Charles R Harris wrote:

Jerry Is that a slip of the finger ??? 245mph....I know the tailwind
is a
very
clean airplane BUT that seems pretty fast...Chas down in Mississippi

Not at all.  There is nothing wrong with the instrumentation either.
His numbers are consistently backed up by the GPS. That is a nice,
clean Tailwind with a little more h.p. than most have been running.  I
have been in it, but not at 245.  We flew along at 225  and had plenty
of throttle left.  I can't remember the rpm.  The Tailwind has SMALL
control surfaces that are counter balanced.  That should make flutter
less likely but we are all concerned as the speeds keep increasing.
The main worry is that the windshield might fail.        Jerry

 
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