Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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
The St Croix Pietenpol Aircamper is an American homebuilt aircraft, an adaptation of the classic 1920s Pietenpol Air Camper, re-designed by St Croix Aircraft of Corning, Iowa. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a partial kit and in the form of plans for amateur construction. [1]
The Grega GN-1 Aircamper was a light aircraft developed in the United States in the early 1960s, [2] originally as a personal project of its designer, but later marketed in plans form for homebuilding.
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]
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 St Croix Pietenpol Aerial is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Chad and Charles Wille and produced by St Croix Aircraft of Corning, Iowa, first flown in 1977. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction, with partial kits available.
The Sky Scout was a lower-cost follow-on to the Pietenpol's first homebuilt design, the Pietenpol Air Camper, using a lower-cost Ford Model T engine, rather than the more current Ford Model A engine. The aircraft was redesigned for the heavier engine by reducing it to a single-person aircraft.
The RW1 was designed as a 3/4 scale ultralight version of the classic 1920s vintage Pietenpol Air Camper. [1] [3] [7] [8] The airframe is constructed entirely from wood and covered with aircraft fabric. The landing gear is of conventional configuration and the wings are detachable.