After proving the fuel flow to be adequate, we pulled the Sportsman back from the road, up Brutus and Nancy's driveway pulling it with Barry Toole's tractor, we tied the plane to the tractor, Stratford got in the pilot's seat, Dee in the co-pilot's seat, and with Doug manning two fire extinguishers, we went through the detailed engine start checklist. When Stratford pushed the START button, it took only one revolution of the prop and the eMags had our O-360-A1A running!.

We ran the engine only at idle and up to 1000rpm. for a couple of minutes. We tried cycling the Hartzell Constant Speed propeller. Nothing! And pulled a second time...no response from the prop. Then Stratford pulled the mixture control full out to Idle Cutoff...and, nothing! That is the engine did not stop running! As you might imagine, we were shocked! So Dee tried pulling the mixture again...and again, nothing. So Stratford switched the power off to the eMags and the engine stopped. (eMags don't produce enough power at under about 900rpm to keep the engine running..)

We started the engine again, and again repeated the same process of cycling the prop and pulling the mixture to idle cutoff. Still nothing. So we folded the wings and pushed the Sportsman back into Brutus's three-bay garage. After swinging the wings back out we left for the day.