KRnetHeads, Since it's quiet tonight, I'll throw this one out there. Back in 2010, Willie Wilson posted his first flight report on Ken Atkinson's English KR2S. There are several unique things about this plane...Ken built a custom trailer for it that facilitates off-field storage and makes the whole "removable wing" thing viable, and a sweet flap/drag brake to slow it down for his short field. I made a web page out of it, with 14 pictures that Willie took.
Then I went back to Liverpool on business in 2011 and arranged to see it in person, and took the remaining 100 or so photos, which I finally got around to adding this week. I re-discovered these because I was looking for the front deck overhanging the firewall. This example is not exactly what I had in mind, but it does show several ways to retain the firewall while supporting the front deck and cowling. Note the use of optimized thin sheet metal (looks like stainless, unless it's highly polished "aluminium") by rolling the edges 90 degrees to increase resistance to bending. There is a lot of meticulous attention to detail in this plane, proving that a "clean" plane can be built on a budget, with a little ingenuity. See http://www.krnet.org/krs/katkinson/ for details. The passenger seat was converted to an in-flight "desk", since CAA rules have assigned such a low gross weight value to the KRs as to make them practically one-seaters... -- Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com http://www.n56ml.com
