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 Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject: First Flight |
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Zenith 601 XL / Corvair N4ZK made it's maiden voyage tonight. It has a standard recipe William Wynne conversion, and performance is excellent. Climbout is strong and handling easy. I have no performance numbers to share yet, as I was more concerned at this early stage with just monitoring critical temps and airspeed. EGT and CHT were well below the max indicators I placed on the guage faces, but oil temp did keep creeping up, and required me to throttle back to arrest the trend after a while. This plane is fast and smooth, and my single landing so far was easy. High idle speed carried me a ways down the runway, and that will be addressed in time. It seemed to take quite a bit of elevator trim to bring the nose up and remove the pressure from the stick. It's possible I'll need to adjust the elevator angle a bit, but too soon to say. It's currently 1 deg. down. A very nice handling plane, and I'm looking forward to burning off some of those pesky Phase one hours. I'll share more as I gather performance data and tweak things if needed. Keep building !!
Lynn Dingfelder
601 XL / Corvair Corry, PA. ding(at)tbscc.com (ding(at)tbscc.com)
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject: First Flight |
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difelder my man! i think we met at Russ's place at ZPH. COngrats
JUan
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TxDave
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject: Re: First Flight |
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Congrats Lynn. Thanks for sharing your triumph with the group. I look forward to hearing more reports.
Dave Clay
Temple, TX
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sdthatcher
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
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Location: Port Saint Lucie
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:26 am Post subject: Re: First Flight |
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Congratulations Lynn! That first flight has to go down as one of the most heart pounding, adrenaline rushing experiences ever... unless you do test flights for a living  That heaviness seems to be fairly common as mine is also very heavy, yet well within the CG. I talked to Scott L. awhile back and he said his stabilizer was down in front and up in back and now flies hands-off. I'm looking forward to that day, although he does have about 30 lbs back in the baggage area as well. Again congratulations.
Scott Thatcher
N601EL w/Corvair E-LSA
16 hours and climbing
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Gig Giacona
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:29 am Post subject: Re: First Flight |
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Congratulations!!!
At what temp did you oil temp peak and which of WW's oil cooling systems do you have? The remote or the newer on the engine version.
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n801bh(at)netzero.com
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:34 am Post subject: First Flight |
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Congrats to you...
Fly safe.
do not archive
Ben Haas
N801BH
www.haaspowerair.com
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Zenith 601 XL / Corvair N4ZK made it's maiden voyage tonight. It has a standard recipe William Wynne conversion, and performance is excellent. Climbout is strong and handling easy. I have no performance numbers to share yet, as I was more concerned at this early stage with just monitoring critical temps and airspeed. EGT and CHT were well below the max indicators I placed on the guage faces, but oil temp did keep creeping up, and required me to throttle back to arrest the trend after a while. This plane is fast and smooth, and my single landing so far was easy. High idle speed carried me a ways down the runway, and that will be addressed in time. It seemed to take quite a bit of elevator trim to bring the nose up and remove the pressure from the stick. It's possible I'll need to adjust the elevator angle a bit, but too soon to say. It's currently 1 deg. down. A very nice handling plane, and I'm looking forward to burning off some of those pesky Phase one hours. I'll share more as I gather performance data and tweak things if needed. Keep building !!
Lynn Dingfelder
601 XL / Corvair Corry, PA. ding(at)tbscc.com (ding(at)tbscc.com)
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leinad
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject: Re: First Flight |
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Lynn,
Congrats! I love it when I hear about another Corvair powered Zodiac making it to the skys.
Dan Dempsey
601XL Plans Builder/Corvair
[quote="ding(at)tbscc.com"]Zenith 601 XL / Corvair N4ZK made it's maiden voyage tonight. .....
Lynn Dingfelder
601 XL / Corvair Corry, PA. ding(at)tbscc.com (ding(at)tbscc.com)
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