Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: "Dick Navratil"
Distances between ribs are only shown on the 1 piece wing plans. Have 3 piecewing builders just scooted the first rib from the root in changing position from11" between the first 2 ribs to 9" keeping the other measurements of the 1pc wing? ...or does that cause interference with the drag and anti-drag wires?...or do you just move them to positions that are close to the measurementsfor 1 pc wing and slide to a place to eliminate interference, record the spacingand repeat symetrically on the other side? Not ready to do this yet, justplanning it out.Thanks--------Glenn ThomasN?????http://www.flyingwood.comRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... __________

Original Posted By: "Glenn Thomas"
GlennDo you have the 3 piece wing plan supplement? If not, it's worth getting. There are a few extra details you will need to consider.Dick N.----- Original Message -----

Original Posted By: Glenn Thomas
Hi Glenn...Your last sentence is correct...Use the one piece wing spacing except for the roor rib and scoot them minimally as needed to clear the wires. I'm doing my 1st wing now and just learned something the hard way. The trend according to the list is to align the lift strut brackets on the wing to line up with the struts ( 28 degrees) instead of Bernie's way, to eliminate some stresses. I saw that the British plans which do this move the brackets out 3" but never guessed why. I wanted my lift struts to the plans so I put them in at 28 degrees with the eye in the origional position. When I went to put my ribs on,the bracket interfered with rib # 8. I had to move it outboard 15/16" and then do some creative spacing on all the other ribs. Hope you can follow all this. If I had to do it again I would move the bracket outboard like in the Britt's plans. Hope this helps you and anyone else planning to change the brackets....Ed G. ----- Original Message -----

Original Posted By: "Oscar Zuniga"
That's exactly what I was wondering about. I wasn't sure if I needed to createa couple ribs with openings that accomodate the plywood reinforcement and bracketat the lift strut bracket or if that misses the rib. Then I got into thewhole spacing issue to figure out where the ribs land on the 3 piece wing andrealized that there are no given measurements. I can see that the ribs on theoutside of the center section and the ribs for the cabanes will need largeropenings for hardware, didn't know if that was the case for the lift strut attacharea ribs.--------Glenn ThomasN?????http://www.flyingwood.comRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... __________

Original Posted By: "Don Emch"
Howdy, 'polers;Over the weekend I received a calendar from the Lee Bottom Flying Field folks. Really sound like "our kind" of people. I am either dreaming or at some time in the past I was subscribed to their e-newsletter, the "NORDO News", but can't remember ever receiving it.Any of you Pietenpolers ever make it to their fly-in in September, in Indiana? I know at least two of you must have in the past because in the photo featured on the calendar, a DC-3 is shown touching down on the grass runway and there is a Piet clearly visible in the background, along the flight line. It appears to be the "Last Original" or one just like it. Also in their photos online, there is a Piet shown in one of the photos.Anybody that loves tailwheels, grass strips, and old airplanes as much as these folks, can't be all that bad!Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net_________________________________________________________________Want a degree but can't afford to quit? Top school degrees online - in as fast as 1 year http://forms.nextag.com/goto.jsp?url=/s ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Lee Bottom Flying Field

Original Posted By: "Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC]"
The Piet is probably Jim Kinsella's beautiful ship, I know he really likes to goto that Fly-in. Supposed to be one of the better ones.Don EmchRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Lee Bottom Flying FieldDate: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:16:00 -0600

Original Posted By: Gene Beenenga