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Originally Posted by Crazy_pilot
Wow, glad you were able to get it all back together and back in the air. Got to love experimental - incidents like that are so much easier to fix than the certified world. My club had a 172 involved in a hard landing a couple years ago - prop strike, wrinkled firewall, etc. Repair estimate was $62,000 (CAD). We ended up with a new plane.
Is your radiator door actuator airspeed controlled?
The Velocity SE's come in around that weight range and most are IO-360 powered, so an EG33 would be a perfect powerplant for them. The XL's, particularly the RG variant, come in anywhere from 1800-2000 lbs depending how tricked out the builder makes it.
What sort of fuel burn and MPG do you see in your plane?
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Chris,
We always run an in-cockpit camera on every flight. Since you know about landing incidents I thought you may have an interest in this video of the last 60 seconds of our landing accident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEMZMF75IDs
The radiator door is pilot controlled, we keep the water temp around 190 to 195F.
In cruse engine RPM is about 4900 with a fuel burn of about 11.5 GPM or 20 MPG.
At race power, about 5100 or 5200 RPM, we burn 15 or 16 GPM that gives 16 MPG.
Russell Sherwood