Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: "Bill Church"
Steve,I have been around piets since the late 1960's. There are some others that havebeen around longer but probably not too many. After thinking about the structuralfailure statement I made previously. I need to change that. I remember thata very long time ago (60's maybe) that someone did fold a wing in flight.It was a result of negative G's and the lack of jury struts. As a result I don'tthink that there is a Piet flying today without them. My question to the group now is. Do the supplemental plans now show jury strutsinstalled?Cheers,--------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: Randy Bush's Piet

Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Nice write-up...Congratulations, Randy!!Gary BootheNX308MB-----Original Message-----

Original Posted By: Steven Dortch
Don't fret it Steve, that repair will go quick! I promise!When you're building, or the plane is brand new, every bit of damage seemsmonumental, like you scratched your new Ferrari. After a while, you startto realize these just make up the life history of your plane and that it isunlikely there will be no dents and dings to fix up through the years.I totally freaked over some little runs in the paint and pinked edges Ifailed to iron down like I should have. Now, I don't even see them.While testing my new voltage regulator last week, I turned on the switch andwas greeted by wafting smoke in the cockpit! I immediately turned them offfiguring "WHAT THE!!!" Turned out that through a design mistake, I hadturned two small holes in the fuselage covering. I have a voltmeter next tomy leg in the bulkhead. The back with the wires protrudes into the forwardcockpit and is uncovered. MISTAKE!The passenger seatbelt fell in just a way to get itself jammed between thetwo contacts, shorting out the ground wire and when I turned on the power,it fried the insulation. Since the wire ran between the fuselage wood andthe covering, it burned two holes in the covering, smack dab on the side ofthe fuselage!. I was actually pretty calm about it and yesterday it took memaybe three hours to replace the wire, mount the new regulator, dope on somepatches, check everything out and button her up.She's got a couple of new "war wounds", but I'm fine with that.Douwe________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 05:51:27 -0500Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Randy Bush's Piet