Greetings,

 

I’m hoping for a first engine run this weekend, and had a question for all of you that ran before assembling your planes.  Van does not recommend running Lycoming engines with the wings of the plane removed, because the power pulses will damage the tail.  That shouldn’t be a problem for me, but how about torque?   Do I need to be worried at all about the plane torquing to one side?  It doesn’t seem likely, but I thought I’d ask if anyone saw much of a torque effect.  This is with the prop, btw.

 

Thanks,

 

Rusty