Gord Sorensen wrote: > Just wondering about some of the differences bewtween the -1 and -2. > 1. What size are the fuselage longerons (5/8" or larger?) > 2. How thick is the plywood on the fuselage and firewall? > 3. Distance between the spars? (Is the -1 wing the same as the -2?)
I was hoping that somebody that actually knew what they were talking about would answer this, but I'll give it a shot, and if I'm wrong, I'm sure the truth will eventually come out. I'm pretty sure the -1 and the -2 use exactly the same 5/8" square spruce for fuselage structure, as well as plywood thickness, which is 3/32 for fuselage and quarter inch for firewall. The wings are very similar, if not exactly identical. Looking at the RR website at http://www.fly-kr.com/kr1.htm and http://www.fly-kr.com/kr2.htm, you can see that the KR-2 wing span is almost 4 feet longer and 18 square feet larger, so something's different somewhere. Certainly, if you had a pile of wood to build a KR-1 wing, you wouldn't have anything left over if you decided to build a -2 wing instead. But like I said, I don't even OWN a set of KR-1 plans, although I've heard they're not much to look at. If somebody would send me their set, I'd love to take a look at them, and then promptly return them. Then I'll know how to answer this question the next time around... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
