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Originally Posted by dlfrisch
I have a single engine pilots license and I was with some other pilots at a couple of meetings and a few times, I watched some sections of a Pietenpol being built by an acquaintance of a friend of mine. The builder guy had real nice Model "B" (4) rebuilt and ready to be installed. My friend, a past Alaska bush pilot was test flying it and the "B" quit. I don't know way, but he was just over the air port grass strip and near by rough brush area, put it down and walked away with some scratches. The plane had some pretty major injuries, but he put it back together, the last time I knew.
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DL
When I started flying my ultralite trike somebody told me any landing you can walk away from was a good one, and if you can fly the rig again it was a great landing.
