Original Posted By: "Gene & Tammy"
It was a cool, overcast day at the airport but perfectly flyable. I decided toretorque the prop bolts on my airplane (16 ft.-lbs on my wood Hegy) and thentake it up to make sure everything was airworthy as well as jot down some performancenumbers that I haven't bothered to make note of before.After the engine started warming up, I did a normal runup and then checked staticRPM. A couple of different attempts got the same result: 2300 RPM on the tach.With the information I had gotten by checking my mechanical tach againsta digital one, I know that this is an actual RPM of about 2100. Not sure ifthat is good or bad, but that's what my A65 turns in 55 degree weather at 1040'MSL with the Hegy prop.I made three takeoffs and full-stop landings to see what the indicated airspeedswere for when the tail came off the ground and when the airplane left the runway.Tail seems to start up at about 25 MPH indicated, and shortly after thatthe airplane is light on the mains and floats off at maybe 30-35 but it's acceleratingpretty rapidly once it comes up on the mains so it's hard to tell.Also, I was down to maybe 1/3 tank of fuel up front but I'll bet with full fuelthe tail comes up much sooner.Just some points on the performance chart.Oscar ZunigaNX41CCSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________