REFLECTOR: 20B runs on the plane

[John & Mary Wright]

We always enjoy/appreciate and learn from  your posts---what a great 
milestone for you 8-) .  Congratulations !!  There will be many 
more---As many "sages" have said  This is one of many and continuous 
"tweeks" and a much better time to find a misfunction than on the first 
flight ???!!! :-\
John and Mary

Al Gietzen wrote:

> Ah-h-h; at last the smell of fuel and exhaust instead of epoxy.  One 
> milestone in an airplane building project like this is running the 
> engine on the plane for the first time.  I was able to do that today.  
> It was successful; and quite short.
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> The reason for its brevity was the loss of use of the engine monitor. 
>  This happened before the run - the display was dead the second time I 
> turned it on for reasons yet to be determined.  After some checks, and 
> a couple of phone calls, it was agreed there were no further checks I 
> could effectively do, so it is removed and packed for shipment back to 
> the supplier.
>
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> I chose to proceed with a brief run anyway just to see that everything 
> needed for engine operation was functional.  As most of you know, I 
> had previously run the engine on the dynamometer.  The engine fired 
> off promptly and ran just above idle just long enough for oil and 
> coolant to flow and get detectably warm.  After checking everything 
> out, there were no leaks, and I knew oil was flowing by the slight 
> warmth of the filters and cooler.  I fired it up again, adjusted 
> mixture a bit, ran for a bit, added a bit of throttle a couple of 
> times, and shutdown.  This time I could also verify warm coolant flow 
> throughout the system, and all air bled out of both radiators.  Very nice.
>
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> Disappointed there will be no more runs until I have a functional 
> engine monitoring system - delighted that everything else was just *fine!*
>
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> How does it sound? POWERFULL! (OK, noisy).  How does it feel?  Smooth!
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> Al
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