On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:47:23 -0500, "Peter Dohm"
wrote:

"Big John" wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:17:45 -0800 (PST), "(Keith Sowter)"
wrote:

Why were there not many Pazmany PL4's built ?

Here's one I saw Fly back in 1982 at Red Deer Alberta

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1019962/


Keith

errata

A USAF Advisor to the Tiawan Air Force suggested they build a Pazmany
as a primary trainer for the Tiawan Air Force.

They built over 50 of them and assisted the Air Force Advisor in
building one for him on their production line using their tooling
which he shipped back to States.

Big John


Were those PL2s? I have seen one PL2 in operation, and it would have been a
good plane for the job.

IIRC, before VanGrunsven revolutionized amateur metal airplane building, the
popular wisdom was that anyone who built a metal airplane really built 2--1
in wood and then 1 in metal. While not litterally true, the process of
building formers had to be remarkably tedious; so production tooling would
have been a really dramatic improvement and 50 airplanes were probably much
less than 10 times as much work as 1.

Peter



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Peter

Knew the ones they built were two place (had to be as a primary
trainer ) just didn't remember the model number given to them. Think
EAA had an article many years ago in Sport Avn about that bird he
built and brought back to US.

Google shows them as PL-1B's. Data also shows that some of them flew
10,000 hours as trainers so pretty tough birds.

No idea who owns that bird now. Seem to recall that the AF Pilot who
brought back died at a fairly early age (not in an aircraft accident)
as I remember.

Big John