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Old 02-08-2004 | 02:27 PM
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Default RE: First plane!!

GOOD NEWS

I was out at the park yesterday and got the old FP engine running smooth as silk!!! (no wings attached for fear of taking off). It took me a few restarts to find a good mixture setting though. I would get it started, then slowly open and close the throttle but if I did too much in either direction the engine would bog down quite a bit. I finally found a mixture setting that was good for all throttle settings but seemed like it would be a little too lean. So today after reading the last post on lean settings being bad, I will open it up a bit more and run it again. The mixture needle os so close to the prop on the FP engine that I don't want to loose a finger after it's started!!!