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From: Bulent Aliev <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Recent First Time Flyers!!  FINAL CALL for CONTACT! Magazine Articles!!!
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:26:39 -0500
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

Mark, I don't know who these guys you mentioned below are, but I'm  
glad to hear you made your first taxi. We had 3 experimentals taxiing  
at about the same time at FXE and I suggested we do a formation high  
speed taxi in front of the tower. Looking forward to hear about your  
first flight. Do it before the TX heat sets in. Good Luck.
Bulent "Buly" Aliev
FXE Ft lauderdale, FL
  http://tinyurl.com/dcy36
>
> 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