Todd.
Congratulations.  I read about both of your flights, and it sounds great.

Steve Brooks

-----Original message-----
From: "Haywire" haywire@telus.net
Date: Sat,  3 Jul 2004 04:31:18 -0400
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" flyrotary@lancaironline.net
Subject: [FlyRotary] Into the blue again :-)

>      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".
>  
>