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From: "Steve Brooks" <steve@tsisp.com>
To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: First Flight Report - It Flies !
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 14:41:53 -0400
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Paul,
Thanks, and get to work.  We may outnumber the RV's some day.
It sounded like you are getting pretty close yourself.

Steve

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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On
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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 11:08 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: First Flight Report - It Flies !


Great news, Steve !!!  It's nice to see another rotary aircraft flying.
Thanks for the initial numbers on oil and water temps.  Please keep us all
posted as your flights get longer.  I am inspired, now....I'm going to work
on my rotary powered canard now.   Paul Conner

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Brooks" <steve@tsisp.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:46 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] First Flight Report - It Flies !


> This evening I made the first flight in Cozy N75CZ.  The plane got it's
sign
> off on Wednesday, and I spent that last few days tweaking various things,
> and doing the taxi testing.
>
> I made several high speed taxi tests today, and by the time I was ready,
the
> temperature was up to 93 degrees, and the density altitude was a plus 2000
> over MSL, so I decided to wait until evening.  I made the flight at about
> 8:00 PM EDT, and it was still 87 degrees, but at least the sun was
scorching
> down.
>
> There are certainly allot of emotions, and thoughts that go through your
> head when you push the throttle forward for that first flight.
>
> The flight was pretty uneventful with the exception of a few squawks.  I
> have a turbo charge Mazda rotary engine, and the temps were a little
higher
> than I had seen, and definitely higher than I like to see. The water got
up
> to about 220, and the oil was just about 208.  As a result, I didn't climb
> very high, and keep the flight short.  I only flew once around the
pattern.
> On the downwind, the temperature was on the decline, (210 & 190) and
> actually when I throttled back on final, they dropped off pretty quick.
(195
> / 180).  I'm yanking the thermostat out tomorrow morning, before the next
> flight
>
> I'm making my "official" first flight for family and friends tomorrow in
the
> morning.  I just didn't want to make a very first flight with a big
> audience.  The other things that went wrong were that the electric pitch
> trim didn't work.  I had tested it several times, but Murphy must has been
> riding co-pilot.  I tested when I got back on the ground, and it still
> wouldn't work.  .It seemed to be stuck, and would only make a ratcheting
> sound. I messed around with it, and got it working, but then it quit
again.
> I have some white grease on the threads, but I may have to use a light oil
> or something.  The third thing, and probably the most minor, is that I
have
> a little too much pitch on the prop.  Climb performance wasn't real good,
> and I was not turning the RPMs that I should have been, only about 5000.
I
> have a Ivo Prop quick adjust prop, so I'll crank it back a few degrees
> before the flight tomorrow.
>
> The plane few very smoothly, though pitch was an issue, since I couldn't
get
> it to trim.  I think that the pitch on the Cozy is more touchy than roll
> anyway.  Since I couldn't trim the pitch and didn't fly very long, I
really
> couldn't fly it hands off, but I didn't feel any roll tendencies, so
either
> I built the wings correct, or I messed them both up the same amount in
> opposite directions, because it seems to fly pretty straight.
>
> I pulled the cowling off went I got down to check and see if everything
was
> still screwed, clamped, nailed, and glued down still.  Everything looked
> fine.  Aside from keeping a wary eye on the temps, it was awesome.  I was
> way too focused on flying the plane, and keeping an eye on the airport to
> enjoy it too much, but when I was on the downwind, I was much more relaxed
> than I thought I would be.  I'm really looking forward to the next flight,
> which I plan on making a little longer.  I only flew .2 tonight, so maybe
> I'll do a whole 1/2 hour tomorrow.  Who knows.
>
> Steve Brooks
> Cozy MKIV N75CZ
> Turbo Rotary
>
>
>
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