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| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 07-Aug-17 21:44 |  | | Views : 443 | | Found it - William Lieb's sculpture, "Letting Go: A New Reality". The sculpture features a child releasing a homemade rubber band powered airplane. http://www.spencerdailyreporter.com/story/1580037.html |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 06-Aug-17 17:20 |  | | Views : 373 | |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 06-Aug-17 17:19 |  | | Views : 352 | |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 02-Aug-17 10:50 |  | | Views : 433 | | 18" Dumas AIR CAMPER - The little "Gypsy" flew like a charm this morning. This is my best close up pic yet, as she gracefully spun by ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 02-Aug-17 10:47 |  | | Views : 413 | | Fully repaired and ready to fly. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 02-Aug-17 10:45 |  | | Views : 429 | | 18" Dumas AIR CAMPER - for added strength, I added two "spacer doublers", double white glued between the Cabane struts and along the wing. I used the elastics to hold a "positioning plank" in order to locate the "spacer doublers" - I then just slid out the positioning plank, and let the doublers dry. |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 02-Aug-17 10:39 |  | | Views : 386 | | Elastics are used to hold the wing down into position. I then used 5 min Epoxy to glue the flying struts at their 4 locations on the fuse, and to glue the 2 forward cabane struts that were broken off at the wing. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 02-Aug-17 10:36 |  | | Views : 429 | | 18" Dumas "AIR CAMPER" - Crash Damage - flying wing struts broken at fuse in three places, and both forward cabane struts are broken off at the wing - front of wing is sticking up way high. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 27-Jul-17 14:06 |  | | Views : 427 | | No. 22 by Gustave Whitehead - replica built to prove it could fly ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 27-Jul-17 14:04 |  | | Views : 392 | | "No. 21" and "No. 22" by Gustave Whitehead 1901-1903 - now recognized as the "first" to fly ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 27-Jul-17 13:59 |  | | Views : 477 | | "VUIA 2" - by Trajan Vuia March 18, 1906 (six months before Santos Dumont) - The Romanians consider Vuia to be the first one who took off using the airplnae's own energy source ( ie, landing gear and motor, and not catapulted down a rail by sandbags falling from a tower and using no landing gear like the Wrights did). |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Dumas Kit #1803, Pietenpol Air Camper | Parked | 27-Jul-17 13:51 |  | | Views : 387 | | "VUIA II" 1907 - by Trajan Vuia |
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