Lancair Legacy

Check out my Lancair Legacy at:

http://www.geocities.com/bwbpilot/

There's a link to my gyrocopter page too. Have fun. I did a test
flight today in this Lancai I flew from Las Vegas to Lake Tahoe and
back in a couple hours. At 8000 feet in this normally aspirated
Continental IO-550-M, burning 13.5 gallons/hr, my TAS was right at 230
knots or 265 mph. I had Martin Heisler and Pat O'Brian help me build
it. Martin is the builder of record. The, the more I fly it the more
I love it. Once you see this website, you will realize how hard it's
going to be to part with it and go back to my RV-6 which is right at
80 mph slower and almost the same gas mileage.

This Lancair burns 13.5 gal at 265 mph or about 20 miles per gallon.
Of course I can back all that off to 11 gal/hr at about 240 mph or
21.8 miles/gal.

The RV-6 goes 185 mph with one mag replaced by Klaus's plasma.
ignition system and burns about 8 gallons through an O-320-E2D. That's
right at: 23 miles per gallon. That's hard to justify in my mind ...I
mean slow down by 55 mph to save 2 miles per gallon.

I fly the Lancair at about 22 inches, and 2350 rpm at 8000 msl to
10,000 msl. That puts me in the range of 260-270 mph TAS. Of course
you play the winds and today I was flying at 10k msl and the Garmin
430 was reading out 260 knots...right at 300 mph on 21.5 inches MP and
2400 rpm with a fuel burn of right at 13.5 gal/hr. My real mpg today
was: 22.2.

The RV-6 and the Lancair are so similar in fuel burn per mile it's a
non issue really. It's just that the RV-6 is a $60,000 airplane and
the Lancair is a $315,000 airplane, full IFR, autopilot, with all the
whistles and bells.

I love this airplane. You'll see from the webpage I spared no money
in hiring the people I did to do the interior, paint, polish the parts
and put the right instruments in it. I love that S-Tech autopilot. I
was flying it today listening to the Opra music of Evita of Argentina
as I flew over 300 miles in an hour-hands off through clouds and
rainbows over the Sierra Nevada Mountain range to Tahoe and back.

Juaqin Murrietta