Pietenpol-List: Indinapolis Piets
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:09 pm
Original Posted By: "aviken"
Ragwing ultrapiet is wood,ply gussets fuse spars are ply Web with spruce caps. ribs are 1/4 x1/4 spruce with ply gussets. Very much like a scout . Fun airplane.Hard to get weight to legal. Ultralight with minimal panel, nice turtledeck,spoked motorcycle wheels and brakes mine came in as a perfect exampleof a fat Nevada ultralight and I loved itSent from my iPhone> On Feb 17, 2014, at 7:21 PM, "taildrags" wrote:> > > WF2 wrote-> >> A "pop" riveted gusset plate aluminum tube Pietenpol fuselage>> could be done .... would be an interesting exercise. Similar to>> an Airdrome plane construction> > Well, see, there's nothing new under the sun! Roger Mann's Ultra-Piet "RagWing"is exactly that, and it's been around a good while. Legal ultralight, performanceand dimensions actually quite close to the real Air Camper except thatthe Ultra-Piet is single place (by Part 103 definition). Most fly with air-cooled2-strokes. Plenty have been built and flown.> > http://rogermann.org/ragwing/designs/rw1/> > --------> Oscar Zuniga> Medford, OR> Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"> A75 power> > > > > Read this topic online here:> > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... 922#418922> > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Indinapolis Piets
Ragwing ultrapiet is wood,ply gussets fuse spars are ply Web with spruce caps. ribs are 1/4 x1/4 spruce with ply gussets. Very much like a scout . Fun airplane.Hard to get weight to legal. Ultralight with minimal panel, nice turtledeck,spoked motorcycle wheels and brakes mine came in as a perfect exampleof a fat Nevada ultralight and I loved itSent from my iPhone> On Feb 17, 2014, at 7:21 PM, "taildrags" wrote:> > > WF2 wrote-> >> A "pop" riveted gusset plate aluminum tube Pietenpol fuselage>> could be done .... would be an interesting exercise. Similar to>> an Airdrome plane construction> > Well, see, there's nothing new under the sun! Roger Mann's Ultra-Piet "RagWing"is exactly that, and it's been around a good while. Legal ultralight, performanceand dimensions actually quite close to the real Air Camper except thatthe Ultra-Piet is single place (by Part 103 definition). Most fly with air-cooled2-strokes. Plenty have been built and flown.> > http://rogermann.org/ragwing/designs/rw1/> > --------> Oscar Zuniga> Medford, OR> Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"> A75 power> > > > > Read this topic online here:> > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... 922#418922> > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Indinapolis Piets