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...
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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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....