Hi Joe,
Has been a while. I’ve been
extremely busy at work, and was also trying to finish up landscaping this fall
around the new house. Also helping
my youngest daughter and her husband build a house, so my free time has really
been at a premium.
The plane was really running great, and I had just gotten the 40 hours
flown off when I had trouble with the gear spinning on the reduction
drive. After that, I had 2 or 3
other little things that kept popping up.
I didn’t want to make the trip until everything was perfect.
BTW – How is you new exhaust working out ? I’m still waffling back and forth on either going NA, or
trying to decide on which turbo to use.
I like the power when you need it of the turbo, but the stock turbo I view
as my weakest link. I have almost 50
hours on mine, but my dependability views are based on John Slade’s result with
stock turbos.
Dave Leonard, if you have a chance, let me know how many hours you had on
the hybrid turbo you installed, and how it was performing. It would be much easier to go to that turbo,
rather than converting to a T04.
Steve Brooks
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From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On Behalf
Of Joe Hull
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006
12:22 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Plane
moved to NC finally
Steve,
I sensed your “vibes”! I
was just thinking on Friday that I hadn’t heard any news from you in a while
and wondered if you had been able to move your Cozy back to NC.
That’s great news – now
you can actually go out and enjoy it when the weather cooperates!
Regards,
Joe Hull
Redmond/Seattle WA,
Cozy-Mazda Rotary 69hrs
Friday, I went down to SC to replace my fuel rail,
which had developed a slight leak. Had three days of perfect
weather. High temperatures in the upper 60’s, clear skies, and light
winds. I replaced the fuel rail, and after switching to different o-rings on
the RC engineering injectors, I got a perfect seal. The stock Mazda seals
would not work on these injectors, but thankfully Paul Brannon had the correct
o-rings.
It was getting dusk, but I managed to get in one trip
around the pattern.
On Saturday I made two flights, totally a little over
an hour, and everything ran great. Well, other than I messed with the
mixture on mode 3, and ended up being too lean when I throttled down in the
pattern.
Yesterday, I made the flight of about 190 NM and the
plane and engine were perfect. It was a beautiful day, and while not
unlimited visibility, it was probably 30-40 miles, clear skies, and very smooth
air at my cruising altitude of 3500 MSL. I flew the trip at about 55-60 %
power, since I am still nursing along my stock turbo. Still made about
125-130 KTS, and only took about 90 minutes to make the trip, with a 10 KT
headwind most of the way. It was very nice, after all the little problems
I had, to have a trouble free flight. The rotary engine just signs along,
not missing a beat.
OAT was about 67 degrees, and engines temperatures
ran at 185 on coolant and 180 on the oil, at 4800 RPM’s. The oil is a
digital display that should be very accurate. The coolant is an analog
gauge, so the 185 is more of a guess. The needle was slight above the 180
mark.
I also got to see the first flight of Paul and Lou’s
Lancair with the 20B. I’m sure that one of them will tell everyone about
it.
Steve Brooks
Cozy MKIV N75CZ
Turbo 13B – 47 hours