chuck(at)spaur.com
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 Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject: RV-10 Flight Report |
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Hi,
John Stewart was kind enough to give a fellow builder a ride in his RV-10. Here are my impressions of the plane and the flight. Wow, is it a wonderful machine.
Chuck Spaur
RV-6 N184CB 496 hours
RV-10 (QB wings)
RV-10 Flight Report
Saturday was a beautiful day in Eastern Colorado. The usual suspects gathered at FTG near Denver and we headed for Goodland, KS for some breakfast. On the way home we decided to stop at Burlington, Colorado and look in on John Stewart and his Lindy Award winning RV-10. We had visited Burlington a couple times during the construction of this airplane but had not been there since it’s been flying.
Our 4-ship squadron of RV-6’s and -6A’s rolled in and of course we immediately started admiring the workmanship on the -10. Somehow it came out (I’m really not sure how) that I’d never ridden in a -10, and with my -10 tail-cone finished and QB wings well underway it might be a great opportunity. John said he just needed an excuse to fly and that was plenty.
We quickly situated our “little RV’s” to allow the big -10 room to roll by on the taxiway. A couple of us jumped in with John and got ready to go. The first thing I noticed of course was all the room, and then the visibility. The seat position and large windows allow great visibility both forward and to the side. (RV-6 pilots are not used to seeing that well in front of the wings). Strapped in and ready to go John fired up the big fuel-injected Lycoming. This is the smoothest running aircraft engine I’ve seen. And the airplane is remarkably quiet. We taxied out, ran it up and in about 700 feet we were airborne. The fuel tanks were pretty full and we were in Colorado with 3 souls on board, so that performance is the familiar RV quality.
The flying qualities of this -10 are everything RV flyers have come to expect. The airplane is smooth, quiet and does just what you tell it to do. Not to anyone’s surprise there was a good breeze from the Southwest blowing across the runway at Burlington. Crosswind handling is very nice in the -10 with the solid low-speed control authority, and where the -6’s had been cross-controlled pretty good to manage it, the -10 made it look easy. This is an example of an RV-10 that few of us will match, but it’s good to have someone set a high standard for us builders. Thanks for the ride John.
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