Today at 3:10 AM The egos,,,,, the drama,,,,, the over reactions,,,,, the perfectionism,,,,, WOW I am sick, Mr. Langford, get over yourself.? Life is short!!!!? Just stop and be likeable it is enough to make me puke!? Your plane is awesome, your knowledge and experience are beyond reproach, but my dear sir you take yourself waaaaaaaaaay too seriously as do others on this site.? No one is better than any other in this world, no one has the right to belittle others, especially for trivialities.? Think what you will of this email, slam me as you do others, but this is truly for your own good and of those around you.? It is well intentioned as I have nothing to gain or lose from this.? I enjoy the vast amount of excellent information, but the truth is the egos and attitudes are a bit much.? We all do well in taking a long look at ourselves with a neutral view to see ourselves as others perceive us.? If this means nothing to you, then the loss is your own.
Sincerely, Carl Edward Dow On Friday, May 9, 2014 10:25 PM, Jeff Scott via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > Maybe I AM blowing smoke and will inhale it later but I AM curious about > all the talk of adding drag to the KR to slow it down. > ?I have flown several low drag / clean aircraft without flaps and > never had any unnerving problems with landing. > ?My personal opinion banded on some experience is to fly the airplane > as intended. Get comfortable with the SLOWER SPEEDS and then determine what > / if anything else one needs or wants to add. THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH IN > AERODYNAMICS. > ?All aircraft have speeds that work best as they are intended. Whether > a larger engine or a set of drag inducing flaps or belly board one MUST > ALWAYS REALIZE THE CHANGE will affect something else. > ?Doran > ?N186RC > ?kr2owner at email.co. I was thinking the same way when I built my KR. ?I flew it 500 hrs with no flaps, belly board, or any other deployable drag. ?What I found over the years is that as I kept improving the plane with incremental drag reductions, the plane was getting more difficult to land. ?I was spending too much time over the runway transitioning from flying to rolling. ?At 500 hours, I did some major renovations to the plane <http://jeffsplanes.com/> to include a significantly larger tail and the addition of flaps. ?To me, it was shocking as to how much easier this plane is to land with some kind of deployable drag. ?I have put another 500 hours on the plane since I added the flaps and have continued with my drag reduction improvements. ?It is really rare that I ever land this plane without flaps now that they are on there. I don't think there was much question that I could fly the plane well in it's original configuration. ?(OK, some of you may think I suck as a pilot :o) ?What I discovered after adding flaps and a larger tail is that the plane was much easier to land. ?By making it easier to land, I found that I was much more comfortable landing the plane in more challenging wind conditions. ?Since I could land under more challenging conditions, I was flying the plane a lot more and was very comfortable flying off to other places without having to worry about changing wind conditions at my destination airport or the often times challenging wind conditions getting back into my one way in, one way out, 7000' high on a mesa home airport. ?Adding flaps and a larger tail to my plane simply made my plane so I could use it a more. -Jeff Scott Los Alamos, NM _______________________________________________ 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.orgto change options
