Sam Bailey in Pratt, Kansas built three KR-1's and I think he used to do an aerobatic routine in one of them.
I can imagine what a "high speed turning stall" is but I've never done one so don't know what my KR would do . . . something predictible I would think. It's not an unpredictable plane. Tails usually fail before wings do but I've never heard of either one failing with KR's. Strange that someone would go through all the time and expense and work to build a KR and take this brand new plane out and do aerobatics with it after 10 hours? That doesn't sound likely, but who knows. Maybe he built it crooked. I think the main danger doing aerobatics is doing any negative G's and something loose getting caught in the control cables. The plane needs to be cleaned up really good before any aerobatics that could involve negative G's. Just my thought. I flew a Champ today for my BFR and it kicked my butt. The KR is so much easier and pleasant to fly. What an awful experience chasing the ball and needle with an instructor watching. I couldn't get the plane to correspond to the turn & bank or vice versa - those old planes react so SLOW it's painful. I can see it takes a lot of practice to fly them well. But who wants to? It was awful. Mike Stirewalt KSEE ____________________________________________________________ Want to place your ad here? Advertise on United Online http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/53fd3a57ef1c23a573c87st04vuc
