Success in Canada

Racer on the track in Windsor Red Bull Air Race
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We made it! Peter was not on the podium, but this was not our goal this time. All we wanted to be competitive and test the planes behaviour on track under real pressure with tight time limits and the Racer 540 passed the tests perfect. After having more than two years of development on this brand new and unique aircraft our efforts were not useless. Having our own developed aircraft in the Red Bull Air Race is more than just a big succes for us and this means as well, that we are now on a new path. Hundreds of little steps still to go and all this steps will be make a big one. Herewith we would like to say a big thanks to Eric Fauteux and to Corey Fice who did an unbeliiveable great job as well as Peter Besenyei's technician Jim Reed begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting. With all of their work all the way it could not have happened. 10th place may not be that impressive for those who haven't seen all the story we have gone through but we are pretty satisfied with all this.

Live stream of the Race in Windsor

The Corvus Racers debute in Windsor will start soon on raceday! Follow the times and challenge in real time!

Times:

http://www.redbullairrace.com/tda/

Challenges all the way

After having some test flights before training one we realized that the engine's performance is a bit far form what we expected. As the training 1 ended Peter reported engine failure and after checking the engine's log in the computer, it showed extreme high rpm. It means as well that the engine was overloaded and this could lead to failure, so we decided to change engine back to that one we mounted in in Perth.

Right now the whole team is working on that to have the Racer ready for training 2.

With this engine Peter was really satisfied this seems to be the best and only solution.

On the other hand the Thunderbolt engine in the Corvus was an angle valve, which is much heavier than the MXS's engine.