Builders,
I received a short note from Minnesota 750/Corvair builder Dave Griggs saying that Don Pietenpol had passed from this Earth. Don was an aviator in his own right, but he has done tremendous work making his father’s (Bernard Pietenpol) designs and perspective available to new generations of experimental aircraft builders.
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The link at the bottom has some nice pictures of Vi Kapler’s model A powered Piet. Vi is the one that gave me the Corvair head tool that I traded to you for push rod tubes.
Thank you for this wonderful article and I’m glad my grandfather affected your life in such a positive way. He did the same for me and is greatly missed.