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Way to go Perry. Glad you were able to get up for awhile. Even though I love
winter sports I do find it difficult to flight test. What were the OAT's in
Sask. today? That is one great thing about flying in the cold winter air.
S. Todd Bartrim
Turbo 13B RV-9Endurance
C-FSTB
http://www3.telus.net/haywire/RV-9/C-FSTB.htm
"Whatever you vividly imagine, Ardently desire, Sincerely believe in,
Enthusiastically act upon, Must inevitably come to pass".
-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On
Behalf Of Perry Casson
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 8:11 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] A good day flight testing
Hi All,
The weather gods finally took some mercy on us today so I've finally got
back to flight testing the Glastar/13B project. With the engine now
running quite well and all the tweaks after 1st flight completed we got
back into the air today. All I can say is wow!, I'd recently spent a
few hours in a 0-320 160HP powered Glastar and I must say even a lowly
six port, stock-ported 88 13B is quite a step up from the Lyc. 1600
ft/min climbs with two big guys on board puts us at circuit height
before the end of the 6000' runway and I think a top speed in the upper
160's mph will not be a problem (ok rv guys don't laugh but that's
respectable in a glastar) . The smoothness of the engine is just
amazing it's almost like being in a sailplane. I've still got a slight
oil leak either from engine seal or the rear redrive seal and on climb
my EGT are 70 degrees diff. other than that it was about as good as it
gets for a airplane with 2 hours on it.
Keep building guy's it's well worth the effort.
Perry Casson
http://eaa154.dhs.org/perry
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