Congratulations!!
John
Everything looks
pretty nominal for your set up. Do you have an thermostat in you cooling
system or not? The reason I ask
Is while 190F if
fine, but if you are current producing 135-145HP and put a 2.5:1 on it and end
up producing 200 HP then your may find
Your temps are going
to go over 190F. Now if you have a thermostat holding it at that temp,
then it may be that you do have sufficient capacity for more HP.
200HP in a
tailwind? Boy, you are going to blow most things in the sky
away.
Again, welcome to the
rotary fly club
Ed
From:
Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of John
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:39
AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Fw: [TailwindForum]
First Flight
This is where the numbers ended up
this morning.
----- Original Message -----
Sent:
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:21 AM
Subject:
[TailwindForum] First Flight
First off a GREAT BIG THANKS!! to
all the Tailwind drivers who took me for flights and let me handle the
controls. This morning the conditions were near perfect, so a moment of
solitude with the maker, I climbed in and said, self this is the moment
of truth. First flight in a Tailwind was with Brian Alley at Urbana, 2001, and
my much younger mind which absorbed the pattern and final approach like a
sponge and even today it was like it happened yesterday. Malcolm and
BobD in different flights, gave me lots of pointers, there was a joke at one
time that I had more time in Tailwinds than some of the
owners.
I do need a 2.5 to 1 redrive, as
the engine needs to turn faster to develop the hp. I need to get the
engine up to 6200 rpm to develop over 200 hp, but for now I'm really
happy. It is very stable, controls are very sensitive compared to the
Colt. With 4 notches of flaps the approach was too hot at 85, but on the
uphill grass runway the roll out was about 500
feet
oil
temp
190 I think my muffler is blocking the cowl outlet to some
extent
I will be sawing half the brake
pedals off, as it is too hard to taxi with the rudder with out riding the
brakes. It doesn't want to lift off well with the wheels sliding down
the runway.
The Tailwind Forum
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