Your point in your previous post was important. ?The KR becomes a much easier plane to land with deployable drag, whether it's a belly board or flaps. ?You spend a lot less time over the runway transitionsing from flying to rolling.
I flew my KR 500 hours without flaps, and now have another 500 hours on it since I added flaps. ?Much like Ken Rand said, I never really understood how badly this plane needed flaps (deployable drag) until I added them to it. ?FWIW, my flaps reduce the stall speed by 3 kts IAS. ?It's not a huge amount, but is easy to build into the plane. ?Photos of the process of adding flaps to my plane are on my web site at <http://jeffsplanes.com>. Others have chosen to build belly boards as deployable drag, probably for ease of construction for retrofiting. ?But I don't think you'll find anyone that has added any form of deployable drag to their KR that will tell you the plane didn't need it. -Jeff Scott Los Alamos, NM > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Doran Jaffas > Sent: 12/03/13 06:58 AM > To: krnet at list.krnet.org > Subject: KR> Correction on my commemt > > I mis spoke regarding stall speeds . Of course the belly flap does not > reduce the stall speed. It assists in slowing the aircraft ONLY. The dims. > will determine the drag and ability to slow down. When adding this to any > clean aircraft PLEASE USE CAUTION . > ?N186RC > _______________________________________________
