Original Posted By: Richard Schreiber
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Wicker seatsHello, Group! I'd like to consider wicker seats in my Piet, but cannot find anyone who makes them. Does anyone know of anyone that does this sort of work? Thanks for your help. Don Cooley________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:01:39 -0600
Pietenpol-List: Wicker seats
Re: Pietenpol-List: Rib Diagonal
Original Posted By: "Richard Schreiber"
Rick,Yes, the brace is in two pieces, and after setting both (top and bottom) ,all gusseted including the cross, it's as if the one goes through the other.Least thats how I did mine.walt----- Original Message -----
Rick,Yes, the brace is in two pieces, and after setting both (top and bottom) ,all gusseted including the cross, it's as if the one goes through the other.Least thats how I did mine.walt----- Original Message -----
Re: Pietenpol-List: Wicker seats
Original Posted By: "D.Dale Johnson"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Wicker seats
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Wicker seats
RE: Pietenpol-List: Wicker seats
Original Posted By: Ken Rickards
Don,Don't forget you have to stand on the seat to get into the plane.Skip>I'd like to consider wicker seats in my Piet, but cannot find anyone >who makes them. Does anyone know of anyone that does this sort of work? >Thanks for your help. Don Cooley________________________________________________________________________________
Don,Don't forget you have to stand on the seat to get into the plane.Skip>I'd like to consider wicker seats in my Piet, but cannot find anyone >who makes them. Does anyone know of anyone that does this sort of work? >Thanks for your help. Don Cooley________________________________________________________________________________
Pietenpol-List: Azusa drum brakes
Original Posted By: "jim vydra"
Howdy again, low 'n' slow flyers-Thanks for the feedback from folks who are flying the 4" Azusa brakes, especially Walt, because mine aren't flying yet and I can use the input. My main source of input was from Dan Horton, the guy who built and flies the beautiful scale "Canuck" with Geo Tracker engine. Also talked with Tracy O'Brien, who offers wheel and brake packages for homebuilders and who 'tweaks' the Azusa brakes for better performance and resells them in packages ( http://www.tracyobrien.com ).But I don't think I ever implied that big strong brakes are a necessity on the Piet! And in my own case, Marvin Barnard's prototype Flying Squirrel has never flown with brakes and performs just fine both on and off hard surface. My desire for brakes was exactly the same as Walt's and the other folks'... to hold 'er during runup and in line for takeoff. I learned to fly in a J-3 with the old expander tubes, and about the best you could do with those brakes on runup was to do a "rolling runup", because you sure couldn't hold back those 65 hungry horses with the expander tubes! And if I so much as even *thought* about touching those brakes once I was on the runway (landing or taking off), my instructor would be all over me like a bad rash! As Gary said, the brakes can be useful for tight turns during taxi, and things like that. But my statement still stands... the Azusa 4" drums are thin metal and if for whatever reason you apply them firmly, the drums can deform and you'll end up hearing them dragging at one or two points on the drum circumference.Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________
Howdy again, low 'n' slow flyers-Thanks for the feedback from folks who are flying the 4" Azusa brakes, especially Walt, because mine aren't flying yet and I can use the input. My main source of input was from Dan Horton, the guy who built and flies the beautiful scale "Canuck" with Geo Tracker engine. Also talked with Tracy O'Brien, who offers wheel and brake packages for homebuilders and who 'tweaks' the Azusa brakes for better performance and resells them in packages ( http://www.tracyobrien.com ).But I don't think I ever implied that big strong brakes are a necessity on the Piet! And in my own case, Marvin Barnard's prototype Flying Squirrel has never flown with brakes and performs just fine both on and off hard surface. My desire for brakes was exactly the same as Walt's and the other folks'... to hold 'er during runup and in line for takeoff. I learned to fly in a J-3 with the old expander tubes, and about the best you could do with those brakes on runup was to do a "rolling runup", because you sure couldn't hold back those 65 hungry horses with the expander tubes! And if I so much as even *thought* about touching those brakes once I was on the runway (landing or taking off), my instructor would be all over me like a bad rash! As Gary said, the brakes can be useful for tight turns during taxi, and things like that. But my statement still stands... the Azusa 4" drums are thin metal and if for whatever reason you apply them firmly, the drums can deform and you'll end up hearing them dragging at one or two points on the drum circumference.Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________