Original Posted By: "Jim Sury"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Alum. wingThere was a picture in one of the news letter a couple of years ago thatshowed a metal wing being built for a Piet. There has been no follow upsince. I ve also wondered about bildig an alum. tube fus. Built the waysome of those WW 1 replicas are with al. gussets and pop type rivits.Some of them are full size, and there was a Newport 28 (?) at Osh. wit a150 hp radial. So it should be plenty strong. Another way would be touse al. angle with bolts (BD-4 style) or Avex rivits. .....or al. honeycomb with some sort of exotic Jim Beedy bonding agent (glue) like thatlatest BD airplane. Leon S. in Ks. always thinking. ________________________________________________________________________________