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Thanks Yvon. One thing I failed to mention earlier is the noise, or lack thereof. I have a Lightspeed 20K ANR headset. I had put it on and tuned into the local CTAF so I could monitor traffic and announce my intentions, but I didn't activate it right away. When I finally did switch to ANR mode, I thought the engine had quit. It was eerie, so I turned the ANR feature off again. Ahhh, there's that sweet sound. While I did have the gullwing door closed, it wasn't latched, and it doesn't have a door seal installed yet. All throught the "fast taxi" runs up to 6100 rpm, it didn't even come close to being ear-piercing loud. So, it looks like my spiral-flow baffle is working, now if it can take the licking and keep on ticking, I'll be a happy camper. It has almost 13 hours on it, but most of that time is in the lower rpm ranges. The "torture test" still lies ahead. I don't know how much hp its costing me. For now, I guess I can let the wife have the Lightspeed, and I'll use the non-ANR headset. Now there's a switch for you.
Mark S.
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From: Rotary motors in aircraft on behalf of Yvon Cournoyer
Sent: Sat 3/3/2007 3:38 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Recent First Time Flyers!! FINAL CALL for CONTACT! Magazine Articles!!!
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
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