Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net> (Marvin Kaye)
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 01:49:17 -0400
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From: "Marshall Michaelian" <mmichaelian@comcast.net>
Subject: Flight Test of Lancair Turbine
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For those of you who are already past the flight test phase of your
experimental turbine would you mind sharing with us the data you collected.
Here are some of the more pertinent areas of interest.

1.  Did you perform stalls or did you stop at buffet before the stall?

2.  If you did a complete stall give the conditions (flight and aircraft;
e.g.. 15,000 ft and forward cg, power on/off, etc).

3.  Have you experienced any stability and control problems?

4.  Have you experienced any flutter?  Obviously not of the catastrophic
type, but vibration nevertheless.

5.  During all of the flight test hours and thereafter have you noticed any
cracks or delaminations on any surface?

6.  My understanding is that Lancair is not recommending adding to the
leading edge of the vertical stab even though they did it to the Sentry.
Has anyone found it necessary to add vertical surface?

7.  What was your determined best rate/angle of climb speed?

8.  Finally, do you have any suggestions for a safe test flight program or
if you had to do it over again, anything you would have done differently?


Thanks in advance for filling in the blanks.

Marshall Michaelian