Congratulations John.  Glad to hear that at least one of us is flying. Maybe between the two of us, we can keep at least one rotary Cozy up and flying. <g>

I expect to be back flying by the weekend.  When I went back and really looked at the plane, the damage was not bad at all.  The stainless steel foot on the front strut took the brunt of it, and I have another one on the way.  Work is light this week also, so I'm working on the plane tomorrow, and probably half of Wednesday.  Right now, my worst issue is finding a hockey puck.  For some reason they aren't real popular in South Carolina. 

I know that I saved the other half of the first one I sawed in two, but I have not yet been able to find it.  I looked in all of the logical places.  I guess the illogical places are next.

Glad you didn't have any problems.

P.S. don't forget to put your gear down.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On Behalf Of John Slade
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:42 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] N96PM flies again

Just to P Steve off, I'm happy to report that I flew my 8th flight of 1.1 hrs this morning.

Incredibly, I have little to report. The engine never faltered, except once when I did a test of the no fuel scenario by switching off one pump before switching on the other. Duh!

As usual, there's a full report at http://canardaviation.com/cozy/chap29.htm but it might be fairly boring reading, what with no engine failures and precautionary landings etc. etc.

Regards,

John (I'm starting to LIKE flying my Mazda rotary)