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Congrats, Mark, and it is only beginning

Yvon
C-FCPB
Sorel
Québec
Canada

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steitle, Mark R" <mark.steitle@austin.utexas.edu>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 7:58 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Recent First Time Flyers!! FINAL CALL for 
CONTACT! Magazine Articles!!!


I'm not Joe, Bob, Jim, Buly, John, et al (whoever that is), but I made a 
major leap (well, maybe one giant step) forward yesterday.  As some of 
you know, for the past six years I have been building a Lancair ES 
powered by a N/A 20B.  I've been in the 90% done, 90% to go for over a 
year now.  Well, yesterday was a nice day at Lockhart, TX, and I had 
just finished installing the Skybolt fasteners to the upper cowl and 
couldn't find anything else to do, so I rolled it out of the hangar and 
started it up and ran it for 5 minutes.  It was running so well I 
decided that it was a good day for a taxi run.  With my Lightspeed 
headset over my ears, I headed off for my first taxi in N208TX. While 
this surely pales in comparison to an actual first flight, it was very 
gratifying.  When I started out there were no a/c in the pattern, or on 
the taxiways.  Ten minutes later there were people and a/c everywhere. 
We even had an honest-to-goodness traffic jam with three a/c stopped at 
one intersection.  I guess you can chalk that up to Murphy.  Anyway, all 
went well and I taxied around for about 20 minutes and then returned to 
the hangar.  For the rest of the day I had a hard time wiping the grin 
off my face.  While I still have more stuff to do before first flight, 
"it won't be long now".

Mark S.
N208TX
Lockhart, TX