May 9 2022
Below are a couple of videos of my first rolling movement under power.
Vision prototype photo
This is the Vision prototype designed/built by Steve Rahm in USA. and still being supported by Pro Composites Ltd. in USA. The aircraft is a 2 seat side by side, scratch built from a series of manuals. Built entirely of fiberglass and carbon cloth material the builder needs to know or learn some of the easy basics of composite construction. Building began Feb. 1998 in my spare time with 7 years where no building was possible. Building Hours at February 28, 2022: 4248.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Some short videos of flights are at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfxJXIwvmfNlNF3gwplFw7Q
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
First Engine Run
May 4 2022
Still making progress towards getting my final inspection completed this spring. I picked my registration letters that I wanted and made up the data plate and mounted it into the VISION. The Canadian Registration for my airplane is now completed with Transport Canada and I have the C of R in hand with registration C-GVVI. On May 4th I made the first run up of the totally re-built Lycoming engine and it started up right away. This I could not be more pleased about as I had replaced the original carburetor and installed a Australian Throttle Body "Rotec" unit. I only ran the engine for about 3 minutes to make sure oil pressure, fuel pressure and instruments were all functioning. A few days later I ran the engine again this time to see it get warmed up and then did a very short taxi test to test the brakes and the steering. It went perfect and total time on the engine was about 15 minutes. Then a few days later I tied down the tail to a fence post, chalked the wheels and did the Lycoming recommended run up to full power. Five minutes at 1000 then 10 minutes at 1400 to get the engine oil to warm up to 120-140. Then to 1800 RPM and cycle the propeller three times then full power for a maximum of 10 seconds followed by a cool down for about 3 minutes and another full power test for 10 seconds and then cool down and full power a last time. Such a pleasure to see the engine get maximum RPM of 2700 on each of the full power tests.
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