It's wise to build a cabin/seating mockup before starting if you can determine you're built anything at all unlike the designer of your chosen airplane or if you don't quite conform to whatever the FAA generic human's proportions happen to be. Peter, I'm your height and weight, and no amount of diet and exercise is going to narrow my shoulders or pelvis. Steve Wittman was also tall as well as thin and I don't fit into his V-Witt if built to plans. Lots of legroom - the rudder pedals are too far away - but the bottom longerons are like 19" apart. My bottom longerons are 20". My elbows can't hang naturally at my sides, they have to be forward and in, about halfway between hips and belly button, for my arms to fit between the upper longerons. I sat in a standard KR-2 with a friend who is probably 5'11 and 200 lbs and our heads were touching the canopy. That's very annoying to me and it made the single center seat configuration seem like a good way to go with a standard-width KR-2.
Chris On 1/8/2015 7:05 PM, peter via KRnet wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
