Paul,
In addition to tieing the tail wheel down, I also ran a piece of
room up forward around the main wheel and back to the same tie down. I
used a convenient tie down ring at the airport which happened to be a
bent over re-bar in a concrete slug in the ground. This worked very
well. I ran it up to full rpm for five minutes. This is more than
enough for you to take off and get to a decent altitude while you fly
around the airport in a circle. We just notified the other aircraft we
were doing a first flight and would be in the pattern at about 1500 to
2000'. This way we could always do a dead stick landing of necessary up
wind or down wind. After about 20 minutes in the pattern, first landing
and shut down for a check out and then back into the air----------- What
a lovely time for a video camera to show what many years of hard work
(but fun) can do.......
Jim Nelson
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> Thanks, Paul
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