Return-Path: Received: from beast.vigilante.net ([209.237.248.21] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c3) with ESMTP-TLS id 820150 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:16:07 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.237.248.21; envelope-from=stjohn@openbar.com Received: (qmail 32489 invoked by uid 89); 25 Mar 2005 16:32:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail.vigilante.net) (127.0.0.1) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Mar 2005 16:32:01 -0000 Received: from 4.27.4.209 (SquirrelMail authenticated user stjohn@openbar.com) by webmail.vigilante.net with HTTP; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:32:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1360.4.27.4.209.1111768321.squirrel@webmail.vigilante.net> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:32:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Another rotary airplane now flying From: "John Courte" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Reply-To: stjohn@openbar.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-rc1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Congratulations Bernie! Every time somebody gets one flying it motivates me to keep going down the rotary path, and whenever somebody gets a homebuilt flying, period, it's just the coolest thing by any means. Well done! > Congratulations, Bernie....now the fun begins !!! You have a beautiful > RV. > You will be a real asset to the rotary movement when your RV shows up at > flyins and the cowl comes off. Paul Conner > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:16 PM > Subject: [FlyRotary] Another rotary airplane now flying > > >> >> RV9A made a short circuit around the patch to day. Tom Hahn flew it >> since >> I had not realized that I needed a CFI endorsement for my insurance to >> activate. He has flown most of the local RV's on first flight. He had >> run >> the airplane at high power 3 times the length of the field (4000 feet of >> soft turf) and the coolant temp was very hot when he took off. Oil temps >> were good. >> >> He saw an indicated coolant temp of 249, but no coolant appeared to blow >> out of the system. Talked to Tracy and he said there were 2 different >> sensors and maybe I was cal'd wrong. We checked it and the cal was >> correct. It did not seem that hot when we taxied in and snatched the top >> cowl off. >> >> Scratching head on next step, but the airplane flew great! >> >> Bernie >> >>>> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ >>>> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html >> > > > >>> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ >>> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html >