REFLECTOR: N151AJ first flight

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> From: Jeff Barnes <jcbarnes411 at sbcglobal.net>
>To: Velocity Reflector <reflector at tvbf.org> 
>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 9:37 AM
>Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: N151AJ first flight
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> From:  Andrew Ellzey <ajlz72756 at yahoo.com>; 
>To:  Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>; 
>Subject:  REFLECTOR: N151AJ first flight 
>Sent:  Thu, Jul 25, 2013 5:46:23 AM 
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>N151AJ, Velocity XLRG made its first flight late this afternoon at 7:50 pm 
at ROG, Rogers Arkansas airport. I was pilot in command for this first flight 
which lasted 1/2 hour. My aircraft flew quite well, my flight controls were very 
light, any adverse movement came from me not the aircraft. Once I lightened up 
on the control inputs, it flew like a dream. I climbed to 1000 AGL and stayed in 
the pattern for several circles around the airport, watching all engine 
indications for any problems, and just getting use to the light flight controls. 
I opted to leave the gear down for this entire flight, didn’t want a gear up 
landing on my first flight. I really had to fight the temptation to pick them 
up. My #5 CHT bumped redline, which I have set to 450F, (Lycoming IO-540 
operators manual states 500F MAX) once or twice, early on after takeoff. I was 
however able to lower the nose and cool it down pretty quick. After this initial 
redline it seemed to fall in line with the other cylinders, maybe 20 degrees 
higher than the others. I have two oil coolers in series, one in the front, 
standard Velocity nose NACA scoop, and one in the rear. I had already completed 
two high speed taxi test about 40 minutes earlier, so everything was already 
warmed up, before I even taxied to the end of the runway, oil temp was already 
about 230F before I started my take off roll. My Oil temperature quickly cooled 
down to 210 degrees and stayed there through the whole flight.  I did a go 
around on my first landing attempt, a last minute gust at the end of the runway 
pushed me off to the  left side of centerline,  in about a 15 deg. 
crab. I probably could have saved the landing, but elected to do a go around to 
try it again. Second time was a charm, touching down on both mains straight down 
the runway, I even held the nose off for a light touchdown. Yea it surprised me 
also. I forgot to save the flight data on my BM EFIS One, so my memory will have 
to do for this first flight. I had my wife video this first flight, but either 
my camera, and or her unsteady hands make some of them too bad to share. This 
link should allow everyone to view the takeoff and landing.
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> http://www.seagateshare.com/share/seagatedasbackup/share/velocity-man/N151AJ%20Velocity%20Reflector%20share/
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