John,

 

    Fantastic...!  Great job...!

 

    Super glad to hear that you've gotten the airplane into the air.  We should be expecting flight reports, shouldn't we...?

Jack Beale

 

 

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Fellow rotarians,

I'm happy to announce that, after just over 5 years building, Cozy IV plans # 757 danced the skies this morning in a short but sucessful flight.

I've read others say that their first flight was "uneventful" and thought this to be a strange choice of words. Now I can appreciate the term because that's exactly what it was - uneventful.

Take off run was about 2000 ft on just over 1/2 throttle and wastegate fully open. Coolant temp was at about 185 in the climb, and 175 on the downwind. The engine purred smoothly, if a litle rich. (The fuel injection computer still needs some airborne tuning at various Manifold pressures.) The approach was a little fast but I managed to put her on the numbers at 75kts (thanks, Paul) and the touchdown was smooth. I used only a little braking to pull off at the end of the 3400 ft runway. I flew her once around the pattern - total time about 6 minutes.

My thanks to all the people on this group without who's input this could not have been done.

So now, the adventure begins...

John Slade

Cozy Mk IV Turbo Rotary N96PM