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A Sky Scout is on display at the Pioneer Flight Museum in Kingsbury, Texas. [3] This Scout is powered by a Model A engine. It is intended to be a flyable aircraft but for the present is only occasionally run up. The number one Pietenpol with a 1921 Model T engine is on display at the Model T Museum in Richmond, Indiana.
BH Pietenpol also designed and published plans for a single-seat version of the aircraft named the Pietenpol Sky Scout, which was slightly smaller and was powered by the Ford Model T engine. [4] During the late 1920s and early 1930s, this was less expensive than the Model A used in the Air Camper. [9] UK LAA-approved Pietenpol Air Camper
Bernard H. Pietenpol (1901–1984) was an aircraft designer. A designer of homebuilt aircraft, Pietenpol was a self-taught mechanic who lived most of his life in the small community of Cherry Grove in southeastern Minnesota. His best-known design, the Pietenpol Air Camper, was meant to be built and flown by the "average American" of the 1930s. [1]
Copies in good condition (or even with some wear and tear) are incredibly rare, as evidenced by this copy that’s selling for a whopping $3,500 on Scout Stuff 4 Sale (talk about a niche market ...
The airplane most famously equipped with the Model A engine was the Pietenpol Air Camper, a popular homebuilt aircraft designed by Bernard Pietenpol, who eventually standardized his design on the Ford Model A engine. [10] [78] [79] [13] [75] Though all Pietenpol homebuilts put the engine in the nose of the plane, configurations varied widely.
The new Scout EV SUV is cool, but maybe you prefer something old-school. ... 1979 International Scout Is for Sale on Bring a Trailer. Brendan McAleer. October 25, 2024 at 7:17 AM.
Like many popular car engines of the era, the Model T engine was also used on home-built aircraft (such as the Pietenpol Sky Scout) and motorboats. During World War I, the Model T was heavily used by the Allies in different roles and configurations, such as staff cars , light cargo trucks, light vans , light patrol cars, liaison vehicles and ...
Wilbur L. Smith, was an experienced wooden construction aircraft homebuilder, having built a Pietenpol Sky Scout in 1930. [2] He designed the Termite using chalk on a basement floor. Don Cookman later drew up the plans. The aircraft is a braced parasol wing monoplane with all-wood construction. The exception being the motor mount, struts and ...