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1. 07:13 AM - Re: Re: Dick N's cool Piet (del magsam)
2. 09:23 AM - Re:Re: Re: Dick N's cool Piet (Ryan Michals)
3. 03:14 PM - Re: tail wheels (Rcaprd@aol.com)
4. 06:02 PM - Re: tail wheels (shad bell)
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| Subject: | Re: Dick N's cool Piet |
Patrick
Sorry I dropped the ball on the crankshaft work, This new business I have is
consuming all of my thoughts and time. I have a partially finished piet...and
would like a local partner in it. Maybe when life slows down here...we can get
together and have some fun with it.
Del
PatrickW <pwhoyt@yahoo.com> wrote:
He's really doing a nice job on that Piet...
It's nice to be in the same EAA chapter (25, at Lakeville, MN) as Dick, as well
as a couple other Pietenpol guys there.
When I finish my current project, I'd like to build a Piet next. Already have the
plans... :)
Patrick
601XL/Corvair
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=127423#127423
Del-New Richmond, Wi
"farmerdel@rocketmail.com"
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| Subject: | Re: Dick N's cool Piet |
Where are you located Dell?
------Original Message------
From: del magsam <farmerdel@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Re: Dick N's cool Piet
Patrick
Sorry I dropped the ball on the crankshaft work, This new business I have is
consuming all of my thoughts and time. I have a partially finished piet..and would
like a local partner in it. Maybe when life slows down here...we can get
together and have some fun with it.
Del
PatrickW <pwhoyt@yahoo.com> wrote:
He's really doing a nice job on that Piet...
It's nice to be in the same EAA chapter (25, at Lakeville, MN) as Dick, as well
as a couple other Pietenpol guys there.
When I finish my current project, I'd like to build a Piet next. Already have the
plans... :)
Patrick
601XL/Corvair
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=127423#127423
Del-New Richmond, Wi
"farmerdel@rocketmail.com"
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In a message dated 8/1/2007 9:55:27 AM Central Daylight Time,
douweblumberg@earthlink.net writes:
Hi guys,
Looks like I'm going to have to put a tailwheel on my skid assembly for
asphalt. Wanted your input on what's worked and what HASNT. I've heard, and it
makes sense that a tailwheel adds twisting loads to the stock design that it
wasn't intended for. yet at Brodhead, I didn't see many assemblies that seemed
modified and yet they were in one piece. If you did modify the assembly, what
did you do?
Also, will a 3" wheel work on grass or is it too small?
I'm thinking of building one up myself
Douwe
Douwe,
I have a 'Short Fuselage' with the shorter of the two types of skids. I
started out (during '02 & '03) with a tail skid, which works great as long as you
are using it exclusively on turf. Not much control with the skid on the hard
surface, and it sounds like you're dragging a pop machine across the concrete
!! I tried a nylon roller at the aft edge of the skid, but that only worked
for a couple of days. I finally added a 3 1/2" tailwheel, but I added it to
the aft edge of the skid, in order to keep the tail as low as possible, and to
reduce the twisting loads on the swingarm. Even with the loads incurred while
spinning the tail around and around with the smoke on, the swingarm has held
up just fine, because twisting load is reduced because of the position of the
wheel. However, I have to use differential braking to get it to do a tight
turn in the grass, because of the small 3 1/2" diameter tailwheel. Here is a
picture : _http://nx770cg.com/Unique.html_ (http://nx770cg.com/Unique.html)
Chuck G.
NX770CG
http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour
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I would say PUT A STEERABLE TAILWHEEL ON! We have a 3 inch NON-STEERABLE on
dad's and believe me it puts much more stress on the structure than it would if
it swiveled.(spelling?) We use tailskid technique when manuvering on the ground,
Down elevator and goose the throttle with the rudder and brake over and
locked. It is fun when you get the hang of it, but the novilty wears off the
first time you go to another airport and have to shut down, unstrap and climb
out to get the airplane off the damn runway, because you decided too late to
go to the next taxiway turn off. This has happened to me only twice in about
30 hrs of flying 92GB but it could get ugly if a student pilot came in close behind
you in a Cessnna 150 with 40 degrees of flaps and had to try a go around.
We will eventually put a steerable wheel on 92GB, but we have bigger fish to
fry untill we get this Corvair running.
Shad
p.s. Is anyone going to MERFI?, IF and I mean IF we get all the parts back for
the engine in time, we plan on flying up this year.
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