I feel that I should provide full disclosure in my response to your question. I fly out of a 1200 foot grass strip. I have no problem taking off and landing. I have not flown out of my airfield with my KR2 yet but I have put a lot of thought into the situation and I believe that the KR2 can be safely flown out of a 1200 foot strip.?
Touchdown should be at about 70 mph. I plan to have some high quality hydraulic disc brakes. Touch down at the edge of the field and begin braking. I have a tail dragger so the fuselage will remain level until the speed is low enough to drop the tail. A bellyboard or airbrakes could be helpful.? I am very interested in how things work for you. ?Please keep me informed. ?I'm at least a few months out before I am ready for taxi testing.? Joe Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Pierre via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> </div><div>Date:02/12/2015 2:36 AM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> </div><div>Subject: KR> Belly board </div><div> </div>Hi, I installed both flaps (20" X 12" inboard) as well as a belly board (clearance 2" hanging 90 degrees down). The idea is to use flaps on approach and use speed brake after touchdown. I will be testing on a 3,000 feet strip, but my personal strip is only 1,200 feet, so want to see if I can land within the 1,200 feet limit employing both systems in the sequence described above. Has anyone tested the amount of speed loss per 10 degree implementation of the belly board in straight and level flight? For example a 10 degree deployment reduce speed by 10 knots at 1,700 rpm. Also any advise or comments wellcome, both possitive and negative. The plane is now extremely close to finally testing and hopefully flightJ Take care! Pierre KR2S (98% compelted) Wittman Tailwind (80% completed) _______________________________________________ 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
