I just saw the article in the latest Sport Aviation about the group
build of six steel-tube fuselage Pietenpols and thought that maybe some
of the group would like to see plans for another steel-tube Pietenpol
variant.
My airplane is the Pfeifer Sport, build by Joe Pfeifer in 1975. He was a
friend of Bernie's back in the good old days and built a steel-tube
version of the Piet in 1930 and also powered it with a Model A engine.
He built the Corvair powered version I own in 1975 after Bernie had
started using Corvairs in his Piets.
Joe also built World War I replicas, with his Sopwith Pup and Nieuport
17, both with Le Rhone rotaries, displayed at the Flying Lady Restaurant
in Morgan Hill in the south San Francisco Bay area for many years.
The fellow who drew up the blueprints for Joe was Ivan Dunlop, who had
built a beautiful Model B powered Piet that was also displayed at the
Flying Lady and is now rebuilt and flying from the South County airport
museum. Ivan visited me here in Sonoma and got his first ride in the
Pfeifer. Although he had drawn up the plans, he never got a ride when
Joe owned the airplane.
Since my copy of the plans were aging, I had them scanned and saved as
.pdf files to preserve them. I had contacted Ivan's widow to try to find
the original vellums, but could never track them down, so I think these
are the only plans still in existence.
If anyone would like a copy of the plans on disc let me know. I'll also
scan the original 1976 Sport Aviation article written by Bill Turner and
make that available. $5 ought to cover the cost of mailing and the disc.
I hope to make it back to Brodhead again this year. It will be a while
before I can get the Sport back there since I'm rebuilding the engine
when I can steal time from work and other obligations.
Darrel Jones
Pfeifer Sport N154JP
Sonoma, CA