On Mar 29, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Bill Bradburry wrote:
Wow! Steve, what a beautiful airplane!
Thanks! The paint design took about 6 months of effort to come up with.
Do you have any pictures of your install you would like to share?
I'll get a few together for you-all.
What kind of prop is that?
It's an AeroComposites all-composite three blade constant-speed.
What PSRU and what static rpm are you
getting?
The PSRU is Mistral's. And I'm using a PCU 5000 prop governor. As for static RPM, I can't exactly say. I couldn't add full throttle for fear of overcoming my brakes and blocks.
You must have good cooling to be able to run at high power
settings that long on the ground. What is your cooling setup? Is this
a FWF from Mistral?
No, the FWF is mine as is the radiator setup. I also built the cowl from scratch as the Glasair cowl wouldn't fit and couldn't take advantage of the narrow form-factor of the engine. I had to cut back to idle because temps were in the red. But, at idle, the temps came down pretty quickly. My radiators came from Ed Klepeis, as did the radiator frame.
Can you trailer the plane to another airport to get in the air?
Not really. I cannot remove the wings like you can with the RVs. While the wing is removable, it would be several months of work on my part to R & R. To trailer, I'd have to take up both lanes of highway 101 for 45 miles.