Over the last few weeks I have focused on cooling mods. This time I
followed the advice from Paul Lamar's book "How to Cool Your Wankle" more
honestly and put the oil and coolant heat exchangers under the engine and a
bit into the airstream for solid ram air.

 Today I repeated the long taxi for high speed taxi test 3. Outside temp was
96 degrees. Temps down Hotel stayed around 165 degrees to Alpha. I had to
wait for a Grauman to take off. Ran the engine up a bit to verify mixture.
By the time I called the tower to take the active coolant temps had gotten
to about 185.

 I took a breath and smoothly added power and started my run down the center
line. Speed came in as I brought power to just over 5000 RPM. I reached 60
knots really  quickly. (posted rotation speed range). I retarded the power a
bit to maintain 60 ish knots took a mental breath....and raised the nose.
The nose actually lifted  Holy crap....that is almost flight. I brought back
power and the nose settled (uh, by settled, I mean bounced ;-)).

 Ok. While really cool to me, the coolest part was when I noticed that when
I checked the coolant temp just as the nose was down, the coolant temp had
DROPPED to the high 170's. A drop. Imagine that!!!

 I pulled off at Charlie and taxied back to my hangar with the temps around.
185. They just hit 190 before I shut down. Again, it is in the mid 90's
today.

 I don't know about y'all, but this has been a pretty good day off so far.

 Thanks for your support.

 Chris Barber
 Houston KEFD
 Velocity SE/FG
 Rotary 13b turbo w/Mistral Intake
 RWS PSRU/EC2/EM2
 Dynon SkyView SV-7


Hey congratulations Chris! Big event, first flight will be on your mind now until it
happens and then still on your mind for months after!
Tim Andres


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