Starts and blows!

Finally figured out that you need fuel, air, and spark to get these things to run. It helps if you also cinch down the oil temp probe...

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• pietenpol
• experimental
• aircraft
• flying
• Lenora
• airport
• EAA

[jeffboatright]

Yep, good thing Wayne saw the leak. But, that's why you run 'em up on the ground first!

[archerrobinhood]

what hp engine?

[jeffboatright]

C-85

[chueffer]

My favourite place for blowing up the motor - on the ground.

[leif01001]

i dont get it

[jrcadet4]

Ground tests before first-flights are our friends.

[FlierDude77]

i know it says "experimental" on the side, but i was wondering if it was your own design or if now, what kind of plane it is...it looks kinda like a pietenpol aircamper to me, but then again i could be totally wrong...

[ButchNackley]

Sometimes the smallest details catch you out. I once primed an oil pump, only to discover I had not installed the oil pressure sending unit. Good I found it via using a priming tool on a drill rather than during the engines first startup. Anyway, I know how easy it is to overlook something.

[clockguy2]

Don't forget compression! ...fuel, spark, and compression. air is usually a given. 

[ushouldntjudgeme]

Nice Pete!

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

@PCpartyMDM, it don't take a lot of fuel unlike the turbine jet engines that consumes more than 27 gallons of fuel per hour, especially the turbine on commericals airlines, at idle 4 gallons of fuel per minute consumed of idling time, more than 300 gallons of fuel during flight, but they travel more than 600 MPH in the air, now think about the concordes, they have 4 engines using kerosene fuel, and burns at least 6771 gallons of fuel per hour from 17 tanks carrying 31,569 gallons

[birddoggarton]

Im guessing 15 gallons and at about 15 or 20 miles per gallon.

Cheaper than a Boating hobby.

thats why I do it. Plus there's not a crowd up there. I Love It.

[PCpartyMDM]

how much fuel do those engines take?