Great day to be a RV'r

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:28 pm

Some of you may know I've been having issues with Aurora. I had the engine quit on final last week and stumble badly while taxiing. I was afraid to leave the pattern. I work alot this time of year so getting time to work on the plane was an issue. But I managed to get her running very well. My idle mixture was out of whack(very rich) which in turn caused me to have the idle speed cranked way down but masked by the rich mixture.....Worked while everything was winter, but not as we reached normal OATs. Anyway chased that problem and a few calls to AirFlow Performance and also Bill R helped me with my Pmag questions. Still had some troubles and ripped the floor out...found a not torqued fitting on the fuel filter, we suspect it was sucking air occasionally compounding my other issues.

I have a lot planned and needed the plane to do them. The Big Sky Air Racehttp://bigskyairrace.org/BSAR/Welcome.html is coming up and we had a TV commercial to shoot today. So this morning up at 5am and to the hangar to finish putting her together. She ran better than ever as we flew to HLN..we were early!
RobertAllen Nissan is one of the sponsor of our race and offered to fund a shoot, so here is a Need for Speed staging pics for the video. Next we did some low passes. I have a face for radio so I'm not in any shots...that's ok, Aurora was a star!

Tomorrow We're heading to Wenatchee WA for the Great North West Air
Rally. LIFE is Good

Post by **Spike** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:07 am

Kewl!

dons · Post by **dons** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:22 am

Great news that you got the engine issue sorted out! As a tv character used to say "I love it when a plan comes together". Good luck with the rally(s).

Bob Barrett · Post by **Bob Barrett** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:41 pm

We are cheering for you Brian. I hope you win the race by a mile. Also glad that you got your engine issues sorted out. There are usually some small nagging problems. I installed my outside air temp sensor in the NACA fresh air inlet duct. I also had the wrong oil sensor for my engine. It took a while to get those little bugs sorted out. I also purchased $100 alternator from Airzonia, which went South before the 25 hours were up. I replaced that and got the oil temp sensor and that changed that. Finally in the Spring of 2010 we moved the OAT sensor to the bottom of the right wing tip and now my OAT is relatively accurate. In January 2010 outside temp was about 20 degrees F but the OAT was showing 62 degrees F. Clearly engine heat was getting to the sensor.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:30 am

We gotta see that video man!!

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:09 am

Here's the edited version. I thought they would have more fly by footage(we did 5 passes) and wished it said something about SportAir Racing League. But it came out ok. Robert Allen Nissan paid for the video work andTV time on 4 stations so they get the approval rights.

Click on the pic for a video link:

lancef53 · Post by **lancef53** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 8:47 pm

Very cool!!

Post by **Spike** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:52 am

That is awesome. The little boy was adorable!!

John

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:33 am

The speaker was Kevin, one of the co-host for the race. He flys a LongEZ and that was his 4yr old son Austin. Kevin's nickname is "Hollywood" he loves the spotlight. also goes by "MayDay" from declaring an emergency when his gear stayed down and locked one day in a Mooney and when he accidently locked himself inside that Mooney.

At our meeting this weekend, I found out that Commericial cost $15000 to produce and air on 4 stations.

...I only burn 8gals of Avgas, so it wasn't me.

Just got back from doing 3 radio interviews promoting the race also.....only airs once but cost $0.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:54 pm

That is very cool Brian! I thought they did a nice job on it!

dons · Post by **dons** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:24 pm

It was well done Brian, and your flyby in a tv spot is something to remember.

Bob Barrett · Post by **Bob Barrett** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:42 pm

Brian I really enjoyed your fly by and the ad. I had trouble opening it here but it may have been operator error or it could have been the humid weather here. Again it was great!