I am thinking along these lines, not building yet. The airport where I will base my completed aircraft, whatever it may turn out to be, is at 6200'. Much as I like Jeff Scott's O-200 approach for a hot and high home airport, a VW based engine is about the size of my budget for purchase and to keep running. There will be way more times I would be flying alone and it doesn't make sense to me to build a 2-seater. The added span and wing area of a KR-2 on a single seat fuselage would seem to make the most of the available power of a VW at high altitude.
Chris On 1/5/2015 10:51 PM, James Cook via KRnet wrote: > Hi all, > > A new member question here. > > My primary interest is a single seater, but it seems to me that most of the > builders building 2 seaters. Since I am a first time builder, I have to > rely more on others advice than more experienced builders, but if there are > not too many single seater builders, it would be an uphill battle. > > The other fact is that the KR-2S have all the latest and greatest > improvements in it, so I am thinking to get a KR-2S and narrow down the > fuselage to 1 person, build it light with a 60hp or so VW engine. That way > I can use the advice of the majority of the builders, I can use prefab > parts as available and I can build a LIGHT single seater plane with 400+ > lbs empty weight, 800 lbs gross weight as it was designed originally. > > Is there a downside of my plan? > > Is there anyone else building along this plan? > > Thanks, James > _______________________________________________ > 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.org to change > options > >
