Original Posted By: Michael D Cuy
Pietenpol-List: thanks to the group and crepe paper drops---att: Capt.
Re: Pietenpol-List: spoke holes
Original Posted By: Michael D Cuy
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: spoke holesMike,Do you recall what size or gauge you used on your spokes?Dan H.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:31:37 -0400
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: spoke holesMike,Do you recall what size or gauge you used on your spokes?Dan H.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:31:37 -0400
Re: Pietenpol-List: spoke holes
Original Posted By: Michael D Cuy
There's a copy of a Buchanan's invoice at: http://www.mykitplane.com/Planes/People ... ls1.docJim MarklePryor, OK214.505.6101 ----- Original Message -----
There's a copy of a Buchanan's invoice at: http://www.mykitplane.com/Planes/People ... ls1.docJim MarklePryor, OK214.505.6101 ----- Original Message -----
Re: Pietenpol-List: thanks to the group and crepe paper drops---att: Capt.
Original Posted By: "Douwe Blumberg"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: thanks to the group and crepe paper drops---att: Capt.Ga...In a message dated 8/10/2006 7:54:59 AM Central Standard Time, Michael.D.Cuy(at)grc.nasa.gov writes:Ala The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rob Busch's state of New York, you climb up, do a traffic check all aroundand below crumple up about a foot or so of the end of the roll, do some slow flight and chuck the roll over the shoulderof your choice. You throttle up a bit, fly forward in a descent and then make (your choice) a button hook turn around,and hunt for the lazy fluttering streamer of color in the sky. The trick is to catch the crepe paper midway down its lengthabout 1/2 way our on one of you wings. (don't want to dice it up in the prop if you can help it) If you catch the paper itwill stretch nicely about 50 feet behind your wing in two nice flowing streams. If you do wing waves the crepe paperflows up and down in beautiful s-live waves. Generally the paper only lasts about 10 minutes at moderate cruise and thenbreaks away. If you hit the paper too hard initially it will break too. Requires a pretty decent touch but once you getthe hang of it you can littler to your hearts content.Mike C.Oh man, the tree huggers are gonna love this postHey Mikee !!Evidently, like building a Pietenpol, there is more ways than one to do a Paper Cut !! I use the cheap, thin, toilet paper that costs about 4 or 5 bucks for about a dozen rolls, or so. That's probably why I've never been able to get it to catch a wing, without breaking it. However, sometimes I return to the fieldwith little pieces of T.P. hanging on various places on the airframe !! Thechallenging part is finding that thin little wisp of paper, after doing the turn around. I missed it by a long shot, the first 4 or 5 times I tried. The way I do it now, is to climb high enough to make two passes at it, about 3000' agl, and use pattern altitude as my hard deck. Two times I have had double cuts !! I hold the T. P. roll in my left hand (keeping right hand on the stick), and be sure that the rolling twitch of the wrist will Unroll the paper. Onetime I had it wrong, and the roll of T. P. failed to unroll, and who knows...it may have bounced off of the hood of one of those tree huggers !! Not to fear though...this stuff is Bio-Degradable. I now extend my arm over the side ofthe longeron for the un-rolling release, because one time while tossing it over the side, I bumped the windshield, and it bounced off the flying wires on the tail, and I could feel the BUMP through the stick. So, I line up on a road or something and make a mental note of compass heading and an object on tera firma, pull power to about 1600 rpm, get 'er slowed down to MCA (Minimum Controllable Airspeed), after release I pull power even farther and make a descending Right turn, changing heading about 20=BA or so. Then steep roll Left, continuing the steep decent. At this point, the wing blanks out the visual on the target, so I rely on heading change, and the object on the surface. After the 180=BA change in direction, start searching the horizon for the thin little target out in the distance. It usually presents itself about 20=BA off the nose, and at half mile. Once it is sighted, it is easy enough to get a HIT !! It's really cool to watch it grow very gradually at first, then the last several hundred feet away, it grows bigger at a high rate, and BAM...Got it !! Do another turn around, and go for a second HIT !! It's even more fun to do this with a passenger on board, and with the intercom I now have, we sound like Maverick & Goose !!Chuck G.NX770CG________________________________________________________________________________
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: thanks to the group and crepe paper drops---att: Capt.Ga...In a message dated 8/10/2006 7:54:59 AM Central Standard Time, Michael.D.Cuy(at)grc.nasa.gov writes:Ala The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rob Busch's state of New York, you climb up, do a traffic check all aroundand below crumple up about a foot or so of the end of the roll, do some slow flight and chuck the roll over the shoulderof your choice. You throttle up a bit, fly forward in a descent and then make (your choice) a button hook turn around,and hunt for the lazy fluttering streamer of color in the sky. The trick is to catch the crepe paper midway down its lengthabout 1/2 way our on one of you wings. (don't want to dice it up in the prop if you can help it) If you catch the paper itwill stretch nicely about 50 feet behind your wing in two nice flowing streams. If you do wing waves the crepe paperflows up and down in beautiful s-live waves. Generally the paper only lasts about 10 minutes at moderate cruise and thenbreaks away. If you hit the paper too hard initially it will break too. Requires a pretty decent touch but once you getthe hang of it you can littler to your hearts content.Mike C.Oh man, the tree huggers are gonna love this postHey Mikee !!Evidently, like building a Pietenpol, there is more ways than one to do a Paper Cut !! I use the cheap, thin, toilet paper that costs about 4 or 5 bucks for about a dozen rolls, or so. That's probably why I've never been able to get it to catch a wing, without breaking it. However, sometimes I return to the fieldwith little pieces of T.P. hanging on various places on the airframe !! Thechallenging part is finding that thin little wisp of paper, after doing the turn around. I missed it by a long shot, the first 4 or 5 times I tried. The way I do it now, is to climb high enough to make two passes at it, about 3000' agl, and use pattern altitude as my hard deck. Two times I have had double cuts !! I hold the T. P. roll in my left hand (keeping right hand on the stick), and be sure that the rolling twitch of the wrist will Unroll the paper. Onetime I had it wrong, and the roll of T. P. failed to unroll, and who knows...it may have bounced off of the hood of one of those tree huggers !! Not to fear though...this stuff is Bio-Degradable. I now extend my arm over the side ofthe longeron for the un-rolling release, because one time while tossing it over the side, I bumped the windshield, and it bounced off the flying wires on the tail, and I could feel the BUMP through the stick. So, I line up on a road or something and make a mental note of compass heading and an object on tera firma, pull power to about 1600 rpm, get 'er slowed down to MCA (Minimum Controllable Airspeed), after release I pull power even farther and make a descending Right turn, changing heading about 20=BA or so. Then steep roll Left, continuing the steep decent. At this point, the wing blanks out the visual on the target, so I rely on heading change, and the object on the surface. After the 180=BA change in direction, start searching the horizon for the thin little target out in the distance. It usually presents itself about 20=BA off the nose, and at half mile. Once it is sighted, it is easy enough to get a HIT !! It's really cool to watch it grow very gradually at first, then the last several hundred feet away, it grows bigger at a high rate, and BAM...Got it !! Do another turn around, and go for a second HIT !! It's even more fun to do this with a passenger on board, and with the intercom I now have, we sound like Maverick & Goose !!Chuck G.NX770CG________________________________________________________________________________