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| Subject: | First Flight N926MM |
--> RV8-List message posted by: "Ed Perry" <eperry@san.rr.com>
Hi All fellow listers,
Today at about 12:30pm My Tech Counc. Fred LaForge took to the sky with my RV-8,
injected 180/CS . I flew chase with Gary Hart in his RV-6. As far as I could
tell it all went really well. We ate lunch after he landed, and then my mom gave
me the OK so I was out of there. Full throttle looked down to check oil pressure
and it was too late, already airborne and clmbing like crazy. Fred followed
in his RV-4 with RV-7 builder Robert Paisley. we took a long hot flight out
to the practice area and after some slow flight and quick manuevers we came
back to Cable and landed. It was my first hour and it was too short but the OAT
at 7,000' was over 100 and we had to get back.
So here are all those answers to the questions I had about first flights. Takeoff
roll-no idea, but short. Rate of climb 110kts 1680'/min. Cruise at 6500' no
gear fairings 125-130kts at 24/2400. All my temps were good the hottest cylinder
was #3 at 405 during climb and then 385 level. Coolest was #1 335. Oil temp
was 210-212 in the desert and 204 climbing out in the city. I have a firewall
mounted 7 row S/W oil cooler and an aluminum plenum. The GPS showed a continous
150-155kts but I was told that if I wanted to fly to OSH with the group I'd
have to put the fairings on and speed it up.
I can't thank the lists and the people at CCB enough for making all this possible,
without all this good advise and talented help I would still be working
on the tail kit.
Like Rosie says, "Keep Pounding those rivets"
Ed Perry
N926MM RV-8 180/CS
1.5 hrs.
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