June 9, 2002 - A trailer pulled up in front of a simple but comfortable
 home in Houston.

 Lots of trails, tribulations blood, time, money, recreation, education,
 fun,
 friendships, anger, frustration, problem solving, sweat, pondering
 etc....repeat and
 repeat again and again.

 Fast forward (it did go fast)

 June 9, 2012<x-apple-data-detectors://1 - Ellington Field - A lone, very
 nervous man
 arrives at the airport shortly before 0900 hrs. Pushes onto the ramp the
 contraption
 composed of fiberglass, metal et al and the ingredients listed above. He
 sits down
 and writes a simple holographic (hand written) will and short note with
 information
 to call "Mom" and work. Calls tower to relay intent via the phone.

 Preflights the contraption. Gets in, goes though basic Checklist. Cranks
 up the
 engine, which fires right up at about 0920 hrs. Taxi to Juliet. Calls
 tower to verify
 intent and to taxi to active, 35L. Taxis to Taxiway Echo. Checks temps.
 Pushing 195
 with OAT reading 95 degrees (geesh it is only about 0930 hrs).

 Cleared to take active and hold. Taxied out. Lined up castering nose wheel
 down
 center stripe. Cleared to take off. Added power and engine smoothly ran
 up. Airspeed
 coming in. 30 kts...50 kts ....60 kts, approximate rotation speed. Lots of
 runway
 (9000 ft).....hold it....70 kts....72 kts... Slight pull on the
 yoke....AIRBORNE!!!
 Leaped into ground effect. Screw this, pulled back on yoke and I am
 climbing. Jiggled
 the yoke a bit to verify control authority.

 Climbed to about 400 feet and turned right pattern to crosswind. The Dynon
 altitude
 and airspeed seem to be working. That's reassuring. Pattern altitude is
 only 600 feet
 and I was there already as I turned to downwind. Leveled off and noticed
 the clouds
 were lower than reported and appeared on the ground. Also, noticed coolant
 temps had
 dropped to 190....but oil temps were flashing at me and had reached 225
 (synthetic
 Royal Purple). Damn. Ok. Fly the airplane, the oil is not at not a
 critical level. ,
 but let's just finish the pattern and land. I grabbed my phone while on
 downwind and
 attempted to record some data but while I can hear the engine the video is
 awful....uh, in my defense, I was a bit distracted and way more concerned
 with
 flying. I called the tower and informed them I was coming in. I think they
 were
 looking out for me since as I turned to base I noticed the fire department
 staged
 just off the runways threshold

 I noted I was a bit far out on down wind so I stared easing over to turn
 base. Wow. I
 really overshot it as I blew by the runway and had to use full right
 rudder to get
 back to the runway. I wish I had had more rudder. In hindsight I think I
 was not
 using much aileron as I was cognoscente that I had no idea of stall
 characteristics
 so I did not yet wish too strep a turn. I was able to get over the runway
 and dump
 some altitude as I got over the numbers and pulled power. Crap, I am fast.
 I am lined
 up and right on the numbers but at 95 kts. I come and touchdown and
 bounced. Pulled
 power to idles and settled down easily but fast at 90 and rolled out and
 exited at
 Delta. The tower was clearing me back to the city hangars as I was exiting
 the
 active. I taxi back and noticed the oil temps had decreased but I don't
 recall how
 much, just noticed they were lower.

 I got back to my hangar and popped the door and shut her down. The engine
 went silent
 without any hissing or gushing.

 I called my mom.

 I am mowing informing the world.

 I did a walk around and did not see anything missing. I am about to pull
 the cowl and
 check things out.

 I did notice I did not develop a slight hand shaking until after I landed
 and exited
 the aircraft. ;-) Hey, how about that, it really is an aircraft now. Ten
 years to the
 day following delivery.

 Thank you for your support.

 Christopher Barber, JD
 Houston, Ellington Field (EFD)
 Velocity N17010
 Turbo Rotary 13b
 RWS Re-drive and engine computers
 Dynon Skyview
 Mistral intake

 You made me laugh Chris :)

 Congratulations. You are almost there on the oil cooling.

Paul Lamar


Congratulations on a job well done!

Kevin Alderman

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