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Oshkosh
Trip
Notes -2008
<>I flew my RX-8 Renesis powered RV - 7A to Oshkosh
on Sunday and left on Thursday. Great
Trip!! Tracy Crook, Paul Lamar and Dave
Atkins also were there. Tracy and Dave
flew their RV’s and had them on display.
We all parked together in the home built – alternate engine
display area
adjacent to runway 36. We had lots of
interest in the rotary conversions and Tracy
was busy talking to visitors continuously.
I had a great time visiting with Tracy
during the fly-in!!
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My brother and I flew in my RV so we were fully loaded with
tents, clothes etc. My max. take-off weight
is 1850# and I had to remove 12 gallons of fuel after we loaded our
stuff!
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Sunday we flew from the Austin
area (40XS) to Fayetteville (FYV) than Monmouth,
Il. (C66) and on to OSH. Total distance was 1120 miles. I
used Airnav.com to plan the route to use
Mogas. The first two legs were at 7500
ft. altitude. Coming home we stopped at
De Kalb (DKB) and spent some time with my relatives.
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From De Kalb we
flew to Fayetteville and
than to Austin
at 8500 ft. The following is typical
engine data from the EM-2.
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Altitude – 8500ft. Oil
Press. – 78 psi
OAT – 76 F Oil
temp. – 199 F
MP – 21 in. hg Oil
pan temp – 127 F
RPM – 5700 Water
temp – 178 F
TAS- 158 mph GPH
– 7.4
MPG – 21.3
<>Normally the cruise fuel economy was 21 to 23 MPG.
depending
on how lean of peak I was running.
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Friday afternoon I departed Fayetteville
Ark. and at 500 ft altitude the OAT
was
reading 104 F! As my oil temp reached
215 F and my water reached 200 F, I reduced power to 24 in-hg and
climbed at
135 mph. The oil temp came down to 212
and the water went to 191 F with plenty of climb rate! My
maximum oil temperature in the oil pan
reached 245 F. during the climb to 8500.
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I flew 2130 miles, climbed to 7500 or 8500 feet five times
and had two long taxi times at Oshkosh
while using about 128 gallons of
auto-fuel for the trip.
Dennis H.
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