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9GT 05-21-2014 03:07 PM

Absolutely gorgeous Charlie!

majuro15 05-21-2014 08:12 PM

Beautiful job, been following it on your blog. Glad the flight went well too!

Jackm 05-21-2014 09:49 PM

Congrats
 
Mark,

looks great!

CharlieWaffles 05-21-2014 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AX-O (Post 881677)
is this where you got the idea?


It is indeed! We thought it could be tweaked and improved in a number of ways. I think we wound up with a scheme that compliments the RV10 very nicely.

CharlieWaffles 05-22-2014 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jchang10 (Post 881644)
Mark, what kind of cruise performance numbers are you getting with the new wide chord Hartzell prop? I wonder how much of a difference it makes. There was recently an article in one of the aviation magazines that talked about the reasoning behind the wide chords. It was an interesting read.

I flew a ton yesterday and I am finding I am a few knots faster than before paint - mostly because of improve body work under the paint. At 75% power, 6000' I am seeing about 178 Knots on average.

Here is a shot while at 72% power, so a little lower on power and a couple of knots slower:


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