X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from hub026-NJ-2.exch026.serverdata.net ([206.225.166.165] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.5) with ESMTPS id 5594639 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:47:45 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=206.225.166.165; envelope-from=jwhaley@datacast.com Received: from MBX026-E1-NJ-6.exch026.domain.local ([10.240.14.56]) by HUB026-NJ-2.exch026.domain.local ([10.240.14.33]) with mapi id 14.02.0309.002; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:47:09 -0700 From: Jeff Whaley To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' Subject: Re: First flight - Velocity N17010 Thread-Topic: First flight - Velocity N17010 Thread-Index: AQHNSJEYMcK5hFUYQkOWCO+tDVXW5Q== Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:47:08 +0000 Message-ID: <234B758DE9A64449BEB6BB5D1345CA7AF4CFA3@mbx026-e1-nj-6.exch026.domain.local> References: Accept-Language: en-CA, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [209.87.232.162] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Hey Chris, I'm a bit late out of the gate but Congratulations ... great fee= ling isn't it. Pretty soon you'll be able to join the $100 coffee and donut ... I mean ham= burger crowd. Good luck going forward and keep posting your progress. Jeff From: Chris Barber Subject: First flight - Velocity N17010 Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 16:52:33 +0000 To: "flyrotary@lancaironline.net" June 9, 2002 - A trailer pulled up in front of a simple but comfortable hom= e in Houston. Lots of trails, tribulations blood, time, money, recreation, education, fun= , friendships, anger, frustration, problem solving, sweat, pondering etc...= .repeat and repeat again and again. Fast forward (it did go fast) June 9, 2012 - Ellington Field - A lone, very nervous man arrives at the ai= rport shortly before 0900 hrs. Pushes onto the ramp the contraption compose= d of fiberglass, metal et al and the ingredients listed above. He sits down= and writes a simple holographic (hand written) will and short note with in= formation to call "Mom" and work. Calls tower to relay intent via the phone= . Preflights the contraption. Gets in, goes though basic Checklist. Cranks up= the engine, which fires right up at about 0920 hrs. Taxi to Juliet. Calls = tower to verify intent and to taxi to active, 35L. Taxis to Taxiway Echo. C= hecks temps. Pushing 195 with OAT reading 95 degrees (geesh it is only abou= t 0930 hrs). Cleared to take active and hold. Taxied out. Lined up castering nose wheel = down center stripe. Cleared to take off. Added power and engine smoothly ra= n up. Airspeed coming in. 30 kts...50 kts ....60 kts, approximate rotation = speed. Lots of runway (9000 ft).....hold it....70 kts....72 kts... Slight p= ull on the yoke....AIRBORNE!!! Leaped into ground effect. Screw this, pulle= d back on yoke and I am climbing. Jiggled the yoke a bit to verify control = authority. Climbed to about 400 feet and turned right pattern to crosswind. The Dynon = altitude and airspeed seem to be working. That's reassuring. Pattern altitu= de is only 600 feet and I was there already as I turned to downwind. Levele= d off and noticed the clouds were lower than reported and appeared on the g= round. Also, noticed coolant temps had dropped to 190....but oil temps were= flashing at me and had reached 225 (synthetic Royal Purple). Damn. Ok. Fly= the airplane, the oil is not at not a critical level. , but let's just fin= ish the pattern and land. I grabbed my phone while on downwind and attempte= d to record some data but while I can hear the engine the video is awful..= ..uh, in my defense, I was a bit distracted and way more concerned with fly= ing. I called the tower and informed them I was coming in. I think they wer= e looking out for me since as I turned to base I noticed the fire departmen= t staged just off the runways threshold I noted I was a bit far out on down wind so I stared easing over to turn ba= se. Wow. I really overshot it as I blew by the runway and had to use full r= ight rudder to get back to the runway. I wish I had had more rudder. In hin= dsight I think I was not using much aileron as I was cognoscente that I had= no idea of stall characteristics so I did not yet wish too strep a turn. I= was able to get over the runway and dump some altitude as I got over the n= umbers and pulled power. Crap, I am fast. I am lined up and right on the nu= mbers but at 95 kts. I come and touchdown and bounced. Pulled power to idle= s and settled down easily but fast at 90 and rolled out and exited at Delta= . The tower was clearing me back to the city hangars as I was exiting the a= ctive. I taxi back and noticed the oil temps had decreased but I don't reca= ll how much, just noticed they were lower. I got back to my hangar and popped the door and shut her down. The engine w= ent silent without any hissing or gushing. I called my mom. I am mowing informing the world. I did a walk around and did not see anything missing. I am about to pull th= e cowl and check things out. I did notice I did not develop a slight hand shaking untill after I landed = and exited the aircraft. ;-) Hey, how about that, it really is an aircraft = now. Ten years to the day following delivery. Thank you for your support. Christopher Barber, JD Houston, Ellington Field (EFD) Velocity N17010 Turbo Rotary 13b RWS Re-drive and engine computers Dynon Skyview Mistral intake This message, and the documents attached hereto, is intended only for the a= ddressee and may contain privileged or confidential information. Any unauth= orized disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message= in error, please notify us immediately so that we may correct our internal= records. Please then delete the original message. Thank you.