Pietenpol-List Digest Archive

Mon 01/06/03


Total Messages Posted: 23



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     1. 07:12 AM - fuselage step (John and Susan)
     2. 07:54 AM - Re: fuselage step (Isablcorky@aol.com)
     3. 08:14 AM - the Fisherman (Oscar Zuniga)
     4. 08:18 AM - cockpit steps (Oscar Zuniga)
     5. 08:33 AM - Re: cockpit steps (Isablcorky@aol.com)
     6. 08:36 AM - Re: the Fisherman (Isablcorky@aol.com)
     7. 10:40 AM - change of email address (Brants)
     8. 01:13 PM - well, some of his pages are still around..... (Jim Markle)
     9. 02:17 PM - Fisherman (lshutks@webtv.net (Leon Stefan))
    10. 02:41 PM - How many of you have instruments in the front hole? (walter evans)
    11. 02:54 PM - Re: How many of you have instruments in the (Michael D Cuy)
    12. 03:26 PM - Re: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? (Isablcorky@aol.com)
    13. 03:30 PM - Re: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? (John McNarry)
    14. 03:36 PM - Re: well, some of his pages are still around..... (Isablcorky@aol.com)
    15. 04:18 PM - Re: well, some of his pages are still around..... (walter evans)
    16. 05:23 PM - Re: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? (Graham Hansen)
    17. 05:27 PM - Re: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? (Michael Conkling)
    18. 05:47 PM - Repost of Corona query (ADonJr@aol.com)
    19. 05:54 PM - Mud bugs, casinos, tail draggers....... (Jim Markle)
    20. 07:44 PM - Details, details (Ted Brousseau)
    21. 08:00 PM - Re: Fisherman (Jeffrey Wilcox)
    22. 08:14 PM - Re: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? (Alex Sloan)
    23. 08:36 PM - Re: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? (John McNarry)
 
 
 


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    Time: 07:12:07 AM PST US
    From: "John and Susan" <sjficklen@mchsi.com>
    Subject: fuselage step
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "John and Susan" <sjficklen@mchsi.com> HI Guys; I'm new to this group. I'm building a long fuselage, 3 piece wing,split axle,Cont A75 powered Aircamper so ya,ll will here me whining from time to time.I am about50-60% there. Need some ideas about a fuselage step to get my tired ass in the seat. I'm in the Fla. panhandle Cheers; John Ficklen


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    Time: 07:54:55 AM PST US
    From: Isablcorky@aol.com
    Subject: Re: fuselage step
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Isablcorky@aol.com New Pieter, I installed a "step" to assist ingressing the pit. It is a 5/8 4130 tube about 12" inside the fuse lieing on the ash member under the seat. A hole drilled in the ply. Two holes drilled to accept bolting to ash. About 6 inches of pipe is exposed for the foot. Two washers are welded to position the foot. A simpleminded man can devise a simple solution. Don't forget those extra wing tanks and ping pong balls for distance and floatation if you want to join out crusade in 04. Corky in La triming the borders of his charts


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    Time: 08:14:35 AM PST US
    From: "Oscar Zuniga" <taildrags@hotmail.com>
    Subject: the Fisherman
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Oscar Zuniga" <taildrags@hotmail.com> Walt was wondering how the Fisherman's project was coming along. I went back through the archives to find websites where he had posted progress photos and info, but none of the links work. Looks like he may have gone back to Belize... Oscar Zuniga (do not archive) San Antonio, TX mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com website at http://www.flysquirrel.net


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    Time: 08:18:44 AM PST US
    From: "Oscar Zuniga" <taildrags@hotmail.com>
    Subject: cockpit steps
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Oscar Zuniga" <taildrags@hotmail.com> John asks about a step to help get into and out of the cockpit. There are some pictures of Ernie Moreno's Piet on my website, at http://www.flysquirrel.net/piets/piets.html and especially the photo at http://www.flysquirrel.net/piets/engine01.jpg that show the little step that Ernie's plane has. This one places all the load on the gear leg and not the fuselage structure. I think Corky's plane also has a step of some sort (was it a section of tube that pulls out, Corky?) Oscar Zuniga San Antonio, TX mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com website at http://www.flysquirrel.net


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    Time: 08:33:39 AM PST US
    From: Isablcorky@aol.com
    Subject: Re: cockpit steps
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Isablcorky@aol.com It's a section of tube but it doesn't pull. Just sticks out for a good step and some added drag. Corky in La calculating drag, floatation and fuel consumptation above 12K.


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    Time: 08:36:41 AM PST US
    From: Isablcorky@aol.com
    Subject: Re: the Fisherman
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Isablcorky@aol.com The crusaders will inquire about him as we go through in 04 and make a report to the net. Corky in La installing a shoulder harness in the front pit.


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    Time: 10:40:30 AM PST US
    From: "Brants" <tmbrant@uswest.net>
    "Tim Brant" <timbrant@rocketmail.com>, "Scott Ripley" <captainpirahna@yahoo.com>, "Ron Becwar" <becwar75@yahoo.com>, "Ron & Kim Becwar" <kimb@alpinecom.net>, pietenpol-list@matronics.com, mtwirth@attbi.com, "Mom and Dad Brant" <rmbrant@uschristian.net>, "Kevin P. Olson" <kpo@centerlineflight.com>, jmripley@genesiscc.org, "Jill White" <jillybean135@juno.com>, "Jennifer S Ripley" <jennrip@regent.edu>, "Jamison Cockerham" <jcockerham@thedoor.org>, "Greg Cardinal" <gcardinal@startribune.com>, "Dave Brant" <dbrant@mn.rr.com>, "Daniel Kallberg" <dkallberg@msn.com>, "Dan Brant" <dpbrant@speakeasy.net>, "connie walker" <connieinwi@hotmail.com>, "...annette" <brissebunch@earthlink.net>
    Subject: change of email address
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Brants" <tmbrant@uswest.net> Everyone: we have changed our email address to tmbrant@usfamily.net please update your address books. thanks, Tom and Michelle


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    Time: 01:13:31 PM PST US
    From: "Jim Markle"<jim_markle@mindspring.com>
    Subject: well, some of his pages are still around.....
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Jim Markle"<jim_markle@mindspring.com> the fisherman, that is.... http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/retired/pietpage5.html I'm not saying you SHOULD access this particular web page, hey, enter at your own risk!! :-) Too bad Corky's Piet isn't here.....he and I could fly to Austin together tomorrow (and Thursday) for the day (would that be fun, or what?) instead of me having to RENT a plane.....arghhhh..... Jim in Plano....


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    Time: 02:17:10 PM PST US
    From: lshutks@webtv.net (Leon Stefan)
    Subject: Fisherman
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: lshutks@webtv.net (Leon Stefan) Please don't encourage this guy or he will be back. Let the Home Depot lawyers check his web sight. Leon S. Do not archive.


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    Time: 02:41:53 PM PST US
    From: "walter evans" <wbeevans@worldnet.att.net>
    Subject: How many of you have instruments in the front hole?
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "walter evans" <wbeevans@worldnet.att.net> My winter project was going to be putting a compass( which I already have), airspeed and altimeter in the front hole. But I'm torn both ways. Do the people you take for rides get a kick out of , or really use, the instruments? If the plane is used for your BFR, should you have these in? Do you HAVE to have them in? Either way I'll put in the compass. Guess what I asking, is for the guys that have been flying the Piet for years, Do you have them, or would you consider them completely useless. thanks walt NX140DL (north N.J.) ps maybe best to put my money into ping-pong balls


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    Time: 02:54:59 PM PST US
    From: Michael D Cuy <Michael.D.Cuy@grc.nasa.gov>
    Subject: Re: How many of you have instruments in the
    front hole? --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Michael D Cuy <Michael.D.Cuy@grc.nasa.gov> Walt---my CFI gives me a BFR with NO instruments in the front cockpit. Even the F-18 pilot I took for a ride last September said it was refreshing to just use the horizon and airplane for visual reference. When I let people fly from the front (once leveled off in cruise) they are having too much fun to care about instruments. (except the IFR guys:) Personally I to have instruments in the front you are paying to carry added weight for 95% of the time for nothing. Mike C.


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    Time: 03:26:00 PM PST US
    From: Isablcorky@aol.com
    Subject: Re: How many of you have instruments in the front hole?
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Isablcorky@aol.com Walt, Are you hinting you might sign on as another crusader?????????????????????? Corky, you know where, w/o snowballs Do not archive


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    Time: 03:30:26 PM PST US
    From: "John McNarry" <jmcnarry@escape.ca>
    Subject: How many of you have instruments in the front hole?
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "John McNarry" <jmcnarry@escape.ca> Been thinking about cockpit layout lately. I can read my tach and Airspeed indicator easily form where I'm sitting, they are on the shelf about five feet away. Why not mount the basic instruments at either side of the front cockpit in small nacelle type blisters so they can be seen from both cockpits. Then my bifocals wouldn't matter either;-) John -----Original Message----- From: owner-pietenpol-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-pietenpol-list-server@matronics.com]On Behalf Of walter evans Subject: Pietenpol-List: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "walter evans" <wbeevans@worldnet.att.net> My winter project was going to be putting a compass( which I already have), airspeed and altimeter in the front hole. But I'm torn both ways. Do the people you take for rides get a kick out of , or really use, the instruments? If the plane is used for your BFR, should you have these in? Do you HAVE to have them in? Either way I'll put in the compass. Guess what I asking, is for the guys that have been flying the Piet for years, Do you have them, or would you consider them completely useless. thanks walt NX140DL (north N.J.) ps maybe best to put my money into ping-pong balls


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    Time: 03:36:55 PM PST US
    From: Isablcorky@aol.com
    Subject: Re: well, some of his pages are still around.....
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Isablcorky@aol.com Jim, Why don't you hop a cassino bus to Shv $10, give me your eta, we'll go to Lucien, check you out on 41CC, bring your Memphis, Houston, Dal-FtW and San Ant sectionals and take a heading. Then you won't have to rent anything. Can't beat a deal like that. Only available to Pieters. Corky looking for some old National Geographic maps of the western hemi.


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    Time: 04:18:07 PM PST US
    From: "walter evans" <wbeevans@worldnet.att.net>
    Subject: Re: well, some of his pages are still around.....
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "walter evans" <wbeevans@worldnet.att.net> Hey Jim, Sound like a great deal to me! Now for eats,,,I smell Gumbo. Mud Bugs are your friend. walt do not archive ----- Original Message ----- From: <Isablcorky@aol.com> Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: well, some of his pages are still around..... > --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Isablcorky@aol.com > > Jim, > Why don't you hop a cassino bus to Shv $10, give me your eta, we'll go to > Lucien, check you out on 41CC, bring your Memphis, Houston, Dal-FtW and San > Ant sectionals and take a heading. Then you won't have to rent anything. > Can't beat a deal like that. Only available to Pieters. > Corky looking for some old National Geographic maps of the western hemi. > >


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    Time: 05:23:24 PM PST US
    From: "Graham Hansen" <grhans@cable-lynx.net>
    Subject: Re: How many of you have instruments in the front hole?
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Graham Hansen" <grhans@cable-lynx.net> John, Some old airplanes had instruments mounted in blisters, as you suggest. One could place the blisters forward on the underside of the center section, where they can be seen from both pits. Sure, they will add some drag---but then a Pietenpol isn't exactly streamlined, either. And some old aircraft (Fokker and Ford airplanes?) with three engines had engine gauges mounted on the inboard side of the wing-mounted engine nacelles. This shortened lines, etc. and simplified things. My Piet has instruments in the rear panel only. For a time I had a vane type ASI (similar to the one used on DH Moths) mounted on the left forward jury strut for anyone flying from the front. It worked fine. Graham Hansen (CF-AUN)


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    Time: 05:27:52 PM PST US
    From: "Michael Conkling" <hpvs@southwind.net>
    Subject: Re: How many of you have instruments in the front hole?
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Michael Conkling" <hpvs@southwind.net> Walt, I seem to remember my instructor being able to cover up the airspeed & altimeter with his hands in the Cub -- the A/S was left of center & the altimeter was on the right side of the panel. Should be easier to fly by sound in a Piet -- more wires whistling in the wind!! Ernst Udet had a his instruments mounted in a windshield shaped panel (outside of the cockpit) so he didn't need to look in the cockpit of his 1931 U-12 "Flamingo"! Mike C. Pretty Prairie, KS ----- Original Message ----- From: "walter evans" <wbeevans@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Pietenpol-List: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? > --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "walter evans" <wbeevans@worldnet.att.net> > > My winter project was going to be putting a compass( which I already have), airspeed and altimeter in the front hole. But I'm torn both ways. Do the people you take for rides get a kick out of , or really use, the instruments? > If the plane is used for your BFR, should you have these in? Do you HAVE to have them in? > Either way I'll put in the compass. > Guess what I asking, is for the guys that have been flying the Piet for years, Do you have them, or would you consider them completely useless. > thanks > walt > NX140DL > (north N.J.) > ps maybe best to put my money into ping-pong balls > >


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    Time: 05:47:28 PM PST US
    From: ADonJr@aol.com
    Subject: Repost of Corona query
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: ADonJr@aol.com Group, A few years ago, 1999, I think, there was a Piet fly-in at Corona sometime in April. Is there one on for this year? California Piet enthusiasts are curious. Thanx, Don Cooley


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    Time: 05:54:40 PM PST US
    From: "Jim Markle" <jim_markle@mindspring.com>
    Subject: Mud bugs, casinos, tail draggers.......
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Jim Markle" <jim_markle@mindspring.com> Good grief!!! Sounds like a great deal to me too!!!!!OK, I lived in Southern Louisiana for a while so I'm checked out on mud bugs (I know where the good stuff is and will GLADLY suck it out)....I'm checked out in Casinos (just so this message won't be off topic, when I started to go to the Benton Fly in a few months ago, the weather turned miserable so I stopped at a Casino in Tulsa for a few hours, came out about $600 ahead......)But I'm not checked out in Tail Draggers!!!!! I may just go do it before summer.....I've printed out Corky's offer and will keep it for when I AM checked out in tail draggers.....Only available for Pieters? I'll think I'll stay a Pieter!Messages like this make me want to run out into the garage and get to work!!!Jim in Plano......(just finished brazing up some fluting pliers, FINALLY decided on a fuel tank design and fuel line routing/valve location (which means the one I put together with 26ga galv sheet metal is scrap but it's a quick build, just figured out how I want to do the front cabane/firewall diagonal brace and generally having more fun than should be allowed)--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "walter evans" <wbeevans@worldnet.att.net> Hey Jim, Sound like a great deal to me! Now for eats,,,I smell Gumbo. Mud Bugs are your friend. walt do not archive ----- Original Message ----- From: <Isablcorky@aol.com> Subject: Re: well, some of his pages are still around..... > --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Isablcorky@aol.com > > Jim, > Why don't you hop a cassino bus to Shv $10, give me your eta, we'll go to > Lucien, check you out on 41CC, bring your Memphis, Houston, Dal-FtW and San > Ant sectionals and take a heading. Then you won't have to rent anything. > Can't beat a deal like that. Only available to Pieters. > Corky looking for some old National Geographic maps of the western hemi. >


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    Time: 07:44:59 PM PST US
    From: "Ted Brousseau" <nfn00979@naples.net>
    Subject: Details, details
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Ted Brousseau" <nfn00979@naples.net> I was wondering how those of you who put the about 1 inch wide curved stiffener on the panels on top of the fuselage (did I describe that correctly?) did it? It looks from the pics that the stiffener is attached to the back of the panel but it looks so perfectly round. I don't think I could get it that nicely aligned while the glue dried without a hint as how it is done. Jigs? Thanks, Ted


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    Time: 08:00:20 PM PST US
    From: "Jeffrey Wilcox" <craigwilcox@peoplepc.com>
    Subject: Re: Fisherman
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Jeffrey Wilcox" <craigwilcox@peoplepc.com> I still hear from him from time to time, mostly rambling on. In his last msg to me, he stated he had bought a cheap MIG unit from Home Depot, and was using it to weld up his steel parts. Don't know what he plans to do about normalizing . . . . His "airframe" is still sitting under the mango tree, getting ripe.


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    Time: 08:14:52 PM PST US
    From: "Alex Sloan" <alexms1@bellsouth.net>
    Subject: Re: How many of you have instruments in the front hole?
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Alex Sloan" <alexms1@bellsouth.net> Graham, I am curious in asking why you removed the vane type "ASI". Alex Sloan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Hansen" <grhans@cable-lynx.net> Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? > --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Graham Hansen" <grhans@cable-lynx.net> > > John, > > Some old airplanes had instruments mounted in blisters, as you suggest. One > could place the blisters forward on the underside of the center section, > where they can be seen from both pits. Sure, they will add some drag---but > then a Pietenpol isn't exactly streamlined, either. > > And some old aircraft (Fokker and Ford airplanes?) with three engines had > engine gauges mounted on the inboard side of the wing-mounted engine > nacelles. This shortened lines, etc. and simplified things. > > My Piet has instruments in the rear panel only. For a time I had a vane type > ASI (similar to the one used on DH Moths) mounted on the left forward > jury strut for anyone flying from the front. It worked fine. > > Graham Hansen (CF-AUN) > >


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    Time: 08:36:45 PM PST US
    From: "John McNarry" <jmcnarry@escape.ca>
    Subject: How many of you have instruments in the front hole?
    --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "John McNarry" <jmcnarry@escape.ca> Mike Another idea might be to close in the front pit and zip up a tonneau cover to your flying togs. Would keep the wind right out and with the instruments outside behind their own little windshield you could tolerate flying in colder weather. John -----Original Message----- From: owner-pietenpol-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-pietenpol-list-server@matronics.com]On Behalf Of Michael Conkling Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Michael Conkling" <hpvs@southwind.net> Walt, I seem to remember my instructor being able to cover up the airspeed & altimeter with his hands in the Cub -- the A/S was left of center & the altimeter was on the right side of the panel. Should be easier to fly by sound in a Piet -- more wires whistling in the wind!! Ernst Udet had a his instruments mounted in a windshield shaped panel (outside of the cockpit) so he didn't need to look in the cockpit of his 1931 U-12 "Flamingo"! Mike C. Pretty Prairie, KS ----- Original Message ----- From: "walter evans" <wbeevans@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Pietenpol-List: How many of you have instruments in the front hole? > --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "walter evans" <wbeevans@worldnet.att.net> > > My winter project was going to be putting a compass( which I already have), airspeed and altimeter in the front hole. But I'm torn both ways. Do the people you take for rides get a kick out of , or really use, the instruments? > If the plane is used for your BFR, should you have these in? Do you HAVE to have them in? > Either way I'll put in the compass. > Guess what I asking, is for the guys that have been flying the Piet for years, Do you have them, or would you consider them completely useless. > thanks > walt > NX140DL > (north N.J.) > ps maybe best to put my money into ping-pong balls > >




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