Pietenpol-List: 2nd Japanese Piet
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 8:38 am
Original Posted By: Jim Markle
Hi to everyone on the Piet list,Just thought I would drop a quick note. I've been reading peoples comments on this list for quite some time now. I must say that most of it is pretty good and I've learned some very useful stuff about building a Piet.A while back, Mike Cuy commented about a Japanese based Piet. The builder of that one is a good friend of mine.Basically, I am Australian, living here for a while with my lovely wife, I repair damaged sailplanes for a living, fly R/C models as well as full size when I can get a seat. I own 2 sailplanes in Australia, one vintage design (all wood) and one FRP.I had always liked the Piet design but after meeting him and seeing his 'Piet in progress', it got me fired up enough to start building.Time is a big problem (not to mention space), I have been slowly playing around with it for about a year. I am still building ribs. (20 are complete). This is not exactly a speed record for building ribs but some progress is better than no progress!I am using Douglas Fir for the ribs.I bought a nice piece of it and then cut all of the cap strip material from it. I have already cut enough strip and made a 'kit' of rib parts so now I am just gluing my 'kit' together.I had planned to do the metal fittings but you can't but 4130 over here and the freight cost's from the USA are fairly high so I will wait until later.After the ribs are completed, I may built the tailfeathers as they don't take up too much storage space.I have attached a couple of photos, one is of the first of my ribs being built in the shadow of Mr.Mita's Piet, and the other one was taken when I completed one wing panels worth of ribs.Anyway, enough rambling from me at the moment! It is great to be able to read what others are doing and to know that someone will probably have answers to any areas that I may get stuck with as the Piet progress's along.When we move back to OZ (Australia), the Piet project will go with. This project will take a while but that's no problem.So, that's it for now, I will post a message occasionally now that I have started.Regards to all.Mark StanleyJapan(for now)________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:57:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Hi to everyone on the Piet list,Just thought I would drop a quick note. I've been reading peoples comments on this list for quite some time now. I must say that most of it is pretty good and I've learned some very useful stuff about building a Piet.A while back, Mike Cuy commented about a Japanese based Piet. The builder of that one is a good friend of mine.Basically, I am Australian, living here for a while with my lovely wife, I repair damaged sailplanes for a living, fly R/C models as well as full size when I can get a seat. I own 2 sailplanes in Australia, one vintage design (all wood) and one FRP.I had always liked the Piet design but after meeting him and seeing his 'Piet in progress', it got me fired up enough to start building.Time is a big problem (not to mention space), I have been slowly playing around with it for about a year. I am still building ribs. (20 are complete). This is not exactly a speed record for building ribs but some progress is better than no progress!I am using Douglas Fir for the ribs.I bought a nice piece of it and then cut all of the cap strip material from it. I have already cut enough strip and made a 'kit' of rib parts so now I am just gluing my 'kit' together.I had planned to do the metal fittings but you can't but 4130 over here and the freight cost's from the USA are fairly high so I will wait until later.After the ribs are completed, I may built the tailfeathers as they don't take up too much storage space.I have attached a couple of photos, one is of the first of my ribs being built in the shadow of Mr.Mita's Piet, and the other one was taken when I completed one wing panels worth of ribs.Anyway, enough rambling from me at the moment! It is great to be able to read what others are doing and to know that someone will probably have answers to any areas that I may get stuck with as the Piet progress's along.When we move back to OZ (Australia), the Piet project will go with. This project will take a while but that's no problem.So, that's it for now, I will post a message occasionally now that I have started.Regards to all.Mark StanleyJapan(for now)________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:57:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00)