Original Posted By: Douwe Blumberg
Mine is the 1932 version. Given your requirements, I REALLY think you should trackdown some planes and try them on. Bill makes a SUPER good point. Light is going to be critical. I even suggesta one piece wing. I have taken a 205 lb pax, 6' 2", at brodhead with a a65. Not stellar performance! An 85hp engine is probably the way to go for a cont. the corvair is rated arounda hundred. Kevin Purtee took me for a ride, he's taller and bigger than I,with that engine and it flew really well. Food for thought. A,common belief is you'll save money with a car engine. Not really so when builtcorrectly. It's just a different way to go. Properly built however, I reallydon't think you're compromising on safety. As for gear, again, find one configured like you want, known to fly and handlewell, and do what he did. However, with wood gear legs, not real hard to changewhere the axle is relative to the firewall. Four pieces of wood. I made mine,a rebuild issue, out of a really nice southern yellow pine pallet. The legswere free...Start building fittings, ribs, wing, tail feathers and keep asking and lookingon the fuse until you think you're set would be my advice. ToolsRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Fuse choices
Pietenpol-List: Fuse choices
Pietenpol-List: Re: Fuse choices
Original Posted By: "Dave'sPiet"
The recent fuselages we have built at Sun N Fun (starting with Dick Navratils Rotecpowered one) simply moved the top of the back rearward 4 inches.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Fuse choices
The recent fuselages we have built at Sun N Fun (starting with Dick Navratils Rotecpowered one) simply moved the top of the back rearward 4 inches.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Fuse choices
Pietenpol-List: Re: Fuse choices
Original Posted By: "Dave'sPiet"
I have the long Fuse and we moved the top of the seat back 2" after flying it inthe stock configuration for many years. An improvement that is was much needed.I recommend that anyone building should make that change.Raising the Cabanes 2" seems to also be the norm.--------Scott LiefeldFlying N11MS since March 1972Steel TubeC-85-12Wire WheelsBrodhead in 1996Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Fuse choices
I have the long Fuse and we moved the top of the seat back 2" after flying it inthe stock configuration for many years. An improvement that is was much needed.I recommend that anyone building should make that change.Raising the Cabanes 2" seems to also be the norm.--------Scott LiefeldFlying N11MS since March 1972Steel TubeC-85-12Wire WheelsBrodhead in 1996Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Fuse choices
Original Posted By: "Barry Davis"
Thanks Douwe- I hope to sit in a few Piets before I start cutting wood. The door plans call for conservative routing of many of the vertical struts onboth sides, which compensates for the added weight of the 3 beams added to theright side of the fuselage. As soon as I start laying down the wood I'll startposting pictures.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... __________
Thanks Douwe- I hope to sit in a few Piets before I start cutting wood. The door plans call for conservative routing of many of the vertical struts onboth sides, which compensates for the added weight of the 3 beams added to theright side of the fuselage. As soon as I start laying down the wood I'll startposting pictures.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... __________