Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: Jim Sury

Original Posted By: del magsam
>>>Are you gonna keep it a secret? What's the name of the lumber yard?>>>>>>I found a lumber yard here in Houston with plenty of spar and mast grade,>>vertical grain Douglas Fir and Sitka Spruce. Looked beautiful. They will>>plane it to my specs. Not completely sure of the total cost, but not too>>bad. Spruce is about $10 a linear foot or so. Also had up to 3mm Birch>>aircraft grade plywood. It seems to be equivalent to 1/8". Bought some, very>>pretty stuff. Will that do for gussets.>>>>Some places are cheaper but I get to see what I am buying - I like that.>>Also found a supplier of T-88. Called System Three and they told me right>>where to go, which happened to be right across the freeway from where I>>work. Did a test glue-up and waiting to break it in a week of so and look at>>failure point. It has been cold down here, got down to a whole 27 degrees>>last night. All-in-all a great day.>>>>Regards,>>>>Gary P. McNeel, Jr.>>MyKitPlane.com>>EAA 665957>>gmcneel(at)mykitplane.com>>http://www.mykitplane.com/Planes/buildL ... >>>"What's the hurry? Are you afraid I won't come back?">>>> Manfred von Richthofen, 'The Red Baron,' last recorded words, in reply to>>a request for an autograph as he was climbing into the cockpit of his plane.>>>>>>________________________________________________________________________________Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:21:12 -0800 (PST)

Original Posted By: "Gary McNeel, Jr."
>>My airplane photos.>> There was something wrong with the page setup I had on Angelfire.com>> Anyway, I changed the address to:>>http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/retired/pietpage5.html>> Let me see if the page comes up now. Going to mail it to myself here for atest. The address works when you type it in. But didn't work on the link. HopeI fixed it. Got about 3 photos loaded this morning of construction processof the Pietenpol airplane.>>Ray>>>FindLaw - Free Case Law, Jobs, Library, Community>http://www.FindLaw.com>Get your FREE @JUSTICE.COM email!>http://mail.Justice.com>>________________________________________________________________________________Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:14:56 -0500

Original Posted By: "Gary McNeel, Jr."

Original Posted By: Fisherman Caye
Doc,Another French word you forgot - canard. This one has a curious history.Alberto Santos-DuMont was a Brazilian who was living in France in the earlyyears of the last century. He designed a number of aircraft, but one of hisfirst successful designs looked every much like a biplane of the WWI era(except for its tail, which was also biplane). However, this plane movedbackwards! It was a pusher, with the wings aft, just in front of thepropeller, had a long fuselage and the "empennage" was on the very front ofthe aeroplane. When the citizens of Paris saw it flying over, they laughedat it and said it looked like a duck (ever seen a Mallard in flight, withits wings well aft and its long neck and head way out in front?). TheFrench word for duck is "canard". Ever since, any plane with its tail infront, such as a VariEze, is called a canard. Even control surfaces mountedin front of the wing are called canards. When I was a young engineer justout of school I worked for General Dynamics on the design of the F-16 and weplayed around with one of the YF-16 prototypes adding movable "canards"attached to the forward part of the engine inlet for added maneuverability.Jack________________________________________________________________________________Date: 6 Mar 2002 05:00:56 -0800