It sure is good to have you guys to talk to. What about putting in wing tanks like make did on his, after it is built? Thanks, Russ Houck.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 3:13 PM Subject: Re: KR>KR2 or S Can you strech one? > Russ Houck wrote: > > > I'm new and I'm 6-2 and 250lbs. There is a KR2 I'm looking at to put a > > corvair motor on, could I stretch the completed KR2 (Unpainted) or is that > > more work than it's worth? I the KR2 big enough for me? > > Jim Hill stretched his KR2 to a KR2S, but only because he broke the tail off > in a force landing incident! It can be done, but be careful to properly > scarf the longerons and plywood. Other than that, altering the turtle deck > (not trivial) and longer cables would be necessary. It sure sounds like a > lot of work to me though, and as Kenneth said, your fuselage will have some > discontinuous curves in it afterwards. It took Jim Hill two years to do > his. Personally, I don't think it'd be worth the effort. Keeping the CG at > the forward end of the range will go a long way towards accomplishing the > same goal and a Corvair would do that immediately. Before you make any > decisions, you'd need to do a weight and balance and consider the extra > weight of the Corvair and where it's located. > > Will you fit? It all depends on how tall the guy made the canopy, and how > deep he made the seat. Leg room will probably be short, but there are pleny > of tall guys flying KRs. It all depends on how bad you want it... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html
