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Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 11:29
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Rev-3 flies...
... tomorrow
:-)
Sorry, couldn't
resist. I spent almost all day working on the &*#%$ spinner.
Somehow I've managed to avoid fitting spinners all these years, so apparently,
I've been lucky.
The prop is HUGE, and
absolutely beautiful. All the old men come by the hanger and drool
over it. Good thing it's got that sealer coat :-)
I'm off tomorrow, so I
hope to have the spinner put together in the first hour, then mount the prop,
tune the engine, and zoom zoom. Of course the Navy will be stinking up
the airspace (sorry Dave), so I have a 1400 ft ceiling. Let's see,
that's about 30 seconds of climb :-)
The biggest question is
how bad the torque problem will be. I'll build up enough speed to
make the rudder work well before I go to full throttle. I'm really
hoping that it's good enough to fly for a while, to get done with
the experimental time, and make all the fly-in's in
Oct.
Cheers,
Rusty (check that input
shaft yet Ed?)