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05-01-2010, 12:50 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Louisville, Ga
Posts: 7,840
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First RV-10 entered in a race and....
...Top time of day!!
Man, this -10 is fast. I ran 29.2" and slightly less than 2700 revs for 45 minutes and some seconds...blew away an RV-8A,-6, -7 and Todd's LS 1 Chevy powered -10.
The Dynon showed 210-214 TAS for the entire 5 leg race and at times, 240 MPH GS....all this despite having to circle down through a hole to VFR below...a minute and a half down the drain.
CHT's stayed at 380 and oil went from its usual 190 to 202 and stabilized there. It's an Aerosport IO-540, basically stock with a Lightspeed ignition on the left.
Lee Logan will publish final results a little later,
Best,
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Pierre Smith
RV-10, 510 TT
RV6A (Sojourner) 180 HP, Catto 3 Bl (502Hrs), gone...and already missed
Air Tractor AT 502B PT 6-15 Sold
Air Tractor 402 PT-6-20 Sold
EAA Flight Advisor/CFI/Tech Counselor
Louisville, Ga
It's never skill or craftsmanship that completes airplanes, it's the will to do so,
Patrick Kenny, EAA 275132
Dues gladly paid!
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05-01-2010, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Townsend, Montana
Posts: 3,179
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Way To Go! Pierre
must be the Montana heritage. 
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Retired Dam guy. Life is good.
Brian, N155BKsold but bought back.
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05-01-2010, 01:06 PM
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Senior Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,408
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Congrats.
Sounds like fun.
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Mike Starkey
VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010 
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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05-01-2010, 01:42 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Louisville, Ga
Posts: 7,840
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Yep...must be..
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Originally Posted by hydroguy2
Way To Go! Pierre
must be the Montana heritage. |
Wow! Small world....do you know Tom, Terry and the guys who built her? This airplane is hands-off dead-on after a little rudder trim tweaking and aileron rigging to specs. Build 'em straight, rigged dead-on and man, they'll run!
Best,
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Pierre Smith
RV-10, 510 TT
RV6A (Sojourner) 180 HP, Catto 3 Bl (502Hrs), gone...and already missed
Air Tractor AT 502B PT 6-15 Sold
Air Tractor 402 PT-6-20 Sold
EAA Flight Advisor/CFI/Tech Counselor
Louisville, Ga
It's never skill or craftsmanship that completes airplanes, it's the will to do so,
Patrick Kenny, EAA 275132
Dues gladly paid!
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05-01-2010, 02:57 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Savannah, GA
Posts: 1,849
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The RV-10's went 1-2 in quickest to complete the course.
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Todd
N110TD
RV-10 Vesta V8 LS2/BMA EFIS/One formerly flying at 3J1 Hobbs stopped at 150 hours
Savannah, GA and Ridgeland, SC
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05-01-2010, 03:44 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Posts: 2,647
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pierre smith
...blew away an RV-8A,-6, -7 and Todd's LS 1 Chevy powered -10.
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Man, talk about mixed feelings. Chevy ... Van's. Oh, wait, the Chevy was a Van's.
Congrats, Pierre.
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Patrick Kelley - Flagstaff, AZ
RV-6A N156PK - Flying too much to paint
RV-10 14MX(reserved) - Fuselage on gear
http://www.mykitlog.com/flion/
EAA Technical Counselor #5357
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05-01-2010, 05:06 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 5,685
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Well maybe not the first RV-10 to enter a race
In 2006 Debbie Dewey & James Erskine flew her RV-10 in the 2006 AirVenture Cup race in the Sport FX Class. It was a head wind race. This RV-10 averaged 203.31 mph. That year Jon Ross and John Huft got just over 210 mph in their SUPER FAST RV-8s. SARL ( www.sportairrace.org) has created a new RV-Gold Class this year that accepts RV-10s with the 540s and other RVs with up to the 390s.
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05-01-2010, 08:44 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Townsend, Montana
Posts: 3,179
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Originally Posted by pierre smith
......Wow! Small world....do you know Tom, Terry and the guys who built her? T....Best,
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Nope, never met those guys. But I'm new to this game. Sounds like they do good work, congrats to you.
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Retired Dam guy. Life is good.
Brian, N155BKsold but bought back.
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05-01-2010, 10:21 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Missoula, MT
Posts: 714
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Montana RV-10
I met Tom and talked to one of the other builders. I sent Pierre a PM with a pic of his bird on the beach at Flathead Lake two springs ago. I flew in to the beach party as a student pilot with my instructor and this yellow plane makes a high speed low pass over the landing area. I'd never heard of an RV, certainly not an RV-10 but I was impressed. Now I'm building one. I went and looked at Pierre's plane a year ago or so as I was thinking about building.
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Bryan Douglass
=VAF= 2020 dues paid
RV-10 N242BD
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05-02-2010, 12:26 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: WA State
Posts: 192
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Quote:
Originally Posted by douglassmt
I sent Pierre a PM with a pic of his bird on the beach at Flathead Lake two springs ago.
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I have been to Flathead Lake a few times, but didn't know that you could land a plane on one of the beaches. Or maybe there's another way that an RV-10 can be "on the beach"...just curious!
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Will McClain
N954WM (Reserved)
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