GREAT!!!! Joachim
> [Original Message] > From: Joseph H. Horton <joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com> > To: <corvaircr...@mylist.net>; <kr...@mylist.net> > Date: 11/19/2005 7:58:52 PM > Subject: KR> another flight > > Guys, > Another pretty good day. I preheated the engine and was in the > air at 7am. The temp on the ground was 22 deg. I preheated to 60 and the > temps rose steady from there. The climb out was good and strong and I was > at 2000 feet soon after turning cross wind and continued to climb to 3000 > ft. I headed South for about 15 mile sand was cruising at 145 to 150 mph. > I went to over fly a couple of our construction sites and see if everyone > but me showed up for work. This gave me the opportunity to do some steep > turns and the KR cut some of the nicest 60 deg. bank turns I have ever > done. I did some roll reversing also and these were all done at 140 mph. > I headed back to the North and started to build a little more speed up. I > have been pretty careful not to get to fast. Today I flew for awhile at > 160 to 165 mph. This was about 2900 rpm. I still had some throttle to go > yet. I then started a cruise climb test from 2000 ft . to 5500 ft. I > forgot to time it but at 130 indicated I set up a steady 800ft./min > climb. While this was going on I started to learn the leaning out of the > corvair. I had noticed last week that the right side was getting the > bottom of the plane black. The exhaust temps were about 1125 when I > started to lean and I was amazed at how accurate of a control I had over > the temps. I was able to lean to 1350 deg. i could raise or lower the > exhaust temps at will at probably 10 to 15 deg. increments. The head > temps stay in the 375 deg range with the exception of the # 6 cylinder > head which went to 405 deg. I turned to head back home and started a slow > decent from 18 miles out. The temps dropped and worry me a little how low > they got. Shock cooling could be an issue some time. The head temps > dropped down into the 250 deg range.. The engine is running the smoothest > that it has ever been. The only major thing that I changed was to rotate > the prop 180 deg. on the prop hub. If it had been this smooth from the > start I might not have thought much about vibration. > The one thing that I will take a while to get used to is getting > everywhere at 60 mph faster than I am used to. I can only fly a few > minutes in almost any direction until an airspace of some kind pops up on > the GPS. Then I have to take some kind of action of course change or > altitude. > The max. speed that i got to today was 173 for a short time which > I bleed of for altitude to slow back to 160. The First time that the > engine has give any sputter of any kins was also today. I may have cause > some messing around with mixture, but just in case I gave it just a > little bit of carb heat and it seemed to like that and there was no > further complaints. > It wasn't long until I was back in pattern and slowed to 100 > mph. This is where I confess my latest sins. Last week end I started > looking at my flap system because I did not think that it was working to > it's potential. They are split flaps as shown on one of Mark Langford's > pages. I was getting to much slop in them and did not remember it that > way when they were built. I started at the flap linkage to the control > horn on the flap and quickly discovered that the castle nuts on both was > loose and not cotter pin installed. I corrected that and then removed the > seat to check the torque tube. Here I found that the bolt holding the > handle to the torque tube was pretty loose and the U shaped clamp that > holds the handle assembly to the torque tube was also loose. All this has > most likely been this way sense last spring when I had it painted. I find > it hard to believe that I or anyone else did not find this sooner but it > is fixed now. > I put in the first notch of flap on base and it does enough to > notice but nothing dramatic. On finial I dropped the rest and the decent > rate increased and the speed bleed off much better. I was just above 70 > mph over the numbers and she settled down to a wonderfully soft touch > down and a shorter roll out. After departing the run way and I started to > clean up for taxi back to the hanger I noticed that I was only in the 2nd > notch of flaps. So it appears that I will have plenty of drag to slow me > down. The 2nd notch landing today worked better than they had before in > the 3rd notch which is about another 20 deg down. > I think that I can safely say today was more on the fun side of > flying than work. I'm happy to actually call it a YEEEEE HAAAAA day. > > Joe Horton, Coopersburg, PA. > joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
