Original Posted By: "Gardiner Mason"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Regarding radiators.....& lettersIn a message dated 3/15/2007 12:03:41 PM Central Daylight Time, M.Silvius(at)worldnet.att.net writes:it took me 10 yrs to figure out the =F1 or =D1 (alt 0241 and alt 0465 repectively on the key pad) Yep, and holding ALT while keying 167 makes the little 'degrees' zero. =BA Chuck G.************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.________________________________________________________________________________
Re: Pietenpol-List: Regarding radiators.....& letters
RE: Pietenpol-List: Regarding radiators.....& letters
Original Posted By: "Steve Eldredge"
Sorry, Mike in Cuyahoga Falls (or wherever you are), Paul in New Hampshire, and all the rest of you Pieters who are still iced out and snowed in. It was 82 degrees when I left work this afternoon. I drove 18 minutes to get to the hangar, opened the doors, the paint was nice and dry on my rudder repair and paint touch-up so I applied the new vinyl tail numbers and 41CC was ready to fly.Started after first pulling five blades with fuel on, throttle cracked, and mags off. Oil pressure came up, I got settled in, taxied to the active in a leisurely fashion, oil temp was moving off the peg, runup was clean, and we were off. We have just had 6 inches of rain in the last couple of days and the wildflowers are starting to pop up through the green grass, which made for a very pretty sight in the afternoon sun and clear sky.I flew a circuit and saw that my friend and his wife who had just been flying their Pelican had stopped what they were doing to come out to the edge of the runway and watch the Piet make the circuit. I forgot that nobody around here has ever seen it fly! Power back a little, stick forward, and start my turn down to the runway. 90MPH on the nose, lined up on the centerline but maybe 8-10 ft. off the deck, throttle at redline, and I flew the length of the runway just so everybody would get a good look. Actually, my real intent was to see what the x-wind was going to do to me so I wouldn't botch my first public landing at San Geronimo!Power back in, nose up to climb at 55 for another circuit and one or two more people were out on the porches of their houses watching me climb to pattern altitude. Lew Mason, Dave Baker, other guys who live on the airfield and who have seen me working on the plane innumerable Saturdays but have never seen it fly. Not even seen it with the wings on!One more 90MPH pass, I have the winds gauged pretty good, pull it up for my last downwind, set up for landing, and pretty much ace it by holding about 1700 RPM and watching the drift from the x-wind. I kept it straight and got it stopped right at the turnoff to our hangar, taxied in, parked it after logging 0.3 hrs., and got home in time to have some good Italian food. This is what it is all about! This is how to end your workday, Pieters! I have to steal Walt's famous line... "Ain't life grand?!" And from a guy over on the KRNet, another famous line: "There is a time for building and a time for flying, and the time for building is OVER!"Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net_________________________________________________________________Watch free concerts with Pink, Rod Stewart, Oasis and more. Visit MSN Presents today. http://music.msn.com/presents?icid=ncms ... ___Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Regarding radiators.....& lettersDate: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:03:18 -0600
Sorry, Mike in Cuyahoga Falls (or wherever you are), Paul in New Hampshire, and all the rest of you Pieters who are still iced out and snowed in. It was 82 degrees when I left work this afternoon. I drove 18 minutes to get to the hangar, opened the doors, the paint was nice and dry on my rudder repair and paint touch-up so I applied the new vinyl tail numbers and 41CC was ready to fly.Started after first pulling five blades with fuel on, throttle cracked, and mags off. Oil pressure came up, I got settled in, taxied to the active in a leisurely fashion, oil temp was moving off the peg, runup was clean, and we were off. We have just had 6 inches of rain in the last couple of days and the wildflowers are starting to pop up through the green grass, which made for a very pretty sight in the afternoon sun and clear sky.I flew a circuit and saw that my friend and his wife who had just been flying their Pelican had stopped what they were doing to come out to the edge of the runway and watch the Piet make the circuit. I forgot that nobody around here has ever seen it fly! Power back a little, stick forward, and start my turn down to the runway. 90MPH on the nose, lined up on the centerline but maybe 8-10 ft. off the deck, throttle at redline, and I flew the length of the runway just so everybody would get a good look. Actually, my real intent was to see what the x-wind was going to do to me so I wouldn't botch my first public landing at San Geronimo!Power back in, nose up to climb at 55 for another circuit and one or two more people were out on the porches of their houses watching me climb to pattern altitude. Lew Mason, Dave Baker, other guys who live on the airfield and who have seen me working on the plane innumerable Saturdays but have never seen it fly. Not even seen it with the wings on!One more 90MPH pass, I have the winds gauged pretty good, pull it up for my last downwind, set up for landing, and pretty much ace it by holding about 1700 RPM and watching the drift from the x-wind. I kept it straight and got it stopped right at the turnoff to our hangar, taxied in, parked it after logging 0.3 hrs., and got home in time to have some good Italian food. This is what it is all about! This is how to end your workday, Pieters! I have to steal Walt's famous line... "Ain't life grand?!" And from a guy over on the KRNet, another famous line: "There is a time for building and a time for flying, and the time for building is OVER!"Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net_________________________________________________________________Watch free concerts with Pink, Rod Stewart, Oasis and more. Visit MSN Presents today. http://music.msn.com/presents?icid=ncms ... ___Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Regarding radiators.....& lettersDate: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:03:18 -0600
Re: Pietenpol-List: Regarding radiators.....& letters
Original Posted By: Clif Dawson
RE: Pietenpol-List: Regarding radiators.....& letters
Original Posted By: "Bill Church"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: 3-, 4- and 5-bladed propsOne of the last propellers that Alvin Schubert tried on his successful VW-powered "Fledermaus" was a five-bladed prop that he carved. I forget what displacement Alvin's engine was, but it was just as successful with the five-bladeas with a two-blade prop. Alvin was a very talented propeller maker -- his book "How I Carve Propellers" was never published but you can see it in pdf format at: _http://www.flyingflea.org/docs/how_i_make_wood ... s%203.htm_ (http://www.flyingflea.org/docs/how_i_ma ... rs%203.htm) It is definitely worth reading if only just for a better understanding of RPM, pitch,diameter and airspeed. BTW, Alvin was the guy who carved the propeller for Bernard Pietenpol's Corvair-powered ship. I believe Bernard said that it was the best propeller heever flew behind. (I'm also kind of proud that I'm building my Piet from the plans that I got at Alvin's estate sale when he passed away several years ago. Apparently Alvin was contemplating building a Piet at some point but never quitegot around to it...)Anyway --- spring is on the way here in the Upper Mississippi regions...the ice is breaking up! Happy St. Paddy's day and take it easy on the green beer!Best regards to all!Fred B.La Crosse, WI ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.________________________________________________________________________________Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Regarding radiators.....& lettersDate: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:31:40 -0400
Subject: Pietenpol-List: 3-, 4- and 5-bladed propsOne of the last propellers that Alvin Schubert tried on his successful VW-powered "Fledermaus" was a five-bladed prop that he carved. I forget what displacement Alvin's engine was, but it was just as successful with the five-bladeas with a two-blade prop. Alvin was a very talented propeller maker -- his book "How I Carve Propellers" was never published but you can see it in pdf format at: _http://www.flyingflea.org/docs/how_i_make_wood ... s%203.htm_ (http://www.flyingflea.org/docs/how_i_ma ... rs%203.htm) It is definitely worth reading if only just for a better understanding of RPM, pitch,diameter and airspeed. BTW, Alvin was the guy who carved the propeller for Bernard Pietenpol's Corvair-powered ship. I believe Bernard said that it was the best propeller heever flew behind. (I'm also kind of proud that I'm building my Piet from the plans that I got at Alvin's estate sale when he passed away several years ago. Apparently Alvin was contemplating building a Piet at some point but never quitegot around to it...)Anyway --- spring is on the way here in the Upper Mississippi regions...the ice is breaking up! Happy St. Paddy's day and take it easy on the green beer!Best regards to all!Fred B.La Crosse, WI ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.________________________________________________________________________________Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Regarding radiators.....& lettersDate: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:31:40 -0400