X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [66.219.56.245] (HELO mail.qnsi.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.4) with ESMTP id 5425247 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:17:48 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.219.56.245; envelope-from=bhughes@qnsi.net Received: from 10.0.0.5 ([10.0.0.5]) by qnsi-mail.qnsi.net ([10.0.0.5]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:17:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Getting closer to that first flight.. References: From: "Bobby J. Hughes" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail-7E6DB9A9-1A6C-4F49-BAB2-70D6B215A4FD"; charset="iso-8859-1" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <86F4F592-9968-41EF-B9F6-D51343D2377A@qnsi.net> thread-topic: [FlyRotary] Getting closer to that first flight.. thread-index: Acz4j+zc/uzXRooMRTaAaZUYRZEhIw== Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:17:06 -0600 To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (1.0) --Apple-Mail-7E6DB9A9-1A6C-4F49-BAB2-70D6B215A4FD Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sounds exciting to me. Have fun. Bobby.=20 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2012, at 8:54 PM, "shipchief@aol.com" wrote: > I know it's not all that exciting to some, but today I installed the tailw= heel chains and bled the brakes, then took that milestone, the first TAXI TE= ST!! > Although the throttle response was a little notchy, there were no stalls o= r trouble with RPM control. I had some lean spots and some rich ones too, bu= t nothing that prevented the engine from obeying throttle commands. > The RV-8 rolled along sweetly, steering and braking like a doll. > There are some funny harmonics in the airframe at some various low engine s= peeds, not suprising, considering the aircraft was intended to be powered by= a Lycoming. > I have a bunch of parts yet to install and adjust, but the pile keeps gett= ing smaller! --Apple-Mail-7E6DB9A9-1A6C-4F49-BAB2-70D6B215A4FD Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Sounds exciting to me.   Have fun.  Bobby. 

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On Mar 1, 2012, at 8:54 PM, "shipchief@aol.com" <shipchief@aol.com> wrote:

I know it's not all that exciting to some, but today I installed the tailwheel chains and bled the brakes, then took that milestone, the first TAXI TEST!!
Although the throttle response was a little notchy, there were no stalls or trouble with RPM control. I had some lean spots and some rich ones too, but nothing that prevented the engine from obeying throttle commands.
The RV-8 rolled along sweetly, steering and braking like a doll.
There are some funny harmonics in the airframe at some various low engine speeds, not suprising, considering the aircraft was intended to be powered by a Lycoming.
I have a bunch of parts yet to install and adjust, but the pile keeps getting smaller!
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