Pietenpol-List: unmanned Piets
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 1:17 pm
Original Posted By: "DJ Vegh"
Chris wrote:>Look at the bright side, if you hand prop the airplane and don't jump>inside fast enough and the thing takes off without you with the 6>pounds of gloves in the glovebox, then you have... 15.9% of chord.>Compare this to the Cub's 16.8%. Pretty close. Maybe a little nose>heavy but it should fly by itself ok as long as it does a wheel>landing!!Oh, man! I nearly fell out of my office chair laughing at the mental picture of Four-One Charlie-Charlie soloing itself with a load of gloves aboard! But it has happened this way before, or so I've read.PS: I wonder if the FAA would require the empty airplane to "self-certify" its medical condition? Yuk, yuk!Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.netMSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide ... __________
Chris wrote:>Look at the bright side, if you hand prop the airplane and don't jump>inside fast enough and the thing takes off without you with the 6>pounds of gloves in the glovebox, then you have... 15.9% of chord.>Compare this to the Cub's 16.8%. Pretty close. Maybe a little nose>heavy but it should fly by itself ok as long as it does a wheel>landing!!Oh, man! I nearly fell out of my office chair laughing at the mental picture of Four-One Charlie-Charlie soloing itself with a load of gloves aboard! But it has happened this way before, or so I've read.PS: I wonder if the FAA would require the empty airplane to "self-certify" its medical condition? Yuk, yuk!Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.netMSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide ... __________