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April 16, 2018 | | 17,095 Views

Do you ever dream of building a full-scale aircraft? Here's a 1920's style biplane that you can put together yourself.

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March 22, 2018 | | 6,130 Views

If you want to add an extra personal touch to your RC planes, here's how to design some simple graphics.

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February 7, 2017 | | 69,294 Views

A step by step DIY guide to build the FT Pietenpol!

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November 20, 2018 | 8,772 Views

Red Bull gives you wings, but can you give Red Bull wings to fly RC?

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January 27, 2017 | | 33,442 Views

Josh takes us for an in-the-cockpit look at his Pietenpol designed back in the 1920's.

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July 30, 2018 | 13,313 Views

Here's what you can build with Flight Pack F along with other details you might find helpful!

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April 16, 2018 | | 13,394 Views

Sometimes, aircraft design takes a slightly unorthodox route. Here are ten aircraft that were absolutely​ bonkers.

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January 26, 2017 | | 10,589 Views

Today, we have Josh Bixler and Josh Scott on the FIRST Flite Test video podcast EVER!

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*Unofficial* Mini Pietenpol

The FT Mini Pietenpol was designed to honor the vision and benefits of its full-size, two-seat, big brother. It is simple, fun and easy to fly while also being easy to build. These characteristics were the goal of the original 1928 design by Ber...

144% Pietenpol is now Flying

[ATTACH=full]133439[/ATTACH] With a 42" wingspan & "B" power pack, it flyes very "scale like" - could use a "C" motor, but I havent decided yet. Nice & stable though....

150% Modded Pietenpol

So after the success of my last modded Pietenpol build I thought about how to push the build skills a little further. So 150% was the way to go. Spent nearly 2 weeks figuring out how inkscape works to scale and modify plans. Never used any type of CA...

32" Pietenpol Air Camper restoration

When I got to the airfield the guys said, "We saved an airplane for you!". Someone was giving away a whole collection of RC airplanes and stuff. It was already picked over thoroughly but as they said this old balsa and tissue Pietenpol Air Camper was...

Ailerons in the Pietenpol?...

Hi all, has anyone fitted ailerons in a FT Pietenpol? I know the guys at the field will berate me for building a 3 channel 'plane. Martin...

Bixler's Pietenpol

Who thinks it would be awesome if Flite Test made a Pietenpol based of Josh's out of balsa, and even more importantly, made it available on the store? I think it would give more publicity to the balsa/dark side of R/C flight (or should I say [U]flite...

FT Mini Pietenpol Build

Hello readers, I am new to rc plane building but I love to fly rc planes. I decided to build the FT Mini Pietenpol from their kit. I didn't buy the power pack that they had suggested but instead got parts from several sources. I have finished the bu...

FT Pietenpol

If I have learned about FT designs is that you just don't throw them together and off they go. So, what am I looking at for issues that this plane has? The only mini that I have built that didn't require many changes was the TT....