Congrats, Todd, That must be a great feeling. I like running behind the engine I rebuilt myself instead of the "new" engine I used to have.
As I approach my first flight I need a reality check. Like Steve, I am starting to worry about cooling. I did some high speed taxi testing yesterday. Everything went very well but I am very impressed with how quickly using high power will make the coolant temps go up.
After 2 high speed runs down the 5000' runway everything seemed to be heat soaked and up to steady state - oil 180, coolant 160. With only a few seconds of high power needed to get me up to stall speed on my third run, the coolant had heated up to 220 by the end of the runway, but cooled back down to 180 on the taxi back.
This seems somewhat in line with what others have reported as successful, but I am afraid of what high power on climb-out is going to do.
Is there anyone who feels that this is probably not going to be good enough?
Thanks,
Dave Leonard
>
> Well after a little time out for an engine rebuild I finally got back
> into the air again. Tonight's flight was 1 hour and absolutely no problems
> at all. I wasn't planning on flying again until I installed my transponder
> due to an incredible amount of water bomber traffic at our strip, but the
> damned thing is still somewhere between Australia and here. They were
> extremely aggressive at attacking the fires so that when we had some
> moderately heavy rain these last 2 days they gained complete control and
> this morning declared them 100% contained. So this evening was eerily quite
> up at the airport, just begging for me to go flying... so we did.
> It sure was good to get back up there again. Tomorrow should be more of
> the same so I hope to get some good tests done and have more to report.
> S. Todd Bartrim
> Turbo 13B RV-9Endurance
> C-FSTB
> http://www3.telus.net/haywire/RV-9/C-FSTB.htm
>
> "Whatever you vividly imagine, Ardently desire, Sincerely believe in,
> Enthusiastically act upon, Must inevitably come to pass".
>
>
>
Well after a little time out for an engine rebuild I finally got back into the
air again. Tonight's flight was 1 hour and absolutely no problems at all. I
wasn't planning on flying again until I installed my transponder due to an
incredible amount of water bomber traffic at our strip, but the damned thing is
still somewhere between Australia and here. They were extremely aggressive at
attacking the fires so that when we had some moderately heavy rain these last 2
days they gained complete control and this morning declared them 100% contained.
So this evening was eerily quite up at the airport, just begging for me to go
flying... so we did.
It sure was good to get back up there again. Tomorrow should be more of
the same so I hope to get some good tests done and have more to
report.
S. Todd Bartrim
Turbo 13B RV-9Endurance
C-FSTB
http://www3.telus.net/haywire/RV-9/C-FSTB.htm
"Whatever you vividly imagine, Ardently desire, Sincerely believe in,
Enthusiastically act upon, Must inevitably come to pass".
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