salem oregon sparrowhawk update

[ptope]

it has to be "in view of ocupants while entering the aircraft. We have ours located each side of the overhead console..if you look on page 2 of this post there is a picture that shows where we put it..

 

[ptope]

Dropped off the paperwork, construction logs, applications and photos at the FAA office in Hillsboro today per the FAA inspectors request.. if everything checks out then he is going to try to schedule an inspection with in 2 weeks..

 

[Rotor-Head]

Nice looking machine..... I'll have to come up and see you guys soon....

 

[ptope]

Inspection is Feb 16th.. We did some taxi tests today, with full rotor run up.. at about 20 mph... it wanted to take off, nose wheel got very light.. it ran like a champ..temps all good, no leaks....

 

[StanFoster]

Sounds good....cant wait to see it in the air.


Stan

 

[ptope]

Passed inspection today.. it will go up for its maiden voyage this monday....YIPPEE>>>

 

[StanFoster]

congratulations....


Stan

 

[Gary_in_Orygun]

I don't want to take the thunder from Pat, but since I'm sitting at the computer I'll post this picture I took of Dave O. flying Pat and Nick's machine at Independence this afternoon.

Hopefully, Pat will get on here and tell all the exciting news.

Well, Pat was too tired yesterday to post anything, but told me to go ahead and post some of my air-to-air shots. I followed Dave O. around the sky during his first flight out of the pattern and took some pictures and compared altimeter and airspeed readings in flight.

 

[ptope]

Thanks Gary for all those photos.. it was very cool to be able to get some in air shots of the first flight.. Dave Overman, CFI from Seattle came down to fly off our first few hours. He did an excelent job, and is an excelent instructor and an asset to the Gyro / Aviation community. He did some high speed taxi tests first to get the feel of the machine then he came back and we did a preflight, zip tied a couple of things, then he did a crow hop, the machine really wanted to go with that 2.5 suburu. He had to back way off the power to get it to come back down. I think the machine was tired if sittinng around. he brought it back and we did another preflight, then he did a pattern, played with the electric trim, brought it back in for another preflght to make sure everything was still in order, then he took it out for a couple of hours (not all at once) doing manouvers over some local fields. We were graced With Garys fly in, in his RAF 2000. Gary flollowed Dave around for the first hour checking things from the air and taking some really cool pictures.. Time now to fly of the remaining 40 hours and send in for our exemption to do training.. I also got some video that i took, that i will be adding to the website in the near future...

 

[StanFoster]

Patrick: Its nice to see another hawk leave the nest. Congratulations on such a fine build. Hats off to you. Mine is looking out the nest and ruffling its feathers.....

Stan