---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 02/20/06: 4 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 01:00 AM - Piet Caps in Japan (M&M Stanley) 2. 06:05 AM - FlyCorvair website update (Oscar Zuniga) 3. 01:12 PM - Re: Washout & Rigging (Michael D Cuy) 4. 08:52 PM - I just want to fit in... (Michael Nadeau) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 01:00:21 AM PST US From: "M&M Stanley" Subject: Pietenpol-List: Piet Caps in Japan Hi Pieters, Just a note to say that if you are humming and haring about whether or not to buy a Piet cap from Steve Eldredge or not, I say go ahead and 'just do it' ! Mine arrived here in Japan today. Great caps for a great plane ! Attached is a shot of the caps on my R/C Piet with Japanese shoji doors in the background. Yep, just do it! $20 bucks is all you need ! Mark S Japan Rainy days, hinging the fin/rudder ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:05:25 AM PST US From: "Oscar Zuniga" Subject: Pietenpol-List: FlyCorvair website update --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Oscar Zuniga" William Wynne has posted an update on his website, at http://www.flycorvair.com/hangar.html . Included are photos of one of the 5th bearing prototype crankshafts and information on registering a second-hand conversion manual. Oscar Zuniga San Antonio, TX mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com website at http://www.flysquirrel.net ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 01:12:55 PM PST US From: Michael D Cuy Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Washout & Rigging --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Michael D Cuy I have about 2.5 degrees of dihedral, 3/8" washout at a point 3 ribs in from the wingtip, and ailerons in neutral are rigged 1/4" down on both sides. Reason for 3/8" washout is that is what 150 years of aviation experience (my two 75 year old IA buddies who work on nothing but old airplanes) told me that most Cubs, Champs, and such have in them, and the 1/4" droop because that is the way they used to rig old airplanes (including the DC-3's) because air pressures in flight on will make the ailerons sit pretty then, exactly neutral. If they are rigged neutral I'm told they'll ride up a bit causing drag. Mike C. ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 08:52:08 PM PST US From: Michael Nadeau Subject: Pietenpol-List: I just want to fit in... --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Michael Nadeau Hi Guys, Don't mind me. I'm just a lurker who's going to get started on my piet this year. I have the plans. I have the motor (corvair). I have the carb I got on ebay. I even went up to Van Arsdale-Harris in San Francisco to buy some spruce enough for the tail and ribs. BTW. Thats a heck of a place for raw lumber. One warehouse for spruce and two for fur! Nice 20' 3"x12"s if you really want the big spars. I picked through the small stuff and filled up my civic. But, before I get started there's one thing I'd like to know. How does one actually get into a piet? Specifically, the front cockpit. I mean, I've seen pictures of people sitting in the front and I've heard of people saying they've sat in one, but I've haven't actually seen anyone get in one. I assume the wing comes off. Or it folds up or something. Maybe they wear black leather and slide in in a Matrix sort of way. I don't know, which is why I bring it up. Anyhow, for something that ranks just under taking out the garbage on my wife's priority list it'll, I hope to be prop flipping in about a decade or so. On technical terms I want to trim the bird for a max pilot weight of 250. (with clothes) Too much? Thanks, Mike Nadeau EAA # 0448121