Original Posted By: Jeff Boatright
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Barry Davis-- good update ! Great to hear that four of your Big Piets might be at SNF Barry !Can I ask how many of the Big Piets have made their 1st flights ? I hope the weather moderates for you guys soyou can get some of your hours flown off in late Feb/ and March. Go for it.Mike C.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:03:52 -0500
Pietenpol-List: Barry Davis-- good update !
RE: Pietenpol-List: Barry Davis-- good update !
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Thanks MikeSo far 4 of the 6 (Harold, Bruce, Frank and myself) are flying with varioushours but none over 27 hours. We had 4 signed off the same day and testingstarted soon after. We decided to do some modifications and this has takensome time. Since Tom (5th Big Piet) did not get his sign-off with ours,(using FAA instead of a DE) he is making the mods as we change our planesand should be ready for sign-off very soon. He probably will not have enoughhours to venture out very far, so Sun n Fun is out for him. If you know Tom,he is already grumbling about having to sleep in a tent.The Corvairs turned out to be the least of our worries as they run great andhave plenty of power to spare. A note on our props, we planed our own wood and glued up blanks to carve ourpropellers, but with the push to try to make Oshkosh last year, we opted tolet Alaina at Valley Engineering make some for us. She glued, carved andfinished 6 props in just a couple of weeks. Still the "90% done-90% to go"rule won out and we just could not make it. Still we did 6 planes in 6-1/2years and missing our deadline by one month wasn't too bad after all. Atleast we got 4 of them completed and flying in '09, the Piet anniversary.The weather looks bad the rest of this week and next week our EAA Chapterwill be on a cruise to the Bahamas. We won't get any flying done, but atleast we might be warm...Thanks againBarry Davis _____
Thanks MikeSo far 4 of the 6 (Harold, Bruce, Frank and myself) are flying with varioushours but none over 27 hours. We had 4 signed off the same day and testingstarted soon after. We decided to do some modifications and this has takensome time. Since Tom (5th Big Piet) did not get his sign-off with ours,(using FAA instead of a DE) he is making the mods as we change our planesand should be ready for sign-off very soon. He probably will not have enoughhours to venture out very far, so Sun n Fun is out for him. If you know Tom,he is already grumbling about having to sleep in a tent.The Corvairs turned out to be the least of our worries as they run great andhave plenty of power to spare. A note on our props, we planed our own wood and glued up blanks to carve ourpropellers, but with the push to try to make Oshkosh last year, we opted tolet Alaina at Valley Engineering make some for us. She glued, carved andfinished 6 props in just a couple of weeks. Still the "90% done-90% to go"rule won out and we just could not make it. Still we did 6 planes in 6-1/2years and missing our deadline by one month wasn't too bad after all. Atleast we got 4 of them completed and flying in '09, the Piet anniversary.The weather looks bad the rest of this week and next week our EAA Chapterwill be on a cruise to the Bahamas. We won't get any flying done, but atleast we might be warm...Thanks againBarry Davis _____
RE: Pietenpol-List: Barry Davis-- good update !
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So have you chosen who gets which airplane now?Jack PhillipsNX899JPRaleigh, NC _____
So have you chosen who gets which airplane now?Jack PhillipsNX899JPRaleigh, NC _____
Pietenpol-List: Barry Davis-- good update !
Original Posted By: shad bell