1st Flight!  Good to see you back in the air, Bernie.  Once you get your
gauges calibrated then you will know how much work on the cooling system may
be needed.  I suspect that once you get your oil temps down, your coolant
will follow by itself.  That is about what I had on my first flight oil
240F, coolant 220F.  Once I took care of the oil temps, the coolant temps
were OK.

Hope you can fly it to Sun & Fun - still awaiting return of my prop from
final finishing.

Ed A
----- Original Message -----
From: <jbker@juno.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 5:38 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] flights 2&3 of 19VX


>
> Made and installed a 5/8 inch orifice for thermostat fitting. Made a flap
door.
>
> Hahn flew first flight of day. 76 degree OAT. Repeat pattern from first
flight, 4900 RPM 135 knot patterns and oil stabilized hot side at 230 and
water only  read 212.
>
> I flew the #3 flight with door clamped open but OAT was 87. Temps were
about the same.
>
> Later discovered that while calibrating the water temp probe with boiling
water yesterday, I had temporarily moved the wire to the cold side probe. So
todays test meaningless regarding flap and orifice on water temp. Will
repeat tomorrow afternoon weather permitting.
>
> Total flight time about 1 hour.
>
> Bernie, hoping to fly to Lakeland
>
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