I had the same experience with a Lyc 0320 on the initial flight in an RV-4.

The problem was idle mixture control.

On the ground it was fine but in the air with 100 mph ram air it leaned out
until the engiine quit.

I/2 turn on the idle mixture solved the problem.

Hank

 
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