Original Posted By: "ldmill"
Great progress Jeff! You are clearly dedicating lots of time and effort to yourPiet, and the workmanship looks great! The distributor ignition sounds like itwill work out well. Do you have an alternator in mind? One of the little Kubota/Yanmar/JohnDeere units might work well. Lots of folks are using them withgood success on other engines.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Trip review-Flight to Gardner, Kansas for WW1 replicafly-in
Pietenpol-List: Trip review-Flight to Gardner, Kansas for WW1 replica
Original Posted By: Bill Princell
Flew the GN-1 on my first nice long cross country flight - from Marshalltown, Iowato Gardner, Kansas (280 miles) on Thursday/Friday for the WW1 replica fly-in.Made it back last night at 9pm. 11.1 hours total flying time. Flight down had some huge headwinds(20-25mph+), was down to a ground speed of 38-39mph at times. It took 6.1 hours - much of that was due to my flying partner'splane - he has a scratch built 6/10 scale WW1 Voison French Bomber that hebuilt. It cruises at 50 mph. Much S-turning for me. We stopped at Corydon, Iowato refuel - neat airport by some ponds with steel dinosaurs in the front yard- my 10 yr old loved it. We also stopped at Chillicothe, Missouri to rideout a storm (they were nice enough to stuff us in a big hanger), then headed westto Amelia Earhart airport in Kansas - cool place to fly into - and yes, itis the home of Amelia Earhart! We over-nighted in Lawrence, Ks due to darkness,then to Gardner the next morning (against 15mph winds). FYI, the Missouri riverflooding is impressive!Massive thunderstorms down there last several days - the dog chain tie downs workedgreat! We had 40+ mph winds gusting upwards to 60 on Friday night. Unfortunately- the Voison spike tie downs came loose in the soft soil and he had tobuild a new lower rudder and rebuild his aileron due to hitting another airplaneand a hanger I think. We found his plane in a drainage ditch several hundredyards away. He was in the air by 5:30 Saturday night on the way home.There were a bunch of really cool planes down there! A gorgeous Fokker DR-1 Triplane,many Nieuports/Sopwiths, a Siemens-Schukert, and others that I just hadno clue what they were. Met Robert Baslee again (Aerdrome Airplanes - cool placeto visit), Rick Bennet, Dick and Sharon Starks (they took a pic of my withmy GN-1 right when I got there Friday morning) FYI- when I was at Baslee'splace last year, ran into Mark Anderson who proceeded to give me a tour of hisprivate aircraft museum which included no less than 8 Pietenpols. He knows modelA engines extremely well. He actually has Bernie's original Corvair enginethere also. He also has an original converted Henderson that he had just takenout of the shipping crate - it's in great condition.My flight back (by myself) was 4 hours exactly (went southerly/eastern route aroundthee Class B airspace). Rough down in Kansas city area - perfectly smoothfrom about Lexington on north. I highly recommend visiting Lexington if you everget a chance. The owner is a total gear head that builds custom motorcyclesin his back shop and they are total eye candy! He's also a licensed parachuterigger and jump instructor - used to compete on the US team and jumps at theAir Force academy with the cadets occasionally. If I remember correctly, hisname is Tom Dolphin.I really appreciated having the extra fuel in this plane - have a 14 gallon headertank and a 4+ gallon center section tank. Made Gardner to Corydon, Iowa (190miles) no problem. Could have made it the entire 280 mile trip almost on onetank - but would have been on fumes with absolutely nothing left for "just incase". Burns 4.5 g/hr with the A-75 and had an average cruise of about 74mphon way back with slight tailwind of 2-4 mph.Also - having an aviation GPS - while it isn't really required in a Piet/GN - andlooks kind of funny in it - is invaluable - most especially when dealing withthe Class B airspace and staying out of it. I've got an old Garmin Pilot IIIthat works perfect.Oh yea - watched a Sonex in Gardner land short of the runway and ripped his titaniumgear off in a shallow rain filled swamp. Owner walked away okay. He wascoming in low and slow, got too low and hit the throttle - and the engine burped-and that was all she wrote. He'd been having carb adjustment issues just previouslythat morning.Later!Lorin--------Lorin MillerWaiex N81YXGN-1 N30PPRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... __________
Flew the GN-1 on my first nice long cross country flight - from Marshalltown, Iowato Gardner, Kansas (280 miles) on Thursday/Friday for the WW1 replica fly-in.Made it back last night at 9pm. 11.1 hours total flying time. Flight down had some huge headwinds(20-25mph+), was down to a ground speed of 38-39mph at times. It took 6.1 hours - much of that was due to my flying partner'splane - he has a scratch built 6/10 scale WW1 Voison French Bomber that hebuilt. It cruises at 50 mph. Much S-turning for me. We stopped at Corydon, Iowato refuel - neat airport by some ponds with steel dinosaurs in the front yard- my 10 yr old loved it. We also stopped at Chillicothe, Missouri to rideout a storm (they were nice enough to stuff us in a big hanger), then headed westto Amelia Earhart airport in Kansas - cool place to fly into - and yes, itis the home of Amelia Earhart! We over-nighted in Lawrence, Ks due to darkness,then to Gardner the next morning (against 15mph winds). FYI, the Missouri riverflooding is impressive!Massive thunderstorms down there last several days - the dog chain tie downs workedgreat! We had 40+ mph winds gusting upwards to 60 on Friday night. Unfortunately- the Voison spike tie downs came loose in the soft soil and he had tobuild a new lower rudder and rebuild his aileron due to hitting another airplaneand a hanger I think. We found his plane in a drainage ditch several hundredyards away. He was in the air by 5:30 Saturday night on the way home.There were a bunch of really cool planes down there! A gorgeous Fokker DR-1 Triplane,many Nieuports/Sopwiths, a Siemens-Schukert, and others that I just hadno clue what they were. Met Robert Baslee again (Aerdrome Airplanes - cool placeto visit), Rick Bennet, Dick and Sharon Starks (they took a pic of my withmy GN-1 right when I got there Friday morning) FYI- when I was at Baslee'splace last year, ran into Mark Anderson who proceeded to give me a tour of hisprivate aircraft museum which included no less than 8 Pietenpols. He knows modelA engines extremely well. He actually has Bernie's original Corvair enginethere also. He also has an original converted Henderson that he had just takenout of the shipping crate - it's in great condition.My flight back (by myself) was 4 hours exactly (went southerly/eastern route aroundthee Class B airspace). Rough down in Kansas city area - perfectly smoothfrom about Lexington on north. I highly recommend visiting Lexington if you everget a chance. The owner is a total gear head that builds custom motorcyclesin his back shop and they are total eye candy! He's also a licensed parachuterigger and jump instructor - used to compete on the US team and jumps at theAir Force academy with the cadets occasionally. If I remember correctly, hisname is Tom Dolphin.I really appreciated having the extra fuel in this plane - have a 14 gallon headertank and a 4+ gallon center section tank. Made Gardner to Corydon, Iowa (190miles) no problem. Could have made it the entire 280 mile trip almost on onetank - but would have been on fumes with absolutely nothing left for "just incase". Burns 4.5 g/hr with the A-75 and had an average cruise of about 74mphon way back with slight tailwind of 2-4 mph.Also - having an aviation GPS - while it isn't really required in a Piet/GN - andlooks kind of funny in it - is invaluable - most especially when dealing withthe Class B airspace and staying out of it. I've got an old Garmin Pilot IIIthat works perfect.Oh yea - watched a Sonex in Gardner land short of the runway and ripped his titaniumgear off in a shallow rain filled swamp. Owner walked away okay. He wascoming in low and slow, got too low and hit the throttle - and the engine burped-and that was all she wrote. He'd been having carb adjustment issues just previouslythat morning.Later!Lorin--------Lorin MillerWaiex N81YXGN-1 N30PPRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... __________
Re: Pietenpol-List: Ohio piet fly-in washed out
Original Posted By: steve emo
That friend's name would'nt be Corey would it? if so I know him. Raymond. do notarchiveRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:32:49 -0400Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Ohio piet fly-in washed out
That friend's name would'nt be Corey would it? if so I know him. Raymond. do notarchiveRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:32:49 -0400Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Ohio piet fly-in washed out