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Hi all,

Well I have successfully flown my QB Sonex. I must admit, I do only have 6 mins total air time on the board so far, but that's ok for now. The Turbo engine, pardon the pun, really blew me away in terms of performance. I have 70 hours on the standard Aerovee in my other plane, but my word, what a difference the Turbo makes. It literally just jumped off the ground.

It is also sooo much less noisy in operation and I look forward to really seeing what this plane can do.

Thumbs up to a great plane :)


https://youtu.be/9bB5FF4EyD0

-Brett

Brett,
Your airplane looks great! Congratulations!

Congratulations Brett!


Robbie Culver
Sonex 1517
Chicagoland
N1517S

Congratulations!


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Congrats! Great paint!

One question: Why so short on the first flight? I'm coming from more of a lycoming background and this will be my first VW engine break-in. In lyc land they make a big deal (possibly too big?) about a strong preference for running the engine at 75% power for the first hour to ensure the rings seat. Is that less of a problem in VW land?

Congrats!

Congrats! I love the paint scheme as well!

Please let us know how the continued test flights progress. It's always great to hear about another "TurboVee" up flying!

This makes at least 7 customer turbo's flying!

Thanks all :)

It was a short flight unfortunately as I had the mixture on the Aerocarb set too lean. I made a quick low level circuit and landed. I adjusted up the carb and was about to fly again however during the mag check discovered 2 cylinders miss firing on the primary. Extensive tests later revealed a non operational primary coil pack. I will need to replace it prior to more test flights. A bit bummed but that's aviation.

I still can't believe how well the turbos go though ;)

Congratulations Brett, well done.
Very nice Plane, I like the colour scheme.

Cheers, Peter
Sonex 19-8464, Aerovee 2.1
Hrs flown 106.
South Australia.

Well done Brett!
Another Aussie Sonex takes to the skies :-)