Lots of big events in the past week!
#1: I got married!
#2: First startup of my Turbo Aerovee!
#3: First taxi test!
We had a bunch of folks who were in town for our wedding out to the airport on Sunday for a Hangar Party. The main event was firing up the engine and performing a taxi/brake test. It was awesome to be able to hit this milestone in front of a crowd like that, won't soon forget it!
Here's a video of the 2 tests:
https://youtu.be/HNZTuFreZvIFirst observations: secondary ignition timing is way off, engine wouldn't run without primary. Primary mags aren't grounding correctly for some reason, I cannot turn off the magnetrons. I used a 2.5 needle in the default position in the aeroinjector and the engine is running way rich, had to pull the mixture halfway out to get it to run. Good times!