Me too Ed. Unfortunately, I made my flight date decision late last
night. The weather guessers were predicting 50 kt headwinds for me today
and weather OKay for Friday with lower winds, so......
Guess you have checked it yourself by now but the forecast for Texas
on Friday has rapidly gone downhill. Hope they are wrong.
Tracy
Have
a safe trip, Buly. I plan on heading out in the morning myself,
weather permitting.
Ed
Ed Anderson
Rv-6A N494BW Rotary
Powered
Matthews, NC
eanderson@carolina.rr.com
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From: "Buly" <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>
To:
"Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent:
Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Testing has
started
> Yesterday I loaded the front seat of my CZ with 500
pounds of lard (me
> and Richard Richmond) and did 3 not too high
speed runs on runway 31.
> We had cross wind for the long runway
so they put us on 31 which is the
> shorter of the two
>
Plane tracked nicely and accelerated well. The Matco brakes did their
job
> nicely with the high load. First run was only at 40-45
Knots. Second and
> third were 55-60K. Richard is a long time
glider pilot and LEZ driver. I
> asked him to do the driving
since he has something to compare to. The
> Turbo 13B rotary is
impressive. Last week I installed on my stock turbo a
> second
1.5" exhaust tube parallel to the main to bypass the turbine and
> reduce the turbo's RPM / high boost. (One day I will install a
bigger
> turbo)
> Had to pull the throttle back on Richard the
first time and make him keep
> the MP below 32". He said "This
thing is ready to fly".
> I will have to adjust some small "things" yet
on the engine and than let
> him lift the canard on the long 6000
ft runway.
> Thanks to John Slade for landing me his newly refinished
Performance
> prop. He has flown with it and I know it will fly with my
plane. For the
> taxi tests I taped the back side of the prop
blades with one layer of
> clear packing tape to reduce dings,
and it is holding very well. Nobody
> can tell there is tape on
the prop unless looks from 3". That's all for
> now Folks.
Heading for TX in the morning and hope to see you there.
>
>
Buly
> http://tinyurl.com/dcy36
>
>
>
>
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