Original Posted By: "Jack Phillips"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progressGreg-you are doing some fine looking work and I like your priorities with your basement drywalled butnot completely finished-yet you're working on the Piet. You got it right:)!If you have any other progress photos I for one would be happy if you shared them with us. Perhaps you'vealready got a Chris Tracy Westcoast Piet web site photo bunch entered.Mike C.________________________________________________________________________________
Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Re: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Original Posted By: Greg Bacon
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Re: Pietenpol-List: Kind of OT camera question
Original Posted By: helspersew(at)aol.com
Appears to be. He apparently replied to your thread on the center section to includesome photos. I don't see it either.--------Mark ChouinardWings, Center Section and Empannage and Fuse framed up - Working on Landing GearRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Kind of OT camera question
Appears to be. He apparently replied to your thread on the center section to includesome photos. I don't see it either.--------Mark ChouinardWings, Center Section and Empannage and Fuse framed up - Working on Landing GearRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Kind of OT camera question
Original Posted By: Gary Boothe
The strut and nose shots were taken by a GoPro in this vid from two summers ago http://youtu.be/MiLcMV7N8r0Dan HelsperPuryear, TN-----Original Message-----
The strut and nose shots were taken by a GoPro in this vid from two summers ago http://youtu.be/MiLcMV7N8r0Dan HelsperPuryear, TN-----Original Message-----
Re: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Original Posted By: Michael Perez
Michael, rib stitching is not really that bad. Just use one of your kids (or wife) to position him/her self on the other side of the wing to return the needle to you so that you don't have to either walk around to the other side or turn the wing over to complete the stitch. My wife helped me when I recovered the Piper Tripacer. I used Ceconite 102 and the whole dope routine on it. The Stewart system had not made the news at that time (possibly didn't exist). Chuck----- Original Message -----
Michael, rib stitching is not really that bad. Just use one of your kids (or wife) to position him/her self on the other side of the wing to return the needle to you so that you don't have to either walk around to the other side or turn the wing over to complete the stitch. My wife helped me when I recovered the Piper Tripacer. I used Ceconite 102 and the whole dope routine on it. The Stewart system had not made the news at that time (possibly didn't exist). Chuck----- Original Message -----
Re: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Original Posted By: Frank Metcalfe
Re: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Original Posted By: Michael Perez
Re: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Original Posted By: Michael Perez
Mike,The plastic reinforcing ring is there. It is under the plate. And rib stitching was a source of anxiety for me before doing it. But it wasn't that bad. In fact, it brought the whole family into the project.Greg On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Michael Perez wrote:> > I always love to see "in work" photos. Most times I see things that are different and make me consider different approaches to building.> > I do have a question Greg: the inspection cover shot...it appears to me that there is no plastic re-enforcement ring around where the cover sits. It looks like there was just a fabric "doubler" installed and no plastic ring. > > Everything looks real nice. I will be starting the covering of my wings...NOT looking forward to rib stitching!> > Michael Perez> Pietenpol HINT Videos> Karetaker Aero> www.karetakeraero.com> > > > ============================================================================================================================================> ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:11:56 -0800 (PST)
Mike,The plastic reinforcing ring is there. It is under the plate. And rib stitching was a source of anxiety for me before doing it. But it wasn't that bad. In fact, it brought the whole family into the project.Greg On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Michael Perez wrote:> > I always love to see "in work" photos. Most times I see things that are different and make me consider different approaches to building.> > I do have a question Greg: the inspection cover shot...it appears to me that there is no plastic re-enforcement ring around where the cover sits. It looks like there was just a fabric "doubler" installed and no plastic ring. > > Everything looks real nice. I will be starting the covering of my wings...NOT looking forward to rib stitching!> > Michael Perez> Pietenpol HINT Videos> Karetaker Aero> www.karetakeraero.com> > > > ============================================================================================================================================> ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:11:56 -0800 (PST)
Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Original Posted By: johnwoods(at)westnet.com.au
Greg: when I was in the rebuild of my airplane=2C I started out with a loooonnnggg list of 'to-do' items and each time I'd go out to the hangar and work on it=2C another item or two got scratched off but I'd find myself adding a new item or two that I wanted to get done. Pretty soon I would condense and reorganize the old scratched-out list onto a clean paper=2C add new items that came up=2C and keep going that way. At some point=2C I decided to go through the list and put a bullet next to items that I considered to be essential to safety of flight. Amazing... there were only about a half-dozen. Of those=2C only two were really essential to me firing up the engine and ground-testing systems=2C so in another two weekends I got to hear the engine run! I was able to check out my fuel system=2C ignition systems=2C instrument readings=2C and other items- and if I would have had access to fish scales=2C I could have even checked static thrust. Things progressed with much more enthusiasm from then on=2C and I was able to take my time with quite a few items on the list *after* return to flight and the joys that it brings.The moral of the story is=2C don't push the safety envelope just so you can get flying=2C but recognize that you may be closer to testing than you think.Oscar ZunigaMedford=2C Oregon hangar T6Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"A75 power ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:42:15 +0800 (WST)
Greg: when I was in the rebuild of my airplane=2C I started out with a loooonnnggg list of 'to-do' items and each time I'd go out to the hangar and work on it=2C another item or two got scratched off but I'd find myself adding a new item or two that I wanted to get done. Pretty soon I would condense and reorganize the old scratched-out list onto a clean paper=2C add new items that came up=2C and keep going that way. At some point=2C I decided to go through the list and put a bullet next to items that I considered to be essential to safety of flight. Amazing... there were only about a half-dozen. Of those=2C only two were really essential to me firing up the engine and ground-testing systems=2C so in another two weekends I got to hear the engine run! I was able to check out my fuel system=2C ignition systems=2C instrument readings=2C and other items- and if I would have had access to fish scales=2C I could have even checked static thrust. Things progressed with much more enthusiasm from then on=2C and I was able to take my time with quite a few items on the list *after* return to flight and the joys that it brings.The moral of the story is=2C don't push the safety envelope just so you can get flying=2C but recognize that you may be closer to testing than you think.Oscar ZunigaMedford=2C Oregon hangar T6Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"A75 power ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:42:15 +0800 (WST)
Re: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Original Posted By: Greg Bacon
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Greg Bacon's progress