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

You are an inspiration to all us builders out there, thanks for your post,
I'll be there someday hopefully soon with my Cozy MK IV 13b Turbo. Good
luck to you and safe flying, congrats.
James Ealey

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