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Lenny Iszak
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partner14
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 Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject: RV-10 breaks record |
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Gotta love this plane... , I managed to get through some holes in the Chino CA weather and make it to Stellar Airpark, just ouside of Phoenix. Then left this morning and managed nonstop to Pecan Plantation SSW of Ft Worth. 749nm, 862sm, in 4.6 hours using 47.5 gallons of fuel... done without the normal favoring winds. Wife, Kim is driving a car, and is not real happy with me at this point! She'll arrive tomorrow afternoon... pretty tired I'm sure.
Don McDonald
Thanks Pascal for the transportation, and Jeff, thanks for the hangar, and send me you address information.
I guess if you do the math that works out to a little over 187mph average. Better that the guy in the article, and he had more miles to spread his climbout over.
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Kelly McMullen
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:39 pm Post subject: RV-10 breaks record |
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You planned this trip without spending this weekend at CopperState Fly-In???? Sacrilege!
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Don McDonald <building_partner(at)yahoo.com (building_partner(at)yahoo.com)> wrote:
| Quote: | Gotta love this plane... , I managed to get through some holes in the Chino CA weather and make it to Stellar Airpark, just ouside of Phoenix. Then left this morning and managed nonstop to Pecan Plantation SSW of Ft Worth. 749nm, 862sm, in 4.6 hours using 47.5 gallons of fuel... done without the normal favoring winds. Wife, Kim is driving a car, and is not real happy with me at this point! She'll arrive tomorrow afternoon... pretty tired I'm sure.
Don McDonald
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject: RV-10 breaks record |
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what kind of weather at Chino? Sounds like the lack of favorable winds might be due to being relaltive low altitude for the CA AZ part of the trip. What percent power was used for the Stellar FTW portion of the trip? LOP?
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partner14
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:25 pm Post subject: RV-10 breaks record |
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see below
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From: DLM <dlm46007(at)cox.net>
Subject: Re: Re: RV-10 breaks record
To: rv10-list(at)matronics.com
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 5:06 PM
what kind of weather at Chino? Total overcast/mist/rain. Pascal said that the day I left that night they had numerous thunderstorms and no holes the next day... just a vfr pilot at this time. Sounds like the lack of favorable winds might be due to being relaltive low altitude for the CA AZ part of the trip. Chino to Stellar was at 9.500'. Weather was fine, flight was fine.. just getting through the cloud layers at Chino was the problem. What percent power was used for the Stellar FTW portion of the trip? LOP? I flew the first part of this leg at 9500', then the remainder at 11,500 due to clouds. I usually fly at 2,000 to 2100 rpm, 20 to 21mp, and lop... it seems to depend on altitude, wind direction, and temperature.... I just try to get everything set at a combination that keep everything happy. Not so lop that the engine sputters, not too close to peak where the cht's climb. Sometimes, like today, it even means backing down the mp a bit.
If you ck the pics, wind at Sweetwater was 060 at 6kt, not favorable at all. The shot of the panel shows 2,080 rpm, alt 11,400, and mp pulled back about 1" worth. Sending the AFS efis back to upgrade this winter... then I'll have the oat, and tach working... then I'll actually have tas and wind info.
Don't know what percent power I was running at... but Kelley will figure it out for us.
Kelley, sorry for not getting over to Chandler... had some sailing friends that live right by Stellar...and I took them up for a short ride... sorry Pascal... one of these days! Stellar is really nice.. fuel $4.18, and $5 per night tiedown.
Don McDonald
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coop85(at)verizon.net
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:46 pm Post subject: RV-10 breaks record |
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“But build it he did, from a $200,000 kit. He put it together nights and weekends in his Huntington Beach garage. And once he built it, well, why not fly it as fast as he could?
The single-engine RV10 was finished in the summer of 2007. He has since set two world records: Long Beach to Dallas in 6 hours, 41 minutes and 52 seconds (183 mph) and Phoenix to Chicago in 7 hours, 2 minutes and 58 seconds (204 mph).
On his way home from the second record, somewhere over Kansas, ice began to freeze on his wings, growing heavier and heavier. The plane could snap into a spin at any second. He sent out a Mayday and was lucky enough to make it to a small runway, landing blind in a snowstorm. “
So did Van’s charge him extra for his kit? 
Marcus
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From: owner-rv10-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv10-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Pascal
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 6:39 PM
To: rv10-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: RV-10 breaks record
John is local to me. He is a great and driven person who has helped me with my RV-10 when I first got started.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/rost-271399-says-airplane.html
Pascal
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