First flight of the ‘Shetland’ engine

Engine refit and rewire all complete and signed off today and first test flight

I don’t often fly in just shorts ..but it was around 30 degrees ..very close and hot … engine was already warm from a ground run .. so oil temp was already up to 50 in no time …

10 mins from startup .. to taxi out ..take off .. a couple of orbits and back to land ..admittedly a little too fast .. (you can see her skip up slightly) ..but first biplane landing in some months

Great news is that the new colour gauge is reading perfectly

I’ve configured it so that , instead of split 2 x EGT and 2 x CHT.. I’ve got all 4 x CHT on this gauge reading vertically .. much easier to glance

The old MGL multi gauge now has 4 x EGT reading concurrently