Original Posted By: "Carl Loar"
Jeff:My name is Skip Gadd, I have been building my Piet since about 1990. When it came time to build the fuse sides my partner Gary Barger liked the more curvy lower longeron of the f g plans so I built his and mine to those plans since we are using Hoop Pine for the sides and it comes 3'X6' I thought no problem.After all 4 sides were built I discovered several differences other than the extra inch of depth. The diagonal in the pilot pit goes the wrong way, this is important because it needs to be the way the 34improved plans show it because the aft L/G leg attaches to the lower longeron at the same place and the way the f g plans have it most of the load from a hard landing would be handled only by the lower longeron. The way the 34 plans have it the load is spread-out between the lower longeron the plywood on the side and the top longeron. Our sides now haveX shaped diagonals in the pilot pit. There are also 2 gussets missing that areon the 34 plans, the large gusset at the tail post and the long gusset from thepilot seat aft at the lower longeron. The f g plans are also a little over 2" shorter then the 34 plans in fuse length I think it the first bay behind thefire wall is where it is shorter. There are probably some other minor differences also that I can't remember now. Hope this helps. Skip, 11 years Piet building experience.----- ----- csfog(at)earthlink.net ________________________________________________________________________________