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Onex #138 first flight

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Onex #138 first flight

Postby Onex 9138 » Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:12 pm

Hi all,

Just thought I would let you know that Onex #138 completed it's maiden flight on Friday.
It flew hands off with excellent performance from the Revmaster engine.
I tried to upload a photo but I don't seem to be able to get the pixel count low enough for this forum.

Regards,

Steve
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Onex #138 first flight

Postby Sonex1462 » Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:28 pm

Congratulations!!


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Re: Onex #138 first flight

Postby jaflint » Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:08 pm

Fantastic! Congratulations, Steve. What an accomplishment!
Jason Flint
Sonex #1655
3.0L Corvair
1200+ hours
2600+ landings!
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Re: Onex #138 first flight

Postby kevinh » Mon Sep 11, 2017 1:49 am

congrats! btw - you can upload to http://imgur.com/ and then paste a link here. They are nice (unlike photobucket).
Taildragger Waiex in progress, tail done, wings done, about to mate wings to fuse,
then cowl, canopy, paint (photos): flush rivets, turbo aerovee, acro ailerons
(I built my RV7A and happily flew it for about 500 hrs)
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Re: Onex #138 first flight

Postby Stogie6 » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:00 am

Excellent! Another folding wing brother joins our growing numbers! Enjoy Phase 1.
David F. Jones
Memphis (Mud Island), TN
Aerovee powered Onex
N153TD
Based at KAWM and in the midst of Phase 1
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Re: Onex #138 first flight

Postby Bryan Cotton » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:30 am

Great news Steve! Hope you can get the picture thing figured out. To edit photo size I like Irfanview a lot. It is free and is also a great photo viewer.
Bryan Cotton
Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Onex #138 first flight

Postby bakfly » Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:30 am

Congratulation Steve and great to hear it performs so well. Nice colour scheme.
Cheers,
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Re: Onex #138 first flight

Postby Onex 9138 » Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:14 am

Some photos of Onex 9138 prior to the first flight.
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