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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I emailed True Turn last week about a spinner for
my Impulse and they told me they had no plans to produce a 92 mm
spinner. I sure wish they would.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Clay Schmidt</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=vicenterc@comcast.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 15, 2005 7:12
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: IMPULSE Flights</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi Dan,</DIV>
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<DIV>Nice report. Probably the spinner is 92 mm which is over 3.5 inches
(3.62"). Is this is correct the spinner is the same size that the
Abbra uses. I know that ES composites sell that size. I
agree, the spinners are light and will be hard on them when using the
DZ. ES composites sells a carbon fiber spinner that
is stronger but not sure how compares with the Impuse
spinner. As you know I use 2C engine and I usually start the engine by
hand. </DIV>
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<DIV>I think I saw an e-mail from someone in the list that TT is making an
aluminum spinner that is 3 5/8" = 92.075mm. That would be the ideal
solution for YS users. The only draw back is that could be a little more
heavier.</DIV>
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<DIV>See ya at St. Louis. </DIV>
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<DIV>Vicente</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Due to Mike’s generosity and trust, I
was able to get a flight on his new Impulse today. I thought I might
add a few comments to his thread on the flight characteristics to this
point. Keep in mind that this is a very new plane and a very new
engine that is still running pretty rich. The plane is light in weight
and it flies “light”. The controls are pretty sensitive but can be
controlled with throws set up for personal taste. The roll rate is
somewhat dependant on airspeed as is the usual case. Elevator has a
very nice feel but it did take a bit more push for inverted flight than I am
used to. With that said the plane does not show any other tail heavy
tendencies at this point. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Uplines were straight and had a pretty
nice locked in feel, downlines were dead on, without the usual throttle to
elev. Mix, at least to this point. Small amount of mixing with rudder
to elevator for a pitch to belly in both rudder directions, very little if
any roll coupling was noticed today but that will be checked out a little
more thoroughly in the next few days. Rolls at this time seem to be
pretty darn axial, but this too, will be looked at more closely. Snaps
and spins were tinkered with today but they will need some fine tuning in
the set up. Plane would spin with the current cruise controls but
would not really snap, so conditions will need to be set. We had some
crosswind this afternoon but not in the strong range. Without getting
into the “weathervaning” banter but for lack of a better word, the plane did
like to weathervane into the crosswind, but being a light, wide and deep
bodied plane that is not surprising at all. The rudder is pretty
powerful on this plane and it will take some flights to get the cruise set
up right and to the feel of the rudder. Slow and point rolls are very
easy with this plane and should only get better with some additional
trimming.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">The Impulse is a very constant speed
type plane; the addition of throttle does not really speed the plane up very
much but certainly will sustain an upline. Downlines are not dead slow
but they are slow and constant and do not seem to increase very much in an
extended line.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">That is about all I can say with only
the one flight on the plane at this time. It does appear to be a
quality flying aircraft and with proper trimming and set up for individual
preferences I can see this plane being very competitive and well
received.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Hardware and
construction:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">The craftsmanship on the kit is very
nice, not perfect by any means but certainly up to and surpassing most of
what has been available to us lately. The trend the past few years has
been to save as much weight/cost as possible in the cowl and canopy
areas. This one is no different in that respect. The cowling is
large and pretty flimsy. It needs reinforcement right out of the
box. One kickback from a DZ or one little over zealous hand on the
nose during start up can crack this puppy real fast. The firewall and
motor mount combo seems good at this point. The CF spinner is a bit of
a pain. It does not take much for the back plate and the prop to
loosen their grip with each other with the prop becoming loose and the
spinner cone loosening. This can happen to the point of the back plate
twisting to the nose and binding on the nose of the plane. I am not
sure how long the spinner will hold up to the use of an electric start
either. As seems to be the case of the imports, the spinner is an odd
size to us. It is large with a 3.5” tru turn being a bit small as well
as a bit expensive</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Wingdings color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">J</SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">. I think
this fit could be managed with a bit of work around the aircrafts nose,
which would allow an aluminum spinner and would avoid the CF spinner
problems.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">I don’t know if any of this rambling
has been helpful or informative but I hope it has been. Several people
have wanted to get some kind of flight report on this model so Mike and I
thought we would get out as much as we have at this point and time. I
think the plane is a good one and the outlook for it is pretty bright, at
least after one flight</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Wingdings color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">J</SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Dan</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT
color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">
Curtis<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>