Original Posted By: "Phillips, Jack"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Airplane assemblersI couldn't imagine myself just "putting part "A" in slot "B". It would bore me to death. I need to exercise my brain, laying awake at night drawing imaginary parts in my mind's eye. That is the beauty and fun of the Piet. Bernard actually did us a huge favor when he left a lot of stuff out of the plans(even though I have been cussing him of late after I scrapped my second set of straight axle landing gear struts and fittings).Dan Helsper________________________________________________________________________________
Pietenpol-List: Airplane assemblers
RE: Pietenpol-List: Airplane assemblers
Original Posted By: HelsperSew(at)aol.com
Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Airplane assemblersI agree Dan,Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) my newbride loves to fly, as long as we're going somewhere. She doesn't careat all to just go "up", like I enjoy with the Pietenpol. If I say,"let's fly the RV-4 to..." she's out the door and climbing in thecockpit before I can even finish the sentence. I've taken her up in thePiet once and she couldn't believe how long it took to get to the end ofthe runway after takeoff. It couldn't have been much over a minute(6500' runway). She's used to getting wherever she wants to go at 170knots, but she finds the RV-4 too cramped for comfortable travel. Hencemy decision to build (excuse me, "assemble") an RV-10. Maybe I'llmodify it and make the world's first taildragger RV-10, just so it's notexactly like 1,000 other airplanes.Don't get me wrong, she loves the Pietenpol and thinks it's a coolplane, as long as she doesn't have to sit in it very long. At least shelikes to fly, which is more than I can say for wife #1 or wife #2. Andshe understands my need to fly a plane with no starter, no forwardvisibility and open cockpits.Jack Phillips-----Original Message-----[mailto:owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf OfHelsperSew(at)aol.comSent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:14 PMI couldn't imagine myself just "putting part "A" in slot "B". It wouldbore me to death. I need to exercise my brain, laying awake at nightdrawing imaginary parts in my mind's eye. That is the beauty and fun of thePiet. Bernard actually did us a huge favor when he left a lot of stuff out ofthe plans (even though I have been cussing him of late after I scrapped my secondset of straight axle landing gear struts and fittings).Dan Helsper_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Airplane assemblersI agree Dan,Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) my newbride loves to fly, as long as we're going somewhere. She doesn't careat all to just go "up", like I enjoy with the Pietenpol. If I say,"let's fly the RV-4 to..." she's out the door and climbing in thecockpit before I can even finish the sentence. I've taken her up in thePiet once and she couldn't believe how long it took to get to the end ofthe runway after takeoff. It couldn't have been much over a minute(6500' runway). She's used to getting wherever she wants to go at 170knots, but she finds the RV-4 too cramped for comfortable travel. Hencemy decision to build (excuse me, "assemble") an RV-10. Maybe I'llmodify it and make the world's first taildragger RV-10, just so it's notexactly like 1,000 other airplanes.Don't get me wrong, she loves the Pietenpol and thinks it's a coolplane, as long as she doesn't have to sit in it very long. At least shelikes to fly, which is more than I can say for wife #1 or wife #2. Andshe understands my need to fly a plane with no starter, no forwardvisibility and open cockpits.Jack Phillips-----Original Message-----[mailto:owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf OfHelsperSew(at)aol.comSent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:14 PMI couldn't imagine myself just "putting part "A" in slot "B". It wouldbore me to death. I need to exercise my brain, laying awake at nightdrawing imaginary parts in my mind's eye. That is the beauty and fun of thePiet. Bernard actually did us a huge favor when he left a lot of stuff out ofthe plans (even though I have been cussing him of late after I scrapped my secondset of straight axle landing gear struts and fittings).Dan Helsper_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Re: Pietenpol-List: Airplane assemblers
Original Posted By: "Rick Holland"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Airplane assemblersI totally agree also Dan. This newsgroup really makes a difference though.You really have to give credit to those 'pioneers' that built Piets back inthe old days before the Internet, Bingelis books, the EAA and possibly notcontact with any other Piet builders.Rick H.On 6/21/06, HelsperSew(at)aol.com wrote:>>> I couldn't imagine myself just "putting part "A" in slot "B". It would> bore> me to death. I need to exercise my brain, laying awake at night drawing> imaginary parts in my mind's eye. That is the beauty and fun of the> Piet.> Bernard actually did us a huge favor when he left a lot of stuff out of> the plans> (even though I have been cussing him of late after I scrapped my second> set> of straight axle landing gear struts and fittings).>> Dan Helsper>>-- Rick Holland"Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers, that smell bad"________________________________________________________________________________
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Airplane assemblersI totally agree also Dan. This newsgroup really makes a difference though.You really have to give credit to those 'pioneers' that built Piets back inthe old days before the Internet, Bingelis books, the EAA and possibly notcontact with any other Piet builders.Rick H.On 6/21/06, HelsperSew(at)aol.com wrote:>>> I couldn't imagine myself just "putting part "A" in slot "B". It would> bore> me to death. I need to exercise my brain, laying awake at night drawing> imaginary parts in my mind's eye. That is the beauty and fun of the> Piet.> Bernard actually did us a huge favor when he left a lot of stuff out of> the plans> (even though I have been cussing him of late after I scrapped my second> set> of straight axle landing gear struts and fittings).>> Dan Helsper>>-- Rick Holland"Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers, that smell bad"________________________________________________________________________________