X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from web81006.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.199.86] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.2) with SMTP id 1597867 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:43:26 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.142.199.86; envelope-from=deltaflyer@prodigy.net Received: (qmail 97231 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Nov 2006 00:43:07 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=qaOp3rGEyJRoW1tSyG/xgOyU7Tg3B6m39mzJ85sDGZ0yJZWTGd39+FAN0pDPFp+CBZYvj3BK/z0psR9YBp1oD9c9YlVNNUyG8vRKJjeMH8c+B/OgoWZtj2Fm+VSohWU3eypR2lcAAkzmxoQNWLbCMeUW487pqIDUTIkjs+NbPlI= ; Message-ID: <20061124004307.97229.qmail@web81006.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.76.134.5] by web81006.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:43:07 PST Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:43:07 -0800 (PST) From: James Maher Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] N93BD BD-4 First Flight To: Rotary motors in aircraft In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1944778012-1164328987=:96992" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --0-1944778012-1164328987=:96992 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Bob, Truely something to be very thankful for today. Congratulations on your first flight and many successful ones to follow. Jim (Dyke Delta 13B 1hr down 39 to go) Bob White wrote: I finally got my plane in the air, lifting off at 7:50AM this morning. OAT was about 40F. Flew for about 20 minutes, did one stall and landed to check everything. I bobbled around a bit on take off getting used to the control feel. Landing was uneventful. I will need to do some work on cooling as I expected. The oil cooler location is poor with not enough room behind it and oil temps are running about 10-15 deg warmer than the water. Both are too high for summer time flying. Max oil temp was about 220F, so it was higher than I wanted to see. I also want to recheck the calibration on the sensors just to make sure I didn't mess that up. Another rotary is now flying at least a little. Send me one of those buttons Tracy! :) Bob White -- N93BD - Rotary Powered BD-4 - http://www.bob-white.com First Flight: 11/23/2006 7:50AM Cables for your rotary installation - http://www.roblinphoto.com/shop/ -- Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/ --0-1944778012-1164328987=:96992 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Bob,
Truely something to be very thankful for today.
Congratulations on your first flight and many successful ones to follow.
Jim
(Dyke Delta 13B 1hr down 39 to go)

Bob White <rlwhite@comcast.net> wrote:
I finally got my plane in the air, lifting off at 7:50AM this morning.
OAT was about 40F. Flew for about 20 minutes, did one stall and landed
to check everything.

I bobbled around a bit on take off getting used to the control feel.
Landing was uneventful.

I will need to do some work on cooling as I expected. The oil cooler
location is poor with not enough room behind it and oil temps are
running about 10-15 deg warmer than the water. Both are too high for
summer time flying. Max oil temp was about 220F, so it was higher than
I wanted to see. I also want to recheck the calibration on the sensors
just to make sure I didn't mess that up.

Another rotary is now flying at least a little. Send me one of those
buttons Tracy! :)

Bob White

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First Flight: 11/23/2006 7:50AM
Cables for your rotary installation - http://www.roblinphoto.com/shop/

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