Congratulations Ron, what a beautiful aircraft.
I envy you truth be told, but someday I will be where you are.
Do take care and above all....be safe and make the right decisions in
regards to fly/no fly.........wouldn't want to break your beautiful new
airplane or yourself, huh? :>)
Do take care,
Steve Soza-Gorham


-----Original Message-----
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of
Ron Raby
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:29 PM
To: Lancair Mailing List
Subject: [LML] first flight

To Everyone:
>
> I made my first flight yesterday. Test pilot Charlie Kohler took it up
for
> the first time. He was # 2 behind a Columbia 300. The ES left the
ground
> at
> least 300' sooner than the 300. Then it was my turn. I noticed that it
was
> slightly faster than the 172 that I was flying. Ha, anyway all went
well
> and
> I logged 4 hours of flight time. We did some stalls, landings. it
seemed
> like 5 minutes, not four hours.
>
> I want to thank everyone on the list for all the ideas and help that I
> received. Definitely made my project come out better than I could have
> imagined.
>
> Regards
>
> Ron Raby
>
> ES 163 Flying
>