Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:11:17 -0600
From: Perry Casson <pcasson@sasktel.net>
Subject: A good day flight testing
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Hi All,

The weather gods finally took some mercy on us today so I've finally got 
back to flight testing the Glastar/13B project.  With the engine now 
running quite well and all the tweaks after 1st flight completed we got 
back into the air today.  All I can say is wow!,  I'd recently spent a 
few hours in a 0-320 160HP powered Glastar and I must say even a lowly 
six port, stock-ported 88 13B is quite a step up from the Lyc.  1600 
ft/min climbs with two big guys on board puts us at circuit height 
before the end of the 6000' runway and I think a top speed in the upper 
160's mph will not be a problem (ok rv guys don't laugh but that's 
respectable in a glastar) .  The smoothness of the engine is just 
amazing it's almost like being in a sailplane.  I've still got a slight 
oil leak either from engine seal or the rear redrive seal and on climb 
my EGT are 70 degrees diff. other than that it was about as good as it 
gets for a airplane with 2 hours on it.
  
Keep building guy's it's well worth the effort.

Perry Casson
http://eaa154.dhs.org/perry