need a set of plans available from andrew pietenpol can be ordered on this website, and a work bench.
Pietenpol, the designer of the air camper, is deceased. Original plans developed and updated by the designer bernard h pietenpol. Pietenpol intended his parasol design to be easy to build and fun to fly and the air camper was just that. Licensed to youtube by dig dis on behalf of disco revenge. The planes plans were published in the magazine and it became a favorite homebuilt airplane, which continues to this day. It has been downloaded 482 times by fellow modelers from around the world. This is a modern plan in pdfvector format for a scale model of the 1932 air camper update 210320. See more ideas about aviation, camper and aircraft. However, dozens of other engines have been hung on air campers over the years. Now i am not sure why exactly, but i will be trying again at brodhead 2016, and we will see where i need to change things. The pietenpol sky scout is very like the pietenpol air camper but with a single seat for the pilot and a unique dampening landing gear.
So i have just looked into getting a pietenpol kit. Plans and materials for building are available today. There is no pietenpol factory to which you can ask questions. Pietenpol decided to make the flight in his air camper up to minneapolis to prove the editor wrong. Hobbyking pietenpol air camper v2 70mm bluesilver arf. After several weeks of shop prep, ive finally started building my air camper, a scratch wood and fabric build that was originally designed and flown in 1929 by bernard pietenpol. Ar2 ar2 balsa ari ar2 332 x 14 balsa 116 x 18 balsa elevqtor throw. The pietenpol air camper continues to be a successful design for the same reasons homebuilders were so fascinated by the design 87 years ago. Replaced this plan with a better version now scaled up to fullsize, thanks to billmz quote.
The aircraft was redesigned for the heavier, lower power engine by reducing it to a single person aircraft. It is a singleplace airplane designed in the 1920s by bernard pietenpol. Purchase the original pietenpol air camper and sky scout aircraft plans and aircraft kits from bernard pietenpol s family bernard h. I have completed a new project and sold the pietenpol in july 2009 to make room for it. As small communities go, he ran into a few naysayers who warned him that he would never be able to build the airplane to actually fly. These are the same plans as sold by bernard pietenpol.
Not all issues are posted here but more may become available in the future. Using a lower cost ford model t engine, rather than the more current ford model a engine of the time. This is patterned after the gear we built for my pietenpol in 1999, which our demo pilot gus warren confirmed to allow the plane to be three pointed about 8 mph slower. Orrin sold the 1932 modern mechanics plans, the 1934 improved air camper plans, and the 1933 sky scout plans as published in modern mechanics magazine, which were not drawn by orrin, but by a mm staff draftsman. May 01, 2015 the gear is significantly lengthened from the plans, allowing the top longerons to sit at 12 degrees in the three point position. The first prototype that became the air camper was built and flown by pietenpol in 1928. The sky scout was a lower cost followon to the pietenpol s first homebuilt design, the pietenpol air camper. This standoff scale model of the famous homebuilt aircraft of the 1930s is an aircraft that is easy to build and one that offers more. Pietenpol air camper construction pietenpol aircraft company.
Here are the profile and prop plans of the pietenpol ship cur area. Designed by sid miller and published on model airplane news, october 1973. Pietenpol air camper, a really neat plans built airplane. In 1932 the flying and glider manual presented the construction article on the full size homebuilt of the air camper.
This was an especially nice one with a rotec radial engine and really fine worksmanship. John purchased a set of plans to build a replica 1933 pietenpol air camper. The first time that i tried on a pietenpol i ran into a major issue. The following is a photographic survey of piet powerplants through the years. Pietenpol air camper, singleengine twoseat parasol aircraft.
Pietenpol air camper v2 red with asp 5cc four stroke engine. Pietenpol air camper history pietenpol aircraft company. This auction is for a supplement to the original plans including a set of 15 prints for the pietenpol aircamper 2 place aircraft. The pietenpol air camper is a twoseat, highwing parasol homebuilt monoplane designed in 1932 by bernard pietenpol and was featured in a fourpart series titled 193233 flying and glider manual. Bernard pietenpol designed the air camper in the late 1920s as an affordable and attainable aircraft for the average person. Recently i have purchase a damaged pietenpol from the us and will be refurbishingrepairing it. However if you are on the smaller side, you will fit better. Bh pietenpol also designed and published plans for a singleseat version of the aircraft named the pietenpol sky scout, which was slightly smaller and was powered by the ford model t engine. Apr 25, 20 pietenpol air camper, a really neat plans built airplane.
The aircraft was constructed on wonthaggi, victoria, australia. The plans first appeared in the 1932 issue of popular mechanics flying and glider manual. To view my construction process, hover the mouse over the pietenpol project button. It was love at first sight, i ordered a set of plans from don pietenpol the next week, and 25 years later, the design and the people who love them still hold a place in my heart. The pietenpol air camper is a simple homebuilt aircraft designed by bernard h. Originally, the idea of modifying the fuselage scared the heck out of me, but i have become comfortable with the idea.
Pietenpol air camper 244 21 15 625 385 140 1,080 28 5 40 35 60 i 30 pounds. Pietenpol airplanes built to the plans of my grandfather bernard h. In april of 1929, he brought a model a engined twoseat airplane air camper to minneapolis, minnesota to show the editor of modern mechanics magazine that an auto engined airplane could indeed fly. See more ideas about ford models, aviation and aircraft. The plans for the pietenpol air camper were originally published in a four part serial in the flying and glider manual of 193233. Pietenpol air camper hobbyking product video youtube. This is the pietenpol air camper listing page, here you can download the plan, article and see the main thumbnail and extra images. This log details scratch building the pat tritle pietenpol air camper from free ama digital plans 17. Pats plans provide some details for creating your own model a ford engine for the pietenpol. Manual please take a minute to subscribe to the youtube channel thanks. Apr 15, 2019 vintage kit built airplanes that were powered by ford model t and model a engines. Plans are available for this aircraft from his son.
Matronics pietenpol list for compiling the list this ford watercooled four cylinder inline engine and a nearly infinite number of variations of it defines pietenpol power. Plans support one or three piece wing, standard and extended fuselage, engines ford model a, corvair, a65, other, and wooden or. Selected back issues of the brodhead pietenpol association newsletter are available here for download. It has been downloaded 479 times by fellow modelers from around the world. Air camper and sky scout are low in cost, durable and most of all, fun probably, the biggest reason they are. He used simple materials and methods of construction combined with an affordable and available engine to create what many consider the first successful homebuilt design. Kevins pietenpol air camper plans built project youtube. The original model a powered light plane designed to get the best possible performance from a model a motor, to be easy to fly, and to get the most flying hours for the money invested. In an era where barns became aircraft factories, bernard h. The pietenpol air camper continues to be a successful design for the same reasons homebuilders were so fascinated by the design 87. The pietenpol air camper is a simple parasol wing homebuilt aircraft designed by bernard h. Plans, with their drawings, specifications, and instructions are ed material. What you will receive are copies of the exact same plans that bernard and orrin and don pietenpol sold eight 18 x 24 shop size plans. Pietenpol air camper kits pietenpol aircamper is low in cost, durable and most of all, fun.
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