Status Brantel #72823
Congrats Brian, what a great day this must have been. Can't wait to see the grin!
Mike Bullock
http://www.rvplane.com
RV-7 | Superior IO-360 | Whirlwind 200RV
Garmin GTN650 | GRT Dual Sport SX EFIS
Status: FLYING!
http://www.rvplane.com
RV-7 | Superior IO-360 | Whirlwind 200RV
Garmin GTN650 | GRT Dual Sport SX EFIS
Status: FLYING!
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Spike
- Chief Rivet Banger
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DUDE, THAT ROCKS!!!
i want to hear all about it.
i want to hear all about it.
http://www.rivetbangers.com - Now integrating web and mail!
Current Build: 2 years into a beautiful little girl
Current Build: 2 years into a beautiful little girl
Way to go Brian! To steal a quote from another forum,
Congratulations, and Well Done!!!!
Congratulations, and Well Done!!!!
Jeff Orear
RV6A N782P
Hatz Classic, Welding fuselage
Hatz build log. https://eaabuilderslog.org/?blproject&p ... GNCwv&sid=
Peshtigo, WI
RV6A N782P
Hatz Classic, Welding fuselage
Hatz build log. https://eaabuilderslog.org/?blproject&p ... GNCwv&sid=
Peshtigo, WI
Pics
More to come once I can gather the best pics from the different cameras...video later...
Flight went well. There was an issue with front baffles behind the spinner. I had left them too long and they were vibrating against the screws that goes on the inner inlets. That cut the first flight a little short because I did not know what the noise was.
The airplane flew great. Straight and true!
Can you believe that I called it a Cessna on announcing the takeoff?? I quickly corrected myself! It is a wonder that it did not die right there on the runway after that incident!
The second flight tonight was even shorter as I just took off and landed. The floor was vibrating and it scared me a little bit but now I understand that vibrating foot wells on an RV are sort of normal. I am double checking everything out to make sure.
Many thanks to all who have helped in some way on this project. Special thanks to Bob Dougherty, Tim McGinnis and my uncle Al for all their help! Thank my wife for hanging in there and tolerating this dream and thanks most of all to God for allowing me the privilege!
First Takeoff:
First Landing:
The RV grin!!!:
Flight went well. There was an issue with front baffles behind the spinner. I had left them too long and they were vibrating against the screws that goes on the inner inlets. That cut the first flight a little short because I did not know what the noise was.
The airplane flew great. Straight and true!
Can you believe that I called it a Cessna on announcing the takeoff?? I quickly corrected myself! It is a wonder that it did not die right there on the runway after that incident!
The second flight tonight was even shorter as I just took off and landed. The floor was vibrating and it scared me a little bit but now I understand that vibrating foot wells on an RV are sort of normal. I am double checking everything out to make sure.
Many thanks to all who have helped in some way on this project. Special thanks to Bob Dougherty, Tim McGinnis and my uncle Al for all their help! Thank my wife for hanging in there and tolerating this dream and thanks most of all to God for allowing me the privilege!
First Takeoff:
First Landing:
The RV grin!!!:
Last edited by Brantel on Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:25 am, edited 2 times in total.
Brantel (Brian Chesteen),
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
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aparchment
- Class C
- Posts: 522
- Joined: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:43 pm
Con-freakin-gratulations!!! Time to change your RB signature...
Way to go, Brian!
Time to change your RB signature...Way to go, Brian!
Dave Setser
Avionics, Firewall Forward
http://www.mightyrv.com
Putting the "slow" in slow-build since 2004
Avionics, Firewall Forward
http://www.mightyrv.com
Putting the "slow" in slow-build since 2004
More details!
The day was perfect, Sunny and light and variable winds in the morning. I arrived at around 8AM for some last minute items to go over. A fresh BFR endorsment in my logbook performed an RV7 made me confident in my ability to at least keep the airplane in one piece.
I finished buttoning up the cowl by installing the bottom hinge pins and then it was an hour or two of waiting until my wife and close family arrived at the airport.
A friend of mine that I wanted to be on the ground manning the radio and looking for oil smoke, fuel streaming, or parts departing the airplane was asked to go on a short hop over to another airport to look at a RV8 that a local is looking at purchasing. So I waited till he returned to go for it.
Once he was back, I was ready.. The waiting and staring at the airplane had me anxious.
I took a few deep breaths, kissed the wife and huged the family. Had prayer and jumped in. The emotions were on overdrive as I was buckling up.....
Getting set:
On the taxi out, several of the hangar rats were sitting on the front row of the hangars just waiting for the show to begin... I waved and taxied to the runnup area.
Taxi out:
At the runnup area, I went over my checklist at least 10 times. Ran up the engine, mags, etc. A few seconds of full power to make sure it was going to run strong.
I announced my intentions as "Cessna ---oh, hahahaha, Correction, Experimental N159SB intending to take off on runway 23 and this is the first flight of this airplane and if I were you, I would give it a wide berth!!!"
The takeoff was awesome!!! The airplane steered straight with no issues. As you can see from the pic below, these things have awesome performance. I am a fat man and even with full fuel, this thing was well off way before the 1000ft marker. I was not trying at all for a short takeoff roll and I was still about 20ft high before the marker.
1st Takeoff:
The flight was going well, the climbout did heat up the engine. The climb produced CHT's on a couple just over 400° so I lowered the nose and powered back a little and the temps came down to around 365-375. During circling the field, the oil temp was around 182° and the EGT's around 1300-1325 and the CHT's around 365-375. It is a new rebuild so I wanted to run it hard.
I started noticing a strange high freq sound and it was different depending on if I was turning or how fast I was going. I decided I needed to figure out what that was so I cut the flight short and came on in.
The landing was not bad at all. I was way high on final and had the flaps all out so I decided to slip it all the way down. The flare and landing were just like the plane I did my BFR in so all was well. A little hop of the mains and some bouncing of the tail but acceptable. I did have about 7 knots of quartering crosswind to deal with as well.
1st Landing:
The following needs no words to describe!!!!
The RV Grin!!!:
The noise seems to have originated from the front baffles behind the spinner. I left them too long and they were vibrating against the ends of the screws that go in the front inboard inlets of the cowl.
I cut those off and the second flight did not have this noise. Time will tell if I got that issue resolved.
I finished buttoning up the cowl by installing the bottom hinge pins and then it was an hour or two of waiting until my wife and close family arrived at the airport.
A friend of mine that I wanted to be on the ground manning the radio and looking for oil smoke, fuel streaming, or parts departing the airplane was asked to go on a short hop over to another airport to look at a RV8 that a local is looking at purchasing. So I waited till he returned to go for it.
Once he was back, I was ready.. The waiting and staring at the airplane had me anxious.
I took a few deep breaths, kissed the wife and huged the family. Had prayer and jumped in. The emotions were on overdrive as I was buckling up.....
Getting set:
On the taxi out, several of the hangar rats were sitting on the front row of the hangars just waiting for the show to begin... I waved and taxied to the runnup area.
Taxi out:
At the runnup area, I went over my checklist at least 10 times. Ran up the engine, mags, etc. A few seconds of full power to make sure it was going to run strong.
I announced my intentions as "Cessna ---oh, hahahaha, Correction, Experimental N159SB intending to take off on runway 23 and this is the first flight of this airplane and if I were you, I would give it a wide berth!!!"
The takeoff was awesome!!! The airplane steered straight with no issues. As you can see from the pic below, these things have awesome performance. I am a fat man and even with full fuel, this thing was well off way before the 1000ft marker. I was not trying at all for a short takeoff roll and I was still about 20ft high before the marker.
1st Takeoff:
The flight was going well, the climbout did heat up the engine. The climb produced CHT's on a couple just over 400° so I lowered the nose and powered back a little and the temps came down to around 365-375. During circling the field, the oil temp was around 182° and the EGT's around 1300-1325 and the CHT's around 365-375. It is a new rebuild so I wanted to run it hard.
I started noticing a strange high freq sound and it was different depending on if I was turning or how fast I was going. I decided I needed to figure out what that was so I cut the flight short and came on in.
The landing was not bad at all. I was way high on final and had the flaps all out so I decided to slip it all the way down. The flare and landing were just like the plane I did my BFR in so all was well. A little hop of the mains and some bouncing of the tail but acceptable. I did have about 7 knots of quartering crosswind to deal with as well.
1st Landing:
The following needs no words to describe!!!!
The RV Grin!!!:
The noise seems to have originated from the front baffles behind the spinner. I left them too long and they were vibrating against the ends of the screws that go in the front inboard inlets of the cowl.
I cut those off and the second flight did not have this noise. Time will tell if I got that issue resolved.
Brantel (Brian Chesteen),
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
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Bob Barrett
- Class C
- Posts: 625
- Joined: Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:37 pm
- Location: Sartell MN
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good going! Look forward to the pictures!
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Cherokee Driver
- Class E
- Posts: 144
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- Location: Waukesha, Wisconsin
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What a great day...great photos...great story. 
CONGRATULATIONS.
Very exciting stuff. You should also be congratulated on your excellent decision making as you were flying on a most emotional flight and dealt with the minor squaks with perfect form.
Here is to your success.
Looking forward to more details/photos and video. Very inspirational.
CD
CONGRATULATIONS.
Very exciting stuff. You should also be congratulated on your excellent decision making as you were flying on a most emotional flight and dealt with the minor squaks with perfect form.
Here is to your success.
Looking forward to more details/photos and video. Very inspirational.
CD
RV-8A
Wing Kit (Slow Build...very slow build)
Home of "Skunk Works, Wisconsin Branch"
"Glacial Pace...but lovin every minute of it!"
Wing Kit (Slow Build...very slow build)
Home of "Skunk Works, Wisconsin Branch"
"Glacial Pace...but lovin every minute of it!"
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Spike
- Chief Rivet Banger
- Posts: 4013
- Joined: Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:40 pm
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Most excellent dude. Great photos!
http://www.rivetbangers.com - Now integrating web and mail!
Current Build: 2 years into a beautiful little girl
Current Build: 2 years into a beautiful little girl
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joe plihal
- Class G
- Posts: 33
- Joined: Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:35 pm
What GREAT news Brian! Congratulations 
I too must comment on how you waited for everything and everybody (including yourself) to be ready for this historic flight, good decision making makes better pilots.
Bet that grin doesn't go away for a while. It might have been a long time coming, but I'm willing to bet that doesn't matter to you now, it was worth the wait.
I too must comment on how you waited for everything and everybody (including yourself) to be ready for this historic flight, good decision making makes better pilots.
Bet that grin doesn't go away for a while. It might have been a long time coming, but I'm willing to bet that doesn't matter to you now, it was worth the wait.
Don Sinclair
CYKF
RV-7A (Fuselage)
CYKF
RV-7A (Fuselage)
Not as much as I would like...
Early on the weather did not cooperate with my schedule.
Some of the delay is the fact that I am taking it easy on breaking myself into crosswinds since I am but a pup with a TD.
I also had some delay while trying to solve my IAS issues.
Sort of lost a couple days opportunity while I was installing my new Aera 510, AP servos and hardwiring up the Zaon.
The first few hours were fly some then take the cowl off and inspect, fly some and take the cowl off and inspect. Eats up time!!
I say all of this to let you know I only have 23 hours so far.... I have really tried to focus on testing this puppy instead of just burning gas and boring holes in the sky...
Early on the weather did not cooperate with my schedule.
Some of the delay is the fact that I am taking it easy on breaking myself into crosswinds since I am but a pup with a TD.
I also had some delay while trying to solve my IAS issues.
Sort of lost a couple days opportunity while I was installing my new Aera 510, AP servos and hardwiring up the Zaon.
The first few hours were fly some then take the cowl off and inspect, fly some and take the cowl off and inspect. Eats up time!!
I say all of this to let you know I only have 23 hours so far.... I have really tried to focus on testing this puppy instead of just burning gas and boring holes in the sky...
Brantel (Brian Chesteen),
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
RV12-IS, #121606, N912BC - Building Now!
RV10, #41942, N????? - Project Sold
RV-7/TU, #72823, N159SB - SOLD
