Pietenpol-List: Piet building tips

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Original Posted By: Michael D Cuy
Howdy, low 'n' slow fliers;I just have to mention a great source of building tips to those who may be new on this list or to those who may have forgotten. That source is Mike Cuy's video. I just pulled it out again this past weekend (for the umpteenth time) so I could find the segment where Mike helps his wife into the passenger 'pit, so I could show my buddy Charlie how you get passengers into the front hole the easy way. True, Mike's plane has the spoked "motorcycle" tires to step on which gives a little additional lift, but the technique is basically the same.Anyway, there are so many little details of construction, tips, and just generally "yeah, I'll have to remember that" type of things in the video that make it a most worthwhile expenditure and addition to your homebuilding library. The first segment is a walkie-talk-around of the airplane as Mike shows you all the fine points of the bird, and the last segment is a detailed account of the construction. Very good documentation of his project and very educational and inspiring. And of course when it's raining outside and you can't work on your airplane, or haven't been in the shop for months and need some encouragement, you just fast forward to about 1800 on the counter and go make some smoke with Mike as he terrorizes the neighborhood with low passes at high speeds with smoke pouring out the back! I'm thinking of hosting a "Pietenpol Night" for one of our EAA 35 meetings, where I just give rides in the afternoon and let folks look all over the airplane, then we play Mike's video for the evening's program. Parts of it, at least.PS on the inflight meals, we down here in Texas have a great advantage, called "breakfast tacos". They are individually wrapped in aluminum foil, you can get whatever you want inside them, can be eaten with one hand, make a complete and nutritious balanced meal (because the FDA says so ;o), you can ball the foil up when you're done, you can eat however much you want and re-wrap the rest for later, and there's usually no mess to clean up afterward. Unless you get those juicy tacos filled with stuff that drips. But anyway, my point is that they are the perfect in-flight food for traveling. They don't get hurt if you squoosh them, aren't too bad even when cold (but can be kept warm in cold weather by just carrying them inside your jacket). Now if I could just figure out how to make hot coffee that was the consistency of jelly so it wouldn't spill, could be squeezed from a tube, and was not a diuretic-!Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:17:51 -0400

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Original Posted By: "Hodgson, Mark O"

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Original Posted By: "Hodgson, Mark O"
I am not putting trim in mine. I just got back from a 5 day weekend offlying my cousins 1946 BC-12D T-craft off his grass strip. It has elevatortrim but I never used in once. From 55mph on final to 105 in cruise thetrim never changed.I think that aircraft as light as these are can do without trim.DJ----- Original Message -----