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Thanks for the compliments, I'm pretty pleased with new look myself.

It is not pleasant to taxi at the moment because the brakes have not been "conditioned" yet and I can't hold it at more than 1/2 throttle with full weight on the brakes, so differential braking is difficult and I expected more steering out of the tailwheel. Those big tires have very little rolling resistance, which will be nice, but right now with poor braking they sure don't help. When I first taxied as a tricyle gear it was at the airport so I had room to properly "condition" the brakes and the little 5x5 wheels didn't have much torque, so I really don't recall much concern. Right now it is a real challenge, but I'm confident that will improve. Oh yeah, then there's that visibilty thing! Still, I'm confident that I made the right choice and will enjoy this much more.

As far as wheel pants go, I'm not going to worry about that. I'll eat the drag penalty in exchange for being able to go more places. Right now I'm more concerned with finishing the wheel-skis so I can do stuff like this

https://youtu.be/vJ9seJWaoc8

That's the end goal.

Todd Bartrim

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Charlie England ceengland7@gmail.com <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:

On 6/7/2018 5:54 PM, Todd Bartrim bartrim@gmail.com wrote:

Hey Guys;

Some of you may recall that I was ready to bring my project back to the airport last summer when I posted the following video.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/j5uxgvtHyzWJZgHE2

Unfortunately due to a bad forest fire season that forced the relocation of another water-bomber base to my local airport which was already busy with our own base, there simply was not any room for me not to mention the fact they would likely not have had much patience for my test flying with the constant airtanker traffic.

So what to do... well at about 1 minute into the above video you can see how easily my little nose wheel gets stuck in a minor soft spot on the lawn. This confirmed my long held belief that I'd built the wrong plane for me, but what to do about it now...?

So I got rid of the damn little wheel and put an even smaller one way back at the other end, then not satisfied with that I put a set of 22' Tundra tires up front where they belong! The following video shows the new RV9.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/52jOTfy0HZxqd6x02

I did make a few tweaks etc. on the engine, but it's largely unchanged from last year. But despite not being run since last summer, it fired up like I'd ran it yesterday.

I also added a small hydraulic landing gear pump and ran all the lines down to the wheels to operate a set of retractable wheel skis that I'm currently working on for next winter.

While I was at it, I decided it was time for a new look, so I removed much of the old vinyl and bought a small desktop vinyl cutter and did all the graphics too. Of particular interest to the group though, would be this graphic

https://photos.app.goo.gl/HwVA2GdIAr8sQWCR2

Quite a few years ago there was a T-shirt discussion here on the group and a few designs were proposed. I believe that this design was drawn by George Lendich from down under back in 2010.

He had submitted the design to CafePress and I'd actually bought a couple. I couldn't find the image file so I took a screenshot from the CafePress website as it's still there, then turned it into a vector graphic, which I could use with my vinyl cutter.

So if anybody else would like the image file for this, i'd be happy to share it. Of coarse maybe we should ask George, but it seems he made his last post here back in late 2010.

Heck I'd even cut some decals and send for free to anybody that wants one for their own project.

Todd Bartrim (got to learn to fly a taildragger now)

C-FSTB

RV9 no more "a"

Turbo13B

Lookin' goooood! That's how an RV is supposed to look. :-) And if you can ice skate & swat a little black thing around at the same time, you won't have any trouble learning to fly it. Do you think a pair of RV-10 wheel pants will cover those tires?

I'm impressed that you can make a frustrating delay so productive.

Don't lose that scan; when I get a bit closer to flying, I'd like to get a copy.

Charlie

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