Having "finished" my plane and signed off in January, I've been tinkering
with minor improvements, engine tuning, and building up my own flying
currency ever since.  Just about the time all of that came together the
infamous Pacific Northwest weather socked us in and it looked like it would
be weeks, months, yea even years before I could do my first flight in N31CZ.
Well we got a temporary reprieve and today was the day! At about 8:45AM PDT,
N31CZ defied the laws of physics and actually left the hard but comfortable
surface of our planet!

The Mazda Rotary, 13B (non-turbo) engine worked fine. Not great, but fine.
Temps were in the mid-170's for both oil and water the whole time. (Outside
air temp was 35F-40F). But power was a little anemic, so I'll still have
some tuning to explore.

ADD ME TO THE FLYING Rotary LIST!!

Regards,
Joe Hull
Cozy Mk-IV #991 (In Phase1 Flight Test - 0.4 hrs flown!!)
Redmond (Seattle), Washington

Congratulations Joe. Got any pictures of the installation?
We are always on the look out for pictures.
For example what does your cooling system look like?

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

  Good job,  I hope to see it at Arlington.
 Ken Welter


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