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1. 09:46 AM - Re: Flight characteristics (taildrags)
2. 10:07 AM - Re: AN42B eye bolt for hinges (taildrags)
3. 10:09 AM - Re: Pietenpol-List Digest: 10 Msgs - 04/02/20 (taildrags)
4. 11:06 AM - Re: Re: Flight characteristics (Steven Dortch)
5. 01:11 PM - Re: Flight characteristics (taildrags)
6. 03:27 PM - Re: Re: Flight characteristics (Steven Dortch)
7. 04:43 PM - Re: Flight characteristics (taildrags)
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics |
- Steven, you got the full dose injection of 65cc of Continental power in your
rear end when you went up with me in 41CC that day. I know you weren't immune
and would succumb to it. We could have done better if I'd have taken you up
in the airplane with the A75 on it, especially on those warm south Texas afternoons,
but 65 was apparently enough.
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
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| Subject: | Re: AN42B eye bolt for hinges |
Earl; yes, I am still selling the cast aluminum Vi Kapler-style hinges. However,
I no longer have the free time to finish them, so all I am offering right now
are the rough castings for the builder to finish. It only requires simple
hand operations to smooth the edges, countersink and drill the mounting holes,
and drill the pivot holes, but it does take time to turn out a set of 18 pieces
and right now my time is in pretty short supply. Every hour I can put in my
timesheet at work as the company president gains me the equivalent gain of a
half-dozen sets of Piet tail hinges, which might take me 6-8 hours to crank out.
I have clevis pins with thin washers and cotter pins on the hinges on my airplane,
and that's what I recommend. I remember running a weight comparison doing
the nine hinge points using something heavier and you would be surprised how
much difference it makes back there on the tail. My old hangar mate Craig Wall
is a weight freak and he helped me swap out the clevis pins in my hinges with
titanium ones, the shortest possible, along with the thin washers. We cottered
them all up and clipped the excess tails of the cotters to get everything
as light as possible back there. I have to admit that working cotter pins in
the narrow gap between the tail surfaces can be frustrating and maddening if you
try to do it solo... much easier with a person on each side of the control
surface and you soon work out "who holds what, who inserts what, who bends what,
who clips what" to make it a process. It's a lot of fidgety little parts to
work in a tight space.
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
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| Subject: | Re: Pietenpol-List Digest: 10 Msgs - 04/02/20 |
DHawk: you'll need to machine two parts... one part has a single 'ear' that fits
into the mating part, which has two 'ears'. This puts the hinge pin in double
shear.
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics |
I would have resisted better if I had put on ear protection. You had me at
a disadvantage. I was overwhelmed.
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020, 11:49 AM taildrags <taildrags@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> - Steven, you got the full dose injection of 65cc of Continental power in
> your rear end when you went up with me in 41CC that day. I know you
> weren't immune and would succumb to it. We could have done better if I'd
> have taken you up in the airplane with the A75 on it, especially on those
> warm south Texas afternoons, but 65 was apparently enough.
>
> --------
> Oscar Zuniga
> Medford, OR
> Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
> A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=495606#495606
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics |
Steven- very insensitive of me to have not offered you some earmuffs before the
flight; sorry. Oh but hey, I thought Army grunts didn't need hearing protection
anyway-? And it was questionable as to whether I was even going to let you
get into my airplane because at the time, I had my doubts about someone who
would actually paint an entire Chevy Suburban with nothing but rattle cans of
red paint from Lowe's...
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
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http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=495612#495612
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics |
First! You did offer ear muffs, but I didn't want you to have time to
change your mind.
I am slightly offended! The worst way to paint is on a grassy surface, on a
hot day in the wind. So we painted it in the ditch on a 100 degree, Windy's
day. But I did not use rattle cans! It was valspar tractor paint.
International Harvester Red to be exact.
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020, 3:15 PM taildrags <taildrags@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Steven- very insensitive of me to have not offered you some earmuffs
> before the flight; sorry. Oh but hey, I thought Army grunts didn't need
> hearing protection anyway-? And it was questionable as to whether I was
> even going to let you get into my airplane because at the time, I had my
> doubts about someone who would actually paint an entire Chevy Suburban with
> nothing but rattle cans of red paint from Lowe's...
>
> --------
> Oscar Zuniga
> Medford, OR
> Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
> A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=495612#495612
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: Flight characteristics |
Just to keep this post on topic, I will add that I can't seem to consistently 3-point
my Piet either, and my wheel landing technique needs work but it's probably
better than some of my attempts to 3-point. Definitely better to wheel land
it if there's any significant amount of x-wind or you're operating out of
a narrow strip. I've gotten lazy operating out of the Medford airport, which
is 8800 x 150 feet and if I drift off to one side or the other a little, it doesn't
matter much. I can also angle my landing so as to touch down on one side
of the runway and use the width of the runway to get the nose pointed a little
closer to the wind. I've got some 8.00 tires that I'm going to put on instead
of the 6's to put the nose just a little higher in the 3-point attitude to
see what that does to my landings. At rest, the top longerons of my airplane
are currently at 12.2 degrees from the horizontal (as measured with the digital
level app on my phone).
My Piet sure isn't much of a floater, but that makes it easier for me to consistently
make the first turnoff on our long runway, or to get into short strips
when coming in over an obstacle.
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=495614#495614
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