HI Joe,

As far as the 40 hours, I have good and bad news.  I think that I'm right at
the 40 hours, or maybe a couple of tenths shy.  The bad news is that I had
trouble with the reduction drive, and after putting it back together, had
another issue, so I don't have any trips to SC or flight s planned for the
next couple of weeks.  The plane is still in SC, and I want to put a few
more hours after putting it back together, before making the 1.5 to 2 hours
flight up to NC.

As far as the house goes, we got our final inspection on Monday, and
proceeded to move everything in.  We are in, but as you can imagine, a lot
of stuff still boxed.  Most of my plane parts are still in storage.  I think
I'm going to have to build a detached garage/workshop to put all of the
tools, parts, toys, and etc. in.

I wouldn't worry too much about 200 degree oil temps while running at full
throttle.  I see that on a regular basis on climb out after take off.  In
the early days, I saw 240 a few times, but it didn't seem to cause any
damage.  Perhaps 240 for long periods might be a different story, but 200
seems to be within the normal range.  I'd like to know what the RX-7 oil
temps run on a 90+ day sitting in traffic.  Probably would scare you.

As far as your speeds, they don't sound bad with the gear down.  I still
haven't put wheel pants on the mains, and I've been watching how much I push
the stock turbo.  The fastest I've seen so far was about 150 kts with the
gear up, and at about 5000 RPMs showing about 2-3 lbs of boost.  That was
also at about 2000 AGL, and the A/S indicator tracks pretty close with the
GPS.

Your flight plan sounds good so far, but you may want to explore some slower
flight before too long.

Regards,
Steve Brooks


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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On
Behalf Of Joe Hull
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 3:52 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: ***SPAM*** [FlyRotary] 1st Flights -


Thanx Steve. Yep, I was waiting for Buly to get his first flight in before I
did mine - you know "age before beauty" (or was that "pearls before swine")!


How's the 40 hours and your house (since I know they are connected!)? Did
you get your plane moved?

I did my second flight today - 1.3 hours with lots of turns from gradual 10
degree to 60 degrees. I also ran the engine hard - full throttle - for about
30 minutes in mostly straight and level flight - but with the gear down
still. I was getting 140kts at 5300RPM - but that's all I could get. The oil
temps were also hitting 200 degrees - so I backed off and let things cool
down to 180. The next flight I'm slated to put the gear up and we'll try it
again and see what kind of RPM/speed I get. I'm not looking to test the
upper end of the speed yet - just want to know I can get to 150kts for now.

Thanx,
Joe Hull
Cozy Mk-IV #991 (In Phase1 Flight Test - 1.9 hrs flown)
Redmond (Seattle), Washington

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
> Behalf Of Steve Brooks
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:53 AM
> To: Rotary motors in aircraft
> Subject: ***SPAM*** [FlyRotary] 1st Flights -
>
> Buly and Joe,
> Congratulations on your successful first flights.  I just got a chance to
> check my email, and was surprised to see not one, but two first flights of
> more rotary canards.
>
> Looks like the canards are starting to take over !
>
> Steve Brooks
> Cozy MKIV N75CZ
> 13 B turbo
>
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