Bou; I will add my congratulations to those that the others have offered, and of course we're all happy that the flight brought you back to earth safe and sound. You'll soon get to the bottom of the stick force issue, I'm sure.
What I am *not* sure of is why I might merit special mention when you were thanking people for their help? As I recall, the only thing I did was drive out to Paul Martin's shop with you one day to look at his KR2 when he was converting it from its original KR retracts and tailwheel to trigear. The only reference I have to that is a little webpage that I put up describing my first flight in a KR (Paul's), here: http://www.flysquirrel.net/ride.html . That page is dated December 1999, fifteen years ago, so anything I did to help keep you motivated back then has long since burned out ;o) Again, congrats! Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Pietenpol NX41CC, A75 power