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 Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:28 am Post subject: First (Four) Flights!! |
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Hello All Kitfox Lovers,
I'm proud to report that another Series 5 is now flying (as of Saturday 23
Dec)!
My apologies for not reporting sooner, but I've been pretty obsessed with
flying it every day since. The tach is now reading 6.9 hrs!! The wind &
rain are keeping me on the ground today so I have a chance to catch up on
communications.
In a nutshell everything went well (even though I was extremely nervous &
prepared to die) with only a couple of bleeps. First sustained full power
burning of the exhaust system (presumably) caused a 'smoke' trail on take
off which caused a little concern in the tower. Also a slight power loss at
about 900' AGL was cause for great concern, but some manipulation of the
throttle & mixture controls cleared it up. After my heart rate came down &
I had ~5,000' of altitude, I mostly ran the engine (at) 75+% power & paid
attention to the gauges. I did a very light stall before descending to a
not pretty but still in one piece landing. What a feeling! Thanks for the
help & encouragement of everyone on this list.
As I'm still in the process of seating the rings on my rebuilt Lycoming I've
mostly been running the engine hard, closely monitoring the gauges & purely
loving life & flying too. So I don't have any hard numbers to report other
than to say that my plane seems to be behaving about as I'd hoped and about
as reported by others with the same engine. I'll plan to post some
performance numbers once I've done a lot more flight testing.
Again, thanks a million for the help, enouragement & organization of this
list - It is a great service! Extra thanks to John McBean & Bruce Lina.
Grant Krueger
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Fox5flyer
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| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: First (Four) Flights!! |
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Whaaaaahoooooo! Another one takes to the air. Congrats Grant. Now the
real fun begins.
Deke
NE MI
42f, sunny, calm
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Float Flyr
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland
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| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:55 am Post subject: First (Four) Flights!! |
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That blip in the engine could have been, amongst other things, carb icing...
The AMO I used to work for always recommended using pure mineral oil for the
first 50 Hr. to seat the valves and rings. When you change it you will
appreciate that it works..... It will be as black as tar!
Congratulations. Sounds like you have a real keeper there!
Noel
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| Quote: | slight power loss at
about 900' AGL was cause for great concern, but some
manipulation of the
throttle & mixture controls cleared it up. After my heart
rate came down
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| Quote: | As I'm still in the process of seating the rings on my
rebuilt Lycoming I've
mostly been running the engine hard, closely monitoring the
gauges & purely
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dave
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| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:16 am Post subject: First (Four) Flights!! |
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Congrats Grant ! What a way to ring in the new year a few days early !!.
Dave
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Guy Buchanan
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
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Location: Ramona, CA
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| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:42 pm Post subject: First (Four) Flights!! |
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At 08:27 AM 12/27/2006, you wrote:
| Quote: | I'm proud to report that another Series 5 is now flying (as of
Saturday 23 Dec)!
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Congratulations Grant! It sounds like an exciting first flight.
Guy Buchanan
K-IV/1200 w/ 582 C-box & Warp 3 blade
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