The Eagle 540 Lancair IVP was issued its airworthiness certificate about a month ago and an A&P friend of mine is helping the owner sort out the last of the squawks prior to the first flight. There were some minor problems with the interface I had to create to allow the EC2 to utilize all of the existing engine hardware, but a very accomplished avionics guys has most of that sorted out... I heard them doing test runs across the ramp all day today. I'll let you know and post links to the videos when it finally takes to the skies. Thanks for asking.

   <Marv>

Posted for Kelly Troyer <keltro@att.net>:

By the way Marv what is status of the V8 powered Lancair
??................Always glad to hear from you.............

Kelly Troyer
"DYKE DELTA JD2" (Eventually)
"13B ROTARY"_ Engine
"RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2
"MISTRAL"_Backplate/Oil Manifold
"TURBONETICS"_TO4E50 Turbo

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From: "marv@lancair.net" <marv@lancair.net>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:24 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Glider rating: [FlyRotary] Re: The rotary may live.

I felt like I had to jump in here, you guys have touched upon something close
to my heart.... to my mind there are few experiences as exciting as gaining
alttitude without a noisemaker. The first time you center up in a +3000 fpm
thermal and pickup several thousand feet of altitude you're hooked... I know I
was.

    <Marv>

"Rino" <lacombr@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

  Ed,

  I do have two glider experiences (only a few minutes each) in my Glass Goose
so I know that it does glide without an engine.  After the engine stop, I
hear
the airflow (or wind) on the canopy, then I can easily imagine what it is to
be flying a glider.

  Rino Lacombe
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Ed Anderson
   To: Rotary motors in aircraft
   Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:51 AM
   Subject: [FlyRotary] Glider rating: [FlyRotary] Re: The rotary may live.


   Actually, Chrissi,  I did get one back in the early 1960s.  Never used it
(in a true glider) since, but it did convey flight was possible without an
engine and prop turning - which undoubtedly lessen the pucker factor a tiny
bit.

   Did I tell you about my glider check ride with aileron locks in?
Impressed
the heck out of the instructor who was on board and who told me no pre-flight
was necessary ( he was in a hurry to get back home)  and who gave me heck
about using too much rudder to get around the pattern (but, I couldn't get it
to turn without a lot of rudder).

   The scary part was later realizing that if I had ever let the wing get few
degrees too low, the rudder would never have brought it back to level!!

    Yes, after we landed (and me thinking I had flunked the ride) we saw
people
running down the runway waving arms and then pointing to the bright red
streamers on the locks did he and I realized how badly it could have turned
out - he had no problem signing me off {:>)

   So while not necessary - it keeps you legal {:>)

   While I don't recommend (in fact just the opposite) landing engine-out as
practice - a few hours in a glider is great preparation should that very rare
event ever happen {:>)

   Ed



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