X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mail-pz0-f202.google.com ([209.85.222.202] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3c2) with ESMTP id 3973709 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:18:42 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.85.222.202; envelope-from=wdleonard@gmail.com Received: by pzk40 with SMTP id 40so1610040pzk.7 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:18:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=P70eBtseZvyqKr67pvufi2YKniNw8FtNMdU14niL2yY=; b=mKVvsl3INk18H+RyYU9BBIYhfty3qDSKom7vFLhSK2XsdWclM4YjxeDZSUGtLFs0LG Ry8JkB/Q1BtZdzsEzyXGLq/99kY8bZg5nO1vXS8S64G+hlP4oJTErHrVxKSPkyYGzHyt mVvw+6+rGJmpZgnDTPWH64pvryMC94J5+CFrY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=ORyRilhGvd+5uZiu/rU7jATlNtkN8oUFDqMSr3gknOGvxDN6R1djxdrCWqNJxVa0VY Y1N2hN/NNVUmAHl7Z8DOCUMhHZQw1M94ohv5eUAM+IX9ouDFoV6j7ZaEuSbyXQP013l5 LcwWfeJmQWFjf3vLQW2ZN1X1oVAKn7M2thFLc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.61.37 with SMTP id j37mr347796wfa.35.1258049887657; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:18:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:18:07 -0800 Message-ID: <1c23473f0911121018o3178fem65f75c4708b70459@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] flight report From: David Leonard To: Rotary motors in aircraft Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636e0aef2a9de2904783090c7 --001636e0aef2a9de2904783090c7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hey Mike, Are you planning on flying this weekend? If so, maybe I will come down. Dave On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Mike Wills wrote: > Not much to say but since Chris is begging for something to read.... > > Had my first flight away from the immediate vicinity of my home airport > today. I've been hesitant to leave because I'm surrounded by a lot of mostly > unlandable mountains and desert. But the airplane has been flying well for > the past few hours with nothing to do after each flight but look things over > - nothing to fix. > > So I ventured out over the mountains to Borrego some 50 miles away. Nothing > really to report. Everything worked fine and the airplane seems to be > performing well. It still seems to be matching the performance of my old > 160HP RV-6A (though if the EFISM can be trusted, the fuel burn is a little > higher). And at some point I think there is more performance to be had since > I still think I'm giving up some HP and have some excess cooling. But those > are things to address in the future. For now I'm just going to fly it. > > So add another 1.3 hours to the total. 13 hours in the book, 27 more to go. > > Mike Wills > RV-4 N144MW > -- David Leonard Turbo Rotary RV-6 N4VY http://N4VY.RotaryRoster.net http://RotaryRoster.net --001636e0aef2a9de2904783090c7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey Mike,
Are you planning on flying this weekend?=A0 If so, maybe I wil= l come down.

Dave

On Wed, Nov 11, = 2009 at 8:53 PM, Mike Wills <rv-4mike@cox.net> wrote:
Not much to say but since Chris is beg= ging for=20 something to read....
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Had my first flight away from the imme= diate=20 vicinity of my home airport today. I've been hesitant to leave because = I'm=20 surrounded by a lot of mostly unlandable mountains and desert. But the airp= lane=20 has been flying well for the past few hours with nothing to do after each f= light=20 but look things over - nothing to fix.
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So I ventured out over the mountains t= o Borrego=20 some 50 miles away. Nothing really to report. Everything worked fine and th= e=20 airplane seems to be performing well. It still seems to be matching the=20 performance of my old 160HP RV-6A (though if the EFISM can be trusted, the = fuel=20 burn is a little higher). And at some point I think there is more performan= ce to=20 be had since I still think I'm giving up some HP and have some excess c= ooling.=20 But those are things to address in the future. For now I'm just going t= o fly=20 it.=A0
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So add another 1.3 hours to the total.= 13 hours in=20 the book, 27 more to go.
=A0
Mike Wills
RV-4 N144MW



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David Leonard

Tu= rbo Rotary RV-6 N4VY
http://N4V= Y.RotaryRoster.net
http://Rotary= Roster.net
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