Pietenpol-List: Fuse choices
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:03 pm
Original Posted By: Douwe Blumberg
Mine is the 1932 version. Given your requirements, I REALLY think you should trackdown some planes and try them on. Bill makes a SUPER good point. Light is going to be critical. I even suggesta one piece wing. I have taken a 205 lb pax, 6' 2", at brodhead with a a65. Not stellar performance! An 85hp engine is probably the way to go for a cont. the corvair is rated arounda hundred. Kevin Purtee took me for a ride, he's taller and bigger than I,with that engine and it flew really well. Food for thought. A,common belief is you'll save money with a car engine. Not really so when builtcorrectly. It's just a different way to go. Properly built however, I reallydon't think you're compromising on safety. As for gear, again, find one configured like you want, known to fly and handlewell, and do what he did. However, with wood gear legs, not real hard to changewhere the axle is relative to the firewall. Four pieces of wood. I made mine,a rebuild issue, out of a really nice southern yellow pine pallet. The legswere free...Start building fittings, ribs, wing, tail feathers and keep asking and lookingon the fuse until you think you're set would be my advice. ToolsRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Fuse choices
Mine is the 1932 version. Given your requirements, I REALLY think you should trackdown some planes and try them on. Bill makes a SUPER good point. Light is going to be critical. I even suggesta one piece wing. I have taken a 205 lb pax, 6' 2", at brodhead with a a65. Not stellar performance! An 85hp engine is probably the way to go for a cont. the corvair is rated arounda hundred. Kevin Purtee took me for a ride, he's taller and bigger than I,with that engine and it flew really well. Food for thought. A,common belief is you'll save money with a car engine. Not really so when builtcorrectly. It's just a different way to go. Properly built however, I reallydon't think you're compromising on safety. As for gear, again, find one configured like you want, known to fly and handlewell, and do what he did. However, with wood gear legs, not real hard to changewhere the axle is relative to the firewall. Four pieces of wood. I made mine,a rebuild issue, out of a really nice southern yellow pine pallet. The legswere free...Start building fittings, ribs, wing, tail feathers and keep asking and lookingon the fuse until you think you're set would be my advice. ToolsRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Fuse choices