It’s now been two weeks since our first flight. We now have 8 flights and 5.3 hours on the airplane. The temperatures and oil consumption have stabilized, so I think the engine is pretty much broken in. The erratic RPM …
Thanks to Chad Hankins (RV-7) for letting me borrow his GoPro Hero HD camera. I mounted it to the door strut attachment bolt on the right door, which worked okay. Here’s a video of the takeoff and landing. …
There were a few things that needed fixing after the first flight:
- Idle mixture was still to rich
- One of the oil cooler fittings was leaking a little (I really dislike tapered pipe fittings on airplanes)
- Prop governor needed to
After three years, six months, and one week, our RV-10 finally had its first flight on Saturday! Rob took off from runway 34L at Paine Field, climbed to 3000 feet, circled the airport for 15 minutes, then landed uneventfully. Despite …
Paine Field, 1 p.m. Thursday.
After getting the inspection done, we needed to reinstall all the cover panels, the interior, seats and cowl. That took much longer than I’d thought. Then I noticed the nosewheel valve stem had been damaged …