I talked to Roy at one of the KR a Gatherings back in the 90's. Nice guy. His wingspan was shorter as well . He reduced the stub wings a couple of feet to 19 feet 8 inches overall .
There was an article on his plane in Kitplanes March 98 Claims 190.54 mph top speed at the 1994 Sun and Fun race. Cheers Chris Gardiner CGKRZ KR2S Sent from my iPad > On Feb 26, 2014, at 6:39 AM, "Mark Langford" <ml at n56ml.com> wrote: > > Gavin McGill wrote: > >> This aircraft really is a bit of a mystery. It turned up in New Zealand at >> a NZ Sport Aircraft Association Fly-In at Tauranga airfield in 2008 (see >> link below) but has since seemingly disappeared off the face of the planet. > > That plane had a relatively high stall speed due to the thinner wing and > different airfoil. Without back checking, I think it's a 23012, which has a > pretty sharp stall characteristic. I hope the new pilot was aware of that > when he bought it, and didn't drink the RR Koolaid on stall speeds. I stood > by the runway at one of the early Gatherings and photographed Roy landing. > Although it was relatively calm (as I recall) it was a pretty hot landing. I > was well off the runway, but the wing almost got me in the somewhat hairy > landing... > > Mark Langford > ML at N56ML.com > website at http://www.N56ML.com > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
