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1. 04:26 AM - Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West (Jack)
2. 05:21 AM - Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West (jarheadpilot82)
3. 06:19 AM - Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West (oldbird)
4. 06:21 AM - Re: Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West (Jack Philips)
5. 05:48 PM - Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West (Jim Boyer)
6. 08:58 PM - Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West (taildrags)
7. 09:16 PM - Re: Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West (Ray Krause)
8. 09:37 PM - Vi Kapler hinges (Oscar Zuniga)
9. 09:42 PM - Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West (taildrags)
10. 10:43 PM - Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West (aerocarjake)
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| Subject: | Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West |
Oh jeez, what sad news! Dick gave me my second ride in a Piet. A fine fello
w alway willing to give. Will miss him very much. My thoughts and prayers t
o all...
Sent from my iPad
Jack Textor
> On Jun 6, 2015, at 5:23 PM, "Greg Cardinal" <gcardinal@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Richard M. Navratil
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> Navratil, Richard M. Age 66, of Arden Hills. Died suddenly on June 4, 2015
. Survived by wife, Joan; son, Jason (Sara) Gillet; daughter, Jen (Justin) V
ojtech; grandchildren, Boone, Judah, Renley, Wyatt & Colton; siblings, Chuck
Navratil, Neil Navratil, John Navratil, Mary Bergh and Anita Ziebarth; also
many nieces and nephews. Mass of Christian Burial 11:00 AM Wednesday, June 1
0, 2015 at the CHURCH OF ST. STANISLAUS, 398 Superior Street, St. Paul. Visi
tation 4-8 PM Tuesday at Willwer-scheid Funeral Home, 1167 Grand Ave., St. P
aul. Memorials preferred to the Wounded Warrior Project. Willwerscheid Funer
al Home & Cremation Service 651-228-1006
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| Subject: | Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West |
For those of you who do not always like the things that William Wynne writes, I
think that you would agree with him in his latest posting. Here is a link to
a very nice posting in Dick's memory-
http://flycorvair.net/2015/06/07/dick-navratil-passes-from-this-earth-june-4th-2015/
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Semper Fi,
Terry Hand
Athens, GA
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| Subject: | Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West |
I am deeply sorry for Mr. Navratil's passing away. Although I never had the chance
of knowing him personally, I definitely knew his creation: The Rotec Pietenpol.
Semih
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| Subject: | Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West |
Well said. There is no telling how many lives Dick touched, and how many
people decided that they too could build an airplane just from talking with
Dick or working with him at the woodworking forum at Sun 'n' Fun. He was a
true gentleman and a good friend. Here's another of the (sadly, growing)
list of cellphone numbers that carry in my phone, of friends who have Gone
West. For some reason I can't bring myself to delete them.
Jack Phillips
NX899JP
Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia
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For those of you who do not always like the things that William Wynne
writes, I think that you would agree with him in his latest posting. Here is
a link to a very nice posting in Dick's memory-
http://flycorvair.net/2015/06/07/dick-navratil-passes-from-this-earth-june-4
th-2015/
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Semper Fi,
Terry Hand
Athens, GA
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| Subject: | Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West |
Hi Greg and all,
Just got home from West Coast Pietenpol flyin. Gary Boothe showed me your e
mail about Dick. Really sorry to see that note but thank you for keeping us
all in touch.
Dick gave me my first ride in a Pietenpol and you had Gary Boothe with you
right behind Dick and me.
=C2-
Will miss you all at Brodhead this year but hopefully see you next year. Ha
ve a toast to Dick for me.
Jim Boyer
=C2-
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| Subject: | Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West |
I never met Dick in person; never even spoke to him. I only 'knew' him through
this list, through our mutual connection to the Pietenpol Air Camper, and by
a few dozen posts that he made to this list. Dick was a doer, not a writer or
a theorizer. Counting on my fingers (and maybe a few toes), I can count the
number of people on this list that I've actually met and still fewer who I consider
to be close personal friends. Nevertheless, I feel like I know all of you
quite well, like I know your airplanes and your projects. It's a good thing.
Dick contacted me a year or two ago about borrowing my set of plans for homebuilt
plywood Muktuk floats. I was delighted to loan them to him so that he and
Skip Gadd or whoever his co-builder is at the workshop could get a start at putting
a homebuilt airplane on homebuilt straight floats. Last I heard, the floats
had been assembled but nothing was yet worked out as far as figuring out
mounting points, water rudders, and rigging to fit them to an airframe. I pointed
Dick to a website where you can buy rudder kits for sea kayaks and I thought
they might be easy to fit to the floats and provide a retract mechanism, but
I don't know if he ever had time to play with them.
I think it would be a nice gesture, and very much in keeping with Dick's contributions
to experimental aviation and bringing new builders into the fold, if whoever
knows about the floats could perhaps keep the idea alive and maybe sometime
in the near future somebody could splash a little water in Dick's face with
the floats that he built. I don't even know if he intended to fit them to
an Air Camper. In fact, I don't know if Mr. Pietenpol himself ever lived to see
floats fitted to an Air Camper. Now wouldn't that be something... to have
a Piet on floats show up at the Oshkosh seaplane base one of these years!
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power
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| Subject: | Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West |
Great idea! Although I missed the WestCoast Piet meet this weekend, seems someone
close to Frazier Lake might be interested especially if the floats could be
amphibs. Hint, hint!
Ray Krause
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> On Jun 7, 2015, at 8:57 PM, taildrags <taildrags@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I never met Dick in person; never even spoke to him. I only 'knew' him through
this list, through our mutual connection to the Pietenpol Air Camper, and by
a few dozen posts that he made to this list. Dick was a doer, not a writer
or a theorizer. Counting on my fingers (and maybe a few toes), I can count the
number of people on this list that I've actually met and still fewer who I consider
to be close personal friends. Nevertheless, I feel like I know all of
you quite well, like I know your airplanes and your projects. It's a good thing.
>
> Dick contacted me a year or two ago about borrowing my set of plans for homebuilt
plywood Muktuk floats. I was delighted to loan them to him so that he and
Skip Gadd or whoever his co-builder is at the workshop could get a start at
putting a homebuilt airplane on homebuilt straight floats. Last I heard, the
floats had been assembled but nothing was yet worked out as far as figuring out
mounting points, water rudders, and rigging to fit them to an airframe. I pointed
Dick to a website where you can buy rudder kits for sea kayaks and I thought
they might be easy to fit to the floats and provide a retract mechanism,
but I don't know if he ever had time to play with them.
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> I think it would be a nice gesture, and very much in keeping with Dick's contributions
to experimental aviation and bringing new builders into the fold, if
whoever knows about the floats could perhaps keep the idea alive and maybe sometime
in the near future somebody could splash a little water in Dick's face
with the floats that he built. I don't even know if he intended to fit them to
an Air Camper. In fact, I don't know if Mr. Pietenpol himself ever lived to
see floats fitted to an Air Camper. Now wouldn't that be something... to have
a Piet on floats show up at the Oshkosh seaplane base one of these years!
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> Oscar Zuniga
> Medford, OR
> Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
> A75 power
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| Subject: | Vi Kapler hinges |
Update on the cast aluminum tail hinges. Monday I'm mailing out John Recin
e's hinges (thanks for your patience=2C John). Next on the list are Bill B
udgell=2C Clay Hammond=2C and John Hofmann=2C if you fellows are still inte
rested in a set. If there is anybody that is desperate to have a set or is
completely stalled in your build without them=2C let me know and perhaps s
omeone at the head of the list will give way to you. I currently have 13 p
eople on the waiting list for sets of hinges and I'm woefully behind in del
ivering them=2C but if I can get some free weekends this summer=2C I can cu
t the waiting list by half. Maybe the other half will have their hinges fo
r fall and winter building?! I could turn them out twice as fast if I had
a helper=2C but it's all hand work and I don't have anyone with the heart o
r desire or knowledge to help me make them. It's OK though... like the Air
Camper=2C I'll get there eventually =3Bo)
I am growing to admire Vi Kapler more and more every time I finish a set of
these hinges. His jigs and methods are completely true to the 1930s way o
f doing things=2C especially before we had access to CNC mills=2C molded ma
terials=2C and so much precision machinery in the home workshop. The tooli
ng (if you can call it that) is simple and it is tedious to turn out the pa
rts one at a time. The parts that are produced are completely different fr
om one piece to the next but they are rugged and simple. I do not=2C and c
annot=2C finish them to complete polished finality. It would simply take t
oo much time and effort=2C and I find that most Air Camper builders would r
ather put the finishing touches on things themselves anyway. Although the
parts can be used as-is=2C right out of the box=2C with just a little final
fitting to make them run freely throughout their arcs once they are pinned
and in place they will make the builder much happier with the outcome. I l
eave them just a bit tight and beefy when I finish them so that they can be
filed or ground down to suit the builder in each of the nine different pos
itions where they are mounted on the tail group. It's better to smooth the
m out with a little filing as you fit them than to wonder how you can remov
e excess play if I finish them too loose. But like I say=2C anyone can ins
tall them in the as-received condition and in just one or two flying season
s they will smooth out nicely if they're a bit tight to begin with.
In any case=2C if I sell a set of hinges to anyone who is not happy with th
em=2C I will gladly take them back and deliver a full refund. Thanks all
=2C for your patience.
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
Medford=2C OR
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| Subject: | Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West |
Amphib floats would be more work, Ray. The Muktuk floats are not designed with
the internal bracing to carry axles and all that. I'm sure it could be done
though.
I have to hand it to floatplane pilots who only fly on straight floats. You either
find water to land on, or you go for what floatplane pilots call an "off-field
landing" in a whole nother sense! I think I would look for a field of strawberries
or tomatoes, or something else that was wet and juicy to land in ;o)
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power
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| Subject: | Re: Dick Navratil - Gone West |
Wow, this is really sad news. Although I never met him in person, Dick was always
very helpful in discussing his Piet and ROTEC on the phone. Sadly I will now
never get to meet him....
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Jake Schultz - curator,
Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home)
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