Pietenpol-List: Steel-tube fuselage update - landing gear
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:12 am
Original Posted By: "aerocarjake"
Douwe,I admire your plane, your art and your thoughts. Let me add $.01 to the commentson people being persistent enough to finish a plane.To finish a plane, it is a requirement that a builder not listen to all the peoplewho tell him he will fail or is doing things wrong. In a 6 year build thismight mean ignoring several hundred people, mostly obviously playing the roleof 'Eeyore', but others who pose as' friendly' advisors. Ignore every one ofthem, keep working, and the plane will get done.Is this the definition of successful homebuilding? I say it isn't. Completing theplane isn't success, learning is. A guy who listens to no one learns nothingand often creates the poor flying hangar queen you mention. His completed planemight be a rarity, but the mindset of not being willing to consider anythingthat might evolve one's views is quite common today.My definition of success is the guy who finishes the plane, ignores the 98% ofthe people who are negative, but learns from 4 or 5 trusted advisors who get himto consider things that make his plane far better than it would have been.This guy not only has a good flying plane, has learned a lot, he also has trustedfriends and is in a position to share something. The actual rarity in societyis not the bullheaded man who will not stop, it is the man wise enough tolisten, examine evidence, and change his perspective if it improves what he ismaking.The biggest between a poor plane for sale on barnstormers with 2 hours on it anda great one sitting at Brodhead with 500 hours on the tach is mostly in themindset of the builder. Both planes are made of roughly the same quantity of wood,metal and fabric, and the likely took about the same effort to build. Thedifference is mostly in what the builder was willing to learn.The barnstormer plane, and the dozens like it that were never completed are nota good use of materials nor human time. They are not art either. If I want art,I can study and be moved by the work of Douwe or Felix de Weldon.-ww.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Steel-tube fuselage update - landing gear
Douwe,I admire your plane, your art and your thoughts. Let me add $.01 to the commentson people being persistent enough to finish a plane.To finish a plane, it is a requirement that a builder not listen to all the peoplewho tell him he will fail or is doing things wrong. In a 6 year build thismight mean ignoring several hundred people, mostly obviously playing the roleof 'Eeyore', but others who pose as' friendly' advisors. Ignore every one ofthem, keep working, and the plane will get done.Is this the definition of successful homebuilding? I say it isn't. Completing theplane isn't success, learning is. A guy who listens to no one learns nothingand often creates the poor flying hangar queen you mention. His completed planemight be a rarity, but the mindset of not being willing to consider anythingthat might evolve one's views is quite common today.My definition of success is the guy who finishes the plane, ignores the 98% ofthe people who are negative, but learns from 4 or 5 trusted advisors who get himto consider things that make his plane far better than it would have been.This guy not only has a good flying plane, has learned a lot, he also has trustedfriends and is in a position to share something. The actual rarity in societyis not the bullheaded man who will not stop, it is the man wise enough tolisten, examine evidence, and change his perspective if it improves what he ismaking.The biggest between a poor plane for sale on barnstormers with 2 hours on it anda great one sitting at Brodhead with 500 hours on the tach is mostly in themindset of the builder. Both planes are made of roughly the same quantity of wood,metal and fabric, and the likely took about the same effort to build. Thedifference is mostly in what the builder was willing to learn.The barnstormer plane, and the dozens like it that were never completed are nota good use of materials nor human time. They are not art either. If I want art,I can study and be moved by the work of Douwe or Felix de Weldon.-ww.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Steel-tube fuselage update - landing gear