The damn thing actually flies! We put about five hours on it today. For about the next 25-30 hours we're going to be getting the engine broken in correctly. We basically have to run it between 75-85% of full power while watching the cylinder head and exhaust gas temperatures to insure that the rings seat in correctly. Once the oil consumption begins to stabilize that's when we'll know that the rings have seated. Not many pictures of this momentous occasion because I was actually busy flying and paying attention to the engine gauges. Maybe when we get to setting up the autopilot I can take some more pictures.
View outside over the nose during a climb. Notice the glareshield that goes on top of the panel is missing. We'll add that later.
View of the panel-We're at a little over 3500' in this shot. Notice the big hole in the middle of the panel-that is where the back-up attitude indicator goes-we had to send it back to the manufacturer to get replaced-the first one was "toast".
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