{"id":23078,"date":"2024-08-07T19:43:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23078"},"modified":"2024-08-07T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T18:03:37","slug":"now-on-to-the-x-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/now-on-to-the-x-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Now on to the X-air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having completed my work on my Savannah yesterday, today I moved on to my X-air. Like the Savannah, this has also been standing for months with its engine only having been run from time to time but at least it has been under covers so they took the brunt of the dirt, filth and bird poo and only small areas of the aircraft were affected. I started by pumping up its tyres and then moved on to emptying, flushing and refilling its cooling system with 50% G12 anti-freeze, the same as for the Savannah.<\/p>\n

As it has a Rotax 582 two stroke motor which I extensively checked over before flying the aircraft to France in 2020, there was little to do by way of servicing other than a general inspection and cleaning and re-gapping the spark plugs and then I was all set to start and run the engine. It did so faultlessly so after confirming that the coolant and EGT gauges were rising towards their expected levels and there were no leaks, I was able to shut the engine down and move on to the initial stages of thoroughly cleaning the aircraft inside and out as I’d done for the Savannah.<\/p>\n

I took the following shots after I’d started washing the aircraft down after I’d reached the end of a very dirty bucket of water which I decided wasn’t worth re-filling before packing up and leaving for home.<\/p>\n

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As the shots I took of the Savannah yesterday were so poor, I took some more shots today while it was still clean and sparkling in the sunlight. <\/p>\n

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It was cooler today than it’s been of late but as it’ll be up to 30 degrees C again tomorrow I’m aiming to make another early start on the X-air to try and finish it off before it gets too hot. So it’ll be early to bed tonight with the aim of getting cracking at Malbec by about 8.00 am. That’s the aim anyway… \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having completed my work on my Savannah yesterday, today I moved on to my X-air. Like the Savannah, this has also been standing for months with its engine only having been run from time to time but at least it has been under covers so they took the brunt of the dirt, filth and bird … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23078"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23088,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078\/revisions\/23088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}