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Originally Posted by El Rat
I just don't get it? Sorry! Obviously it can be done but what's the point? g
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El Rat, point taken.
Guys, let me be perfectly clear here in that I've never considered the early Ford V8 to be the ideal motor for an airplane. Same for the Model T and A engines that the Pietenpol and a few others were designed around. The Pietenpol is not an airplane to load up the family and fly cross-country for Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma's. It is a very-limited puddle jumper with an enormous vintage appeal due, almost entirely, to its archaic engine installation.
I am NOT considering this plane as viable transportation, an aerobat, and definitely not cutting edge design.
This plane will have one distinct purpose: To get attention at the gas pump.
Now, what old car nut cannot understand THAT concept???
Harvey