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Aviation Forum / General / Soaring / September 2008Maiden flight, N888LP LP-49 Glider
Today was the maiden flight of N888LP, the LP-49 experimental glider built by Walt Bybee and purchased by me earlier this year. It flew like a dream. Walt did a superb job of building it. The first flight was a tow to 3,000 AGL on a poor lift day. It was very well behaved on tow. After release, I did mostly slow flight, approaches to stalls and turns of various banks. I did not raise the gear or deploy the flaps. Althought there was no lift, I felt like it had a low sink rate. I'll know better after I fly it a few more times. The aircraft is rigged very well. Stick forces are light. Everything is what you'd expect. I feel like it likes a fair amount of rudder. I will be busy for a few weeks, but hope to get it back up again before the season is over in eastern Iowa. Congratulations Jim! I know it's a lot of work getting all those details together. I hope you have many wonderful flights in your ship. Matt > Today was the maiden flight of N888LP, the LP-49 experimental glider > built by Walt Bybee and purchased by me earlier this year. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I will be busy for a few weeks, but hope to get it back up again > before the season is over in eastern Iowa. > Today was the maiden flight of N888LP, the LP-49 experimental glider > built by Walt Bybee and purchased by me earlier this year. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I will be busy for a few weeks, but hope to get it back up again > before the season is over in eastern Iowa. jim, good to hear that you finally got the LP-49 in the air. fly it over to ames sometime this fall for supper, on me! :) On Sep 7, 3:21 pm, cherokee3...@gmail.com wrote: > jim, > > good to hear that you finally got the LP-49 in the air. fly it over to > ames sometime this fall for supper, on me! :) Tony, that's a great idea! I have to fly 10 hours off it before I can leave 25 nm radius of Lone Tree. After that, I should drag it up to Ames and take some lessons from you guys. BTW, we had 5 gliders in the air here, not all at one time, but all one day. It was a great feeling. That was mine, Don's, Mike's, Vince's and the club glider. I hope you've been getting up. I enjoy your messages about your flights. Tell Matt about the LP-49 if you see him. He helped get the deal started. Jim |
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