[Wing] First Flight

[Ken Hoshowski]

This is to let you know that another RV9A shed its nest today in Salmon
Arm.  The airplane is owned by Don Champion (dcac06 at jetstream.net .  The
airplane is equipped with an Aerosport 160 hp 0-320 with one lightspeed
ignition and one mag and a Sensenich prop.
The test pilot was Chuck Ross.  All systems worked as they should.  Only
snag is a stuck float ( we think the float may have a leak in it) in the
left wing.  The airplane performed extremely well, I flew chase and had
a hard time catching it.  At one point at 6000 feet level flight my true
airspeed was reading 180 and GPS groundspeed was 184.  Our
congratulations to Don.
 
Ken Hoshowski
Salmon Arm B.C.
C-FKEH   RV6 160hp/constant speed
 
P.S. Doug Pearce is waiting for his flight permit for his RV6A so we
should have another flying within the week.