Today's Message Index:
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1. 08:13 AM - fatal gyro crash (Oscar Zuniga)
2. 09:54 AM - Re: fatal gyro crash (Eric Williams)
3. 11:41 AM - Highlight One (Matt Dralle)
4. 03:26 PM - slow Piet list (Oscar Zuniga)
5. 07:05 PM - Re: Disassembly and Re-Assembly (Larry Nelson)
6. 07:14 PM - Re: Disassembly and Re-Assembly (Dave and Connie)
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Subject: | fatal gyro crash |
--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Oscar Zuniga" <taildrags@hotmail.com>
Texas architect Ken Rehler fatally crashed in his award-winning gyro,
N100KR. Pictures of Ken and his gyro, with details of the construction, are
at http://www.rvk-architects.com/ken/gyro/ . The story in today's San
Antonio Express-News is at
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/crime/stories/MYSA111105.rehler.en.501920b8.html
No NTSB report yet.
Oscar Zuniga
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
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Subject: | fatal gyro crash |
--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Eric Williams" <ewilliams805@msn.com>
Very sad. Based on the article he sounds like a real nice guy. One
positive aspect of the article was that it was well written and accurate as
to the details of the gyro and didn't talk negatively about general aviation
or security or anything. That's refreshing these days. Still, the basic
point is that it's sad to see an innovator and true home-builder like him
go.
>From: "Oscar Zuniga" <taildrags@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com
>To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com, krnet@mylist.net
>Subject: Pietenpol-List: fatal gyro crash
>Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:12:49 -0600
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>--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Oscar Zuniga"
><taildrags@hotmail.com>
>
>Texas architect Ken Rehler fatally crashed in his award-winning gyro,
>N100KR. Pictures of Ken and his gyro, with details of the construction,
>are at http://www.rvk-architects.com/ken/gyro/ . The story in today's San
>Antonio Express-News is at
>http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/crime/stories/MYSA111105.rehler.en.501920b8.html
>
>No NTSB report yet.
>
>Oscar Zuniga
>San Antonio, TX
>mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com
>website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
>
>
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--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
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--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Oscar Zuniga" <taildrags@hotmail.com>
Sure has been quiet on the list lately. That being the case, I'll take up
some space by saying that I worked on rebuilding the pilot's seat this past
week and today. Took out the broken seat bottom, seat back, and seat
framing and scraped back to fresh wood. Cut, fitted, and glued in new seat
framing members. Measured, cut, and getting ready to install the seat
bottom plywood with some "inspection holes" cut in it to get to the cables
and pullies down there. Corky used pullies to route the cables under the
seat, rather than drilled holes as shown in the plans.
As long as I'm in there, I'm fabricating an experimental elevator trim
control using the "ball chain" method and a bungee off the elevator
bellcrank behind the seat. If it works, I'll draw a sketch or put some
photos on my website. For now, it's just an idea and I don't know if it
will work. It presupposes that nose-up trim will be required, so I'll have
to rig it that way or else try something else later. Corky had a bungee
setup that wrapped around the pilot's stick and could be slid up or down the
stick to give more or less back stick force, and I can always revert to that
setup if my scheme doesn't work.
Jumped into the front seat to show a hangar bum how easy it is to do. Ha!
It's still a trick to get into that front 'pit, and once into it, there
isn't a whole lot of room anyway. I can't imagine trying to get in there
wearing a parka and snow boots, but Santa's helpers seem to manage it every
Christmas and the jolly old gent can still slide his own tummy into the
pilot's 'pit somehow, too. He just doesn't have a lot of back stick in the
flare, with the stick all the way back and his belly sucked up to get that
extra few inches...
Sure is fun hanging around the airport on a Saturday, working on the
Pietenpol!
Oscar Zuniga
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
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Subject: | Re: Disassembly and Re-Assembly |
--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Larry Nelson <lnelson208@yahoo.com>
Let's say a guy pulls the wings off of a Pietenpol and
hauls it across the country to a fly-in and then
re-assembles it. With a three piece wing, it wouldn't
be more than an hour to put the wings back on. What I
am talking about is the need for an A&P to sign off
the work. I have a "friend" who has hauled his across
the country, and while it has since gone thru an
annual, no mention has been made of the
dis-mantlement, and the subsequent re-mantlement. Has
my "friend" got himself in trouble?
I think of this dilemma as I visited the website of
the unfortunate victim of the fatal crash of his
gyroplane, as he had hauled that thing all over
creation to different fly-ins. So...what ARE the rules
about this.
Larry Nelson
Springfield, MO
Beechcraft Bonanza V-35B N2980A
Cessna 195 N9883A
Pietenpol Air Camper N444MH
1963 GMC 4106-1618
SV/ Spirit of America
ARS WB0JOT
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Subject: | Re: Disassembly and Re-Assembly |
<20051113030515.89141.qmail@web53706.mail.yahoo.com>
--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Dave and Connie <dmatt@frontiernet.net>
If he is the builder and has the repairman's certificate for that tail
number then he is qualified to do the condition on that airframe. And thus
he can do just about anything he wants to it. Otherwise that one would
probably require an A&P sign off as a major repair as it is re-rigging of
the plane.
Dave
N36078 '41 BC-12-65
At 10:05 PM 11/12/2005, you wrote:
>--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Larry Nelson <lnelson208@yahoo.com>
>
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>Let's say a guy pulls the wings off of a Pietenpol and
>hauls it across the country to a fly-in and then
>re-assembles it. With a three piece wing, it wouldn't
>be more than an hour to put the wings back on. What I
>am talking about is the need for an A&P to sign off
>the work. I have a "friend" who has hauled his across
>the country, and while it has since gone thru an
>annual, no mention has been made of the
>dis-mantlement, and the subsequent re-mantlement. Has
>my "friend" got himself in trouble?
>
>I think of this dilemma as I visited the website of
>the unfortunate victim of the fatal crash of his
>gyroplane, as he had hauled that thing all over
>creation to different fly-ins. So...what ARE the rules
>about this.
>
>Larry Nelson
>Springfield, MO
>Beechcraft Bonanza V-35B N2980A
>Cessna 195 N9883A
>Pietenpol Air Camper N444MH
>1963 GMC 4106-1618
>SV/ Spirit of America
>ARS WB0JOT
>
>
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