Paul Smith wrote: > Had a friend with a standard KR who built an 8" deep cushions for his > wife. The cushion was hollowed out in back and could be filled with > clothing. They went everywhere in that little bird. Google "VH-XXS" stood > for eXtra eXtra small :-).
That works great for short little women, but those are few and far between where I live. Other than my wife, it's mostly large-to-huge guys who are building KRs that I end up flying! The aft spar bounds the back of the seating arrangement, so you can't go aft, and the only way you can go forward 6" is for short folks. If you go to the trouble of setting up staggered seating, which I've yet to see, it'd have to be your wife (or girlfriend) to rate that kind of effort, and most women are too smart to fly in KRs, my wife being a notable exception. It sounds viable though. So in all the flying I've done in N56ML I'd estimate under 1% of it being with a passenger (mostly familiarization flights at the Gathering), except my brother has flown down to my father's farm with me a lot, so maybe I'm up to 2% with a passenger, and he's smaller than I am. I'm not trying discourage two-up flight in a KR, but build it wide, long, with wing tanks,and put a big engine in it, or you are flirting with not enough power to get you out of a jam. A lot of folks would say "go build an RV", but there have been enough successful KRs that have blazed the trail already...for occasional two-up flying, they work fine. If you think most of your flying will be dual (and you are probably wrong), find something else to build and fly, then arrive at the same conclusion has many of us...build a single-seater... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
