Video from the 09-23-20 flight, working on gathering data to plot the Vx and Vy curve in the manner described by the EAA Flight Test Guide. I opted to go back and redo the climb at 77 mph, this time starting with the aircraft trimmed for 77mph level flight before full power and climb attitude. This greatly reduced the amount of aft stick pressure that I needed to hold in order to maintain as consistent a climb speed as possible.


Sorry about the radio traffic levels in this.. the amount of engine noise in this configuration is extremely high, my ANR wasn't working due to a dead battery and being totally blind to the front with this amount of nose up angle I was hoping to try to keep tabs on any air traffic that might be a conflict. The higher I climb, the more distant I start picking up traffic on 122.8 tho, and it gets to almost a ridiculous level of distorted noise.


Between the last flight and this one, I did make a change to the caster angle of the tailwheel by fabricating a 1/4" shim plate for the rear mount of the tailwheel spring, and it seems that this worked in getting rid of the nasty shimmy the tailwheel was exhibiting.


I'm about 1/2 way through my 40 hour Phase 1 at this point, and it's hard to believe that almost a year has passed since I finished the airplane and received the sign-off.. that means I have a conditional inspection to get after soon.

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