---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Fri 06/20/03: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 08:22 AM - Re: split axle landing gear (Gadd, Skip) 2. 07:41 PM - Re: Sentimental Journey (Gene Rambo) 3. 10:04 PM - Re: Sentimental Journey (cat_designs@juno.com) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 08:22:53 AM PST US From: "Gadd, Skip" Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: split axle landing gear --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Gadd, Skip" I was told by an old guy at Brodhead several years ago that the 1934 plans gear could spring "past center" and that is why it is good to use the Cub style gear using the V shaped cabane. Don't know if this is just Piet lore, but he claimed to have seen it happen on 9-27 at Brodhead. If you look at either type gear, from in front of the plane, there is a triangle formed where one side is the spring leg. The plans triangle has a bigger aspect ratio and I think that makes its spring leg have to work harder, and therefore not as efficient, that is why I chose the Cub style design. The SAA flyin was great, as Dennis said two Corvair Piets to ogle. Skip >I too would like to know what the benefit there is to this setup. ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 07:41:41 PM PST US From: "Gene Rambo" Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Sentimental Journey --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Gene Rambo" THAT'S IT!!!!! I AM BUILDING FLOATS FOR THE PIET AND BUILDING AN ARK TO BOOT!!!! I am so sick of rain. We are over 14" for the month, and several FEET over normal for the year. I just can't take it any more. Have not flown the biplane since October. Obviously, no Sentimental Journey this year, either. AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH Gene do not archive ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 10:04:30 PM PST US Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Sentimental Journey From: cat_designs@juno.com --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: cat_designs@juno.com Gene, So sorry to hear about your horible weather. Wether here is miserable here too, 87 derees light wind but there was one cloud in the sky to break up all that monotony of blue... Sorry, Chris Sacramento, CA do not archive n Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:41:19 -0400 "Gene Rambo" writes: > --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Gene Rambo" > > > THAT'S IT!!!!! I AM BUILDING FLOATS FOR THE PIET AND BUILDING AN > ARK TO > BOOT!!!! > > I am so sick of rain. > > We are over 14" for the month, and several FEET over normal for the > year. > > I just can't take it any more. Have not flown the biplane since > October. > Obviously, no Sentimental Journey this year, either. > > AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH > > Gene > do not archive > > > > > > > > > > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!