Re: First flight, PT-26

ccmueller001 · Post by **ccmueller001** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:09 am

'Its been about a week since my seemingly never ending PT-26 rebuild project took to the air. There is a couple of photos added in the N69167 album of it.

Thank you all for the many contributions made to help me through the rebuild. This group has been a valuable source of information and ideas. Such support that would have been difficult without the many Fairchild Club members.

It flies very nicely. The smoothness of controls is amazing. I then flew a Great Lakes and was surprise at the higher control forces needed which hadn't been recognized before. I may be spoiled for the torque tube and push/pull with ball bearing rod ends linkage system.

There are a couple of problems yet. Can smell CO in the back seat, and I'm pretty certain I have a tail wheel shimmy problem. Will rig up a video camera this weekend to confirm that. Not sure how to track down the CO/exhaust gas entrance location. Thought I'd try using some vinyl tape to seal up panel seams until a difference was noted.

There is a nicely done tail wheel video on YouTube that came up in the GL newsgroup. That can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgZkfiWFDbs&feature=player_embedded'

Jeffrey Whitesell · Post by **Jeffrey Whitesell** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:37 pm

'put a little duct tape around the panels where they meet the flap fairings in the belly....we did this, and it made a huge difference

Jeff

On Nov 17, 2011, at 7:09 AM, ccmueller001 wrote:

> Its been about a week since my seemingly never ending PT-26 rebuild project took to the air. There is a couple of photos added in the N69167 album of it.
>
> Thank you all for the many contributions made to help me through the rebuild. This group has been a valuable source of information and ideas. Such support that would have been difficult without the many Fairchild Club members.
>
> It flies very nicely. The smoothness of controls is amazing. I then flew a Great Lakes and was surprise at the higher control forces needed which hadn't been recognized before. I may be spoiled for the torque tube and push/pull with ball bearing rod ends linkage system.
>
> There are a couple of problems yet. Can smell CO in the back seat, and I'm pretty certain I have a tail wheel shimmy problem. Will rig up a video camera this weekend to confirm that. Not sure how to track down the CO/exhaust gas entrance location. Thought I'd try using some vinyl tape to seal up panel seams until a difference was noted.
>
> There is a nicely done tail wheel video on YouTube that came up in the GL newsgroup. That can be found here:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgZkfiWFDbs&feature=player_embedded
>
>

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Jeff Whitesell
topfun@fivetogether.com

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Bill Johnson · Post by **Bill Johnson** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:30 pm

'Congratulations on your first flight! Your PT looks beautiful!

Bill Johnson

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Subject: [fairchildclub] First flight, PT-26

Its been about a week since my seemingly never ending PT-26 rebuild
project took to the air. There is a couple of photos added in the N69167
album of it.

Thank you all for the many contributions made to help me through the
rebuild. This group has been a valuable source of information and ideas.
Such support that would have been difficult without the many Fairchild
Club members.

It flies very nicely. The smoothness of controls is amazing. I then flew
a Great Lakes and was surprise at the higher control forces needed which
hadn't been recognized before. I may be spoiled for the torque tube and
push/pull with ball bearing rod ends linkage system.

There are a couple of problems yet. Can smell CO in the back seat, and
I'm pretty certain I have a tail wheel shimmy problem. Will rig up a
video camera this weekend to confirm that. Not sure how to track down
the CO/exhaust gas entrance location. Thought I'd try using some vinyl
tape to seal up panel seams until a difference was noted.

There is a nicely done tail wheel video on YouTube that came up in the
GL newsgroup. That can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgZkfiWFDbs&feature=player_embedded

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