Pietenpol-List: step stool ? Dig a hole
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:14 pm
Original Posted By: "walt evans"
Original Posted By: "Phillips, Jack"
Gene,I checked out Ron W's website with the Fly Baby windshield info a while back. Notsure if that was what you were referring to, as a search on "fly baby windshield"doesn't return any hits and with no quotes, it returns about 30 thousand.Anyway he suggest a faceted Lexan windshield. I have .040 aluminum, and Plexiglasin large quantities.. thats pretty heavy to try to form into a frame bybending, so I would be in to making inside/outside pieces, bonding/riveting..etc, pretty complex compared to getting a single piece of Plexiglas cut and shapedand mounting it with simple aluminum fittings.The Pietenpol Aerial at the St. Louis air museum has exactly the type of facetedwindshield suggested, and my second choice way of doing the windshield wouldbe to go study it and get measurements/construction details and do it that way.What I would love to do, but think is too complex/heavy/time consuming, would beto make up a PT-26 style sliding canopy, then add cabin heat and gain a fewmore months of flying time a year. Thought about it till I looked at where thesupports and cables for the center section of the wing run. It would be reallytricky to make slides and canopy sections that could work around all the stuffin the way. So, I want to keep it simple.JimRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Re: Forming Plexiglass and LexanDate: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:20:19 -0500