Hi Bill, I am glad to hear that you are flying. Have you got it painted yet? Looking forward to you coming over to Grenada in it. That should be about a 20 minute flight for you. Congradulations and now I am goint to have to get busy. Wayne Williams--Grenada, MS> ----- Original Message ----- From: "countryhomeprint" <countryhomepr...@bellsouth.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 8:36 PM Subject: KR> 1st official flight
> Krnetters, > Today N880AB had its first official flight. It only took 14 years. > Lift-off was uneventful, climbed to 2500 feet at an airspeed of 110 mph > indicated at full power. Leveled off, power back to 2800 rpm with an > indicated airspeed of 140 mph. Had good control reponse and the engine ran > perfectly. I run a 2180 cc Volkswagen with a Sterba 54 x 54 prop. Did not > do a stall, however slowed to 60 mph with no indication of stall. Empty > weight is 635 lbs. with Dan Diehl wing skins. Decent to pattern was 160 > mph., approach at 100 mph, over-the-fence at 80 to a near perfect wheel > landing. Tomorrow the speeds will be checked with a GPS, weather > permitting. > > I plan to have 880AB at the gathering in September. I will keep you posted > as to 880AB's progress during the 40 hour fly-off. > > Bill Page > boliverp...@bellsouth.net > _______________________________________ > 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 > >
