Aerovee Turbo Kit

[MichaelFarley56]

Congrats on being mostly finished up Bill! I can't wait to hear your flight impressions once you get the Sonex back in the air! Hopefully the RDAC is back soon!

Keep us up to date on how things go.

[wlarson861]

The turbo came to life today. The first start was uneventful with no major hemorrhage of oil but it was slobbering rich. 5 minute run and it started to rain so back in the hangar. If weather behaves I'll get the tuning done tomorrow and get a test hop done. Need to get 5 hours done before the weekend so I can travel.

[intoaircooled]

I don't post very often but wanted let everyone know that Sonex 0048 has been restored to fully operational status. After a 13 year break it is back to a airworthy status and has been updated with a new Grand Rapids 8.5" Sport EFIS and a new Turbo Aerovee 2.1. Doing W&B tomorrow and off to my local (Denver) FSDO on Tuesday to restart/finish the Phase 1, it was never completed back in 2002.

Ground runs/tests have been very good with the turbo. Will have more to report after next week once all the paperwork is in order.

[Bryan Cotton]

Hey Carl,
Good news and I am glad you posted. Hope to hear more as you go along.

[Sonex1517]

This is great to hear! So glad to hear of a home built being saved vs languishing!


Robbie Culver
Sonex 1517
Chicagoland
Tails and Wings complete - finishing fuselage.
N1517S reserved

[mike.smith]

I hope some of these turbos make it to OSH this year. It will be good to see and hear about them firsthand.

[wlarson861]

Sonex 0861 has completed the phase 1 requirements and is again released to the wild. I did the time to climb and stall series and found the stall to be the same at 42 mph at the new gross of 1150#. Vy was 790 fpm at 80 mph. I think the actual climb rate will be better when I can get the "ballast" to run the clock and take the notes on the data while I just fly the airplane! I finished the required flight tests on Saturday but the weather has not cooperated since. Got the ignition dialed in today but just a ground run so far, true test is a flight with the electronic ignition off to see if there is a temp drop. Regardless of where the numbers sort out I think I'm really happy with the upgrade. If I were building at this time I would definitely consider the Turbo upgrade. If I already had an engine that was normally aspirated I would lay out the firewall for the Turbo upgrade, cause you know you're gonna have to have it!!!! This is the best thing to come along since I bought the plans!

[dtwolcott]

Bill
Fantastic! I will try and get by to look at the installation. You are now making me think that I might want to make some changes to my firewall attachments before I finish the plane.
Don

[SonexN76ET]

Bill, Mike, and Geary are all starting to give me some turbo fever. Time to start putting some more pennies into the piggy bank... I am slowly moving things over on my firewall in anticipation of going with the turbo someday. I cant wait to see your numbers after you get the turbo broken in and do some cross countries. I really enjoyed the video of Geary showing his turbo installation at the Midwest Sonex Fly in. Bill, I am glad to see your turbo up and running. That has got to feel awesome having that extra power!

Jake

[Gripdana]

Is the video posted somewhere?