Original Posted By: Galen Hutcheson
Pietenpol-List: Well gone an did it today
Re: Pietenpol-List: Well gone an did it today
Original Posted By: Clif Dawson
RE: Pietenpol-List: Well gone an did it today
Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Mark,Get a copy of EAA's Aircraft Building Techniques - Wood. While you're atit, get all four of Tony Bingelis' books: The Sportplane Builder,Sportplane Construction Techniques, Firewall Forward, and Tony Bingelis onEngines. Other books I would recommend are the FAA's bible on aircraftrepair (which has a lot of information that can be applied to construction),AC-43.13. The EAA's book on aircraft welding is useful (there is asurprising amount of welding to be done on a wooden airplane), as isPolyFiber's book on how to cover an aircraft.If you can afford it, I would recommend two bandsaws - one for wood (andaluminum) and one for steel. I already had a Sears 12" bandsaw which servedme well for the woodworking. I bought a cheap Grizzly metalcutting bandsawfor about $200 and it did a fine job on all the steel parts. A goodbeltsander with an abrasive disc is a "nice to have" tool for dressing theedges of the steel parts, as well as finishing the wooden parts.Good Luck to you! You are about to embark on an adventure few have known.I can tell you that there is no better feeling in the world than feeling theplane you have built with your own hands lifting off the runway andresponding to your control, just as you have imagined it.Jack PhillipsRaleigh, NCCovering the new stabilizer for NX899JP this morning -----Original Message-----
Mark,Get a copy of EAA's Aircraft Building Techniques - Wood. While you're atit, get all four of Tony Bingelis' books: The Sportplane Builder,Sportplane Construction Techniques, Firewall Forward, and Tony Bingelis onEngines. Other books I would recommend are the FAA's bible on aircraftrepair (which has a lot of information that can be applied to construction),AC-43.13. The EAA's book on aircraft welding is useful (there is asurprising amount of welding to be done on a wooden airplane), as isPolyFiber's book on how to cover an aircraft.If you can afford it, I would recommend two bandsaws - one for wood (andaluminum) and one for steel. I already had a Sears 12" bandsaw which servedme well for the woodworking. I bought a cheap Grizzly metalcutting bandsawfor about $200 and it did a fine job on all the steel parts. A goodbeltsander with an abrasive disc is a "nice to have" tool for dressing theedges of the steel parts, as well as finishing the wooden parts.Good Luck to you! You are about to embark on an adventure few have known.I can tell you that there is no better feeling in the world than feeling theplane you have built with your own hands lifting off the runway andresponding to your control, just as you have imagined it.Jack PhillipsRaleigh, NCCovering the new stabilizer for NX899JP this morning -----Original Message-----
Re: Pietenpol-List: Well gone an did it today
Original Posted By: "Mark Blackwell"
M arkIf you can make it to Sun n Fun, we will be building a Fuselage and tailfeathers for Gardiner Mason at the show. Come by and look or help. Therewill also be demo's of building wing ribs or you can buy a completed setfrom Chrlie at the show if you want.Dick N.----- Original Message -----
M arkIf you can make it to Sun n Fun, we will be building a Fuselage and tailfeathers for Gardiner Mason at the show. Come by and look or help. Therewill also be demo's of building wing ribs or you can buy a completed setfrom Chrlie at the show if you want.Dick N.----- Original Message -----
Pietenpol-List: Well gone an did it today
Original Posted By: Galen Hutcheson
Re: Pietenpol-List: Well gone an did it today
Original Posted By: Galen Hutcheson