X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from exhub003-1.exch003intermedia.net ([207.5.74.28] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.10) with ESMTPS id 3324819 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:19:42 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=207.5.74.28; envelope-from=jwhaley@datacast.com Received: from EXVMBX003-5.exch003intermedia.net ([207.5.74.45]) by exhub003-1.exch003intermedia.net ([207.5.74.28]) with mapi; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 04:19:05 -0800 From: Jeff Whaley To: Rotary motors in aircraft Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 04:19:04 -0800 Subject: First Flight Thread-Topic: First Flight Thread-Index: AclA4hRjdVMKZgdDR++pzwNPfeJP4wSy8xUA Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_C03ABB0A7362B84BB53D544B3C305E0ED132CD4B30EXVMBX0035exc_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_C03ABB0A7362B84BB53D544B3C305E0ED132CD4B30EXVMBX0035exc_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Tracy, if you haven't already heard it on the blog ... my homebuilt made= its first flight with the 13B, on Saturday, Nov 29. The engine and PSRU pe= rformed flawlessly ... except the water temperature reached 230F, oil was o= nly 160F ... after reading Ed's email I now know why ... I used a non-Mazda= thermostat and removed the bypass plug, which I thought was correct ... it= is only correct if you have the original one ... any other thermostat and = the bypass is supposed to be plugged. Jeff Whaley From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Beh= alf Of Tracy Crook Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 9:03 AM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Flight Authority for another Rotary Way to Jeff. As we all know here, actually finishing a flying machine, es= pecially with an alternative engine is a monumental task. You have passed= the perseverance test! Be careful and let us know how flight testing goe= s. Tracy On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Jeff Whaley > wrote: Ed, Cary, Tracy and others ... I received my Flight Authority last night in= the mail. Another rotary-powered machine is set to go ... delayed by one = week due to deer hunting and then the daunting task of begging for a test p= ilot. Next update after first flight. Jeff Whaley --_000_C03ABB0A7362B84BB53D544B3C305E0ED132CD4B30EXVMBX0035exc_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi Tracy, if you haven’t already heard it on the blog = … my homebuilt made its first flight with the 13B, on Saturday, Nov 29. The engi= ne and PSRU performed flawlessly … except the water temperature reached = 230F, oil was only 160F … after reading Ed’s email I now know why …= I used a non-Mazda thermostat and removed the bypass plug, which I thought was correct …= it is only correct if you have the original one … any other thermostat and = the bypass is supposed to be plugged.

Jeff Whaley

From: Rotary motors= in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Tracy Cro= ok
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 9:03 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Flight Authority for another Rotary

Way to Jeff. As = we all know here, actually finishing a flying machine, especially with an alternat= ive engine is a monumental task. You have passed the perseverance test! Be careful and let us know how flight testing goes.

Tracy

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Jeff Whaley <jwhaley@datacast.com> wrote:

Ed, Cary, Tracy and other= s … I received my Flight Authority last night in the mail. Another rotary-powered machine is set to go … delayed by one week due to deer= hunting and then the daunting task of begging for a test pilot. Next update after f= irst flight.

Jeff Whaley

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