Original Posted By: KM Heide CPO/FAAOP
watch your CG, the Piet even with a Model-A and water filled Radiator up front comes out with and aft CG closes to the limit.This is not always true. NX929DH is nose-heavy, have to input nose-up bungee trim to fly level. I also adjusted down the LE of the horizontal stab to help raise the nose.*Pilot weight: 150 Lbs.*Model A, Gleaner Combine "diamond" block (8 lbs heavier)*Brass radiator*Vertical cabanes*Jenny gearWalt Bowe (Calif.) told me that his is nose heavy also.Dan HelsperPuryear, TN________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:24:27 -0700 (PDT)
Pietenpol-List: Push-pull....CG locations
Re: Pietenpol-List: Push-pull....CG locations
Original Posted By: Doug Dever
Doug,Wings are to plans. Cabanes vertical.Dan HelsperPuryear, TN-----Original Message-----
Doug,Wings are to plans. Cabanes vertical.Dan HelsperPuryear, TN-----Original Message-----
Pietenpol-List: Re: Plan to get that blade out of the blank !
Original Posted By: "bender"
Visualizing the front view of the prop, I get it. Drawing the Leading and Trailingedges on the side of the blank, got that too ! What the airfoil at eachstation looks like if you were looking down the blade from the tip to the hub,well that was more difficult for me to see. Here is what I came up with andmy plan to remove just the right amount of material to end up with a propeller.I've mounted a digital caliper to the drill press so I can drill a series of1/16 inch holes along a line on the face of the prop blank at each station.The digital caliper should allow me to control the depth of the hole to with-inabout 1/8 of and inch from the actual airfoil surface. The wood remainingcan be removed with the angle grinder or orbital sander. Any thoughts or suggestions.I'm going to try the lancelot blade from King Arthur Tools mounted in a 4 1/2 inchangle grinder.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ttachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/prop ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Plan to get that blade out of the blank !
Visualizing the front view of the prop, I get it. Drawing the Leading and Trailingedges on the side of the blank, got that too ! What the airfoil at eachstation looks like if you were looking down the blade from the tip to the hub,well that was more difficult for me to see. Here is what I came up with andmy plan to remove just the right amount of material to end up with a propeller.I've mounted a digital caliper to the drill press so I can drill a series of1/16 inch holes along a line on the face of the prop blank at each station.The digital caliper should allow me to control the depth of the hole to with-inabout 1/8 of and inch from the actual airfoil surface. The wood remainingcan be removed with the angle grinder or orbital sander. Any thoughts or suggestions.I'm going to try the lancelot blade from King Arthur Tools mounted in a 4 1/2 inchangle grinder.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ttachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/prop ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Plan to get that blade out of the blank !
Pietenpol-List: Re: Kennedy Space Center Flyovers
Original Posted By: "GliderMike"
i had fun with the chainsaw method...jeffRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Kennedy Space Center Flyovers
i had fun with the chainsaw method...jeffRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Kennedy Space Center Flyovers
Original Posted By: Lawrence Williams
Dan, There is an airport in Western Oklahoma - Clinton Sherman - that has 13,500ft of runway. It used to be an Air Force Base, and was de-commissioned in the'60's. There is a control tower there (or at least used to be) that was openfrom 7 or 8 am til 5 or 6 pm weekdays. I made 3 take offs and landings to afull stop, with a climb to 1,000 ft agl in between each take off in the 1957Cessna 182 I used to own, several years ago.--------HOMEBUILDERWill WORK for SpruceLong flights, smooth air, and soft landings,GliderMike, aka Mike GlasgowRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:11:01 -0700 (PDT)
Dan, There is an airport in Western Oklahoma - Clinton Sherman - that has 13,500ft of runway. It used to be an Air Force Base, and was de-commissioned in the'60's. There is a control tower there (or at least used to be) that was openfrom 7 or 8 am til 5 or 6 pm weekdays. I made 3 take offs and landings to afull stop, with a climb to 1,000 ft agl in between each take off in the 1957Cessna 182 I used to own, several years ago.--------HOMEBUILDERWill WORK for SpruceLong flights, smooth air, and soft landings,GliderMike, aka Mike GlasgowRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:11:01 -0700 (PDT)