Very good responses. Hand propping doesnt scare me and I like the simplicity of a KR1 with no electrics, just a handheld radio. I didnt even think about the alternator/generator being what constituted an electric system in an airplane. I dont mind a starter, battery, and maybe a solar panel or wind generator.
And now I can send that Coffman Starter system back to ebay. :/ http://youtu.be/IACjOvyx5hs BTW, a REAL experimental aircraft was built for the movie Flight of the Phoenix, a TallMantz P-1 Experimental, and it crashed on a low pass when the skid touched a sand mound, killing famous Hollywood stunt pilot Paul Mantz. That's why the plane in the final scenes is so different, it was a modded North American O47B.
