Sid; The picture you draw is priceless! I'm coming to McMinville just to see that sight. At 160lbs and 5'7", I'm borderline overweight. I'm not giving advice where none was asked for...but improving your KR's climb rate and passenger comfort, and improving safety by shortening landing and takeoff distances, and radically increasing utility by allowing two pilots, is best done by eating vegan and walking with you wife at sunset. My two greatest hero-pilots, Steve Wittman and Charles Lindberg were thin as rails, as was Ken Rand himself. Got to go... wife is serving beetburgers tonight! Peter
The cabin width on my stock plans-built KR-2 is 34 inches inside rail to inside rail. Two 200-pound friendly persons can sit in the cockpit and shut the canopy with both heads against the Plexiglas; actually flying the aircraft is actually possible, but highly unlikely. At 5' 10", leg room is fine. Four flights with one 200-pound person have been done. I am strongly considering converting my KR-2 to a single place machine with one center seat. Will finish the Phase I testing and re-visit the conversion consideration at that time. Sid Wood Tri-gear KR-2 N6242 Mechanicsville, MD, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ While I?m only 5?9? i have wide shoulders. I widened my fuselage to 43? at the outer edge of the upper longerons. Like a glove. I?m crafting everything i can.( some are a learn as you go). I want to buy as little as possible. So modifying is not an issue for me. ------------------------------ ....I'm a 185 pounder and 5'10" high and I fit (with a "cloned " passenger )resonable comfortable in my 40" wide Kr! When I widened my fuselage ,I put back the 40" to the shoulder area.Therefore I had to put back the straight line of the longerons a little ( 10-12 inch). Therby,making the turtle deck was a bit tricky,because it had to be spherical in this area.(due to the slightly curved longerons). Of course the Kr2s is a comfortable single seater also with plenty of storage. I would not recommend to build a "Kr 1 s" because then you will lose the mentioned advantages of a two seater. And finaly ,to build a single seat "Kr1s" with an emty weight of about 400 to 450 pounds is almost impossible. Herbert German Kr2s _______________________________________________ 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
