Mark said, "I don't know what this is, but I wouldn't click on it!"
Me neither. *************** Re the flap/belly board/spoiler discussion, some thoughts . . . Spoilers would be a great help in being able to keep the plane high when on approach and then dropping down to the runway threshold. Works really well on other slick designs like Mooneys . . . but then so would a nice big belly board that goes down 90?. Mine doesn't extend enough to be very effective. Of course, I slip like crazy sometimes to drop down to the threshold but still I sometimes find myself in that danger zone of possibly landing short if the engine were to quit. Sparky has stub wing flaps on his KR but he says they don't do much. Kind of like my belly board. Our drag devices aren't very effective but we always use what we got. Flaps on a tail dragger KR with retractable gear won't work, as I recall with first KR. My trailing edge was only about three inches off the ground. I'm sure nobody is using the retract system with new builds. Mine worked great though. Built by an Convair engineer, he used an extra heavy duty springbar and latching mechanism. Split flaps (DC-3, Cessna 310, etc.) would render the advantages of both flaps and belly board. I've attached pics of a Mustant II I saw at French Valley this last September with this configuration. I coveted that particular airplane with the drag reducing touches it had . . . very slick, fast and comfortable. A belly board does produce some lift and reduces stall speed slightly, as Mark has observed. Mike KSEE ____________________________________________________________ Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P1020302.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 37866 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://list.krnet.org/mailman/private/krnet_list.krnet.org/attachments/20150114/a14460be/attachment.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P1020301.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 40346 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://list.krnet.org/mailman/private/krnet_list.krnet.org/attachments/20150114/a14460be/attachment-0001.jpg>
