Spins are things you have to put yourself into unless you do something stupid like press on into IFR weather in your VFR plane. The Grumman Tr-2 has a warning about entering spins that says, basically, "DO NOT put into spins! If you do not recover within the first rotation, it is HIGHLY unlikely you will recover at all." Like the Grumman, the KR is a very short plane with little vert' stab'. The plane will most likely go into a flat spin (not good!). Grumman's solution was the "spin kit" which was a belly fin. In the 1980's, NASA used the lowly Tr-2 for flat spin tests. They had a "spin chute" mounted on the tail of the bird and every time they deployed the chute, they painted a little black, nose down, airplane on t he side of the cockpit. The KR is designed to be light, cheap to build and fast. There are a plethora of other designs out there designed with acro' in mind. Hell, if you want to build a plane capable of mild acrobatic, then build the VP-1. The VP-1 is capable of acro' but the wings are braced and the empenage is huge.
-------Original Message------- From: KR builders and pilots List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Thursday, August 07, 2003 07:02:39 To: kr...@mylist.net Subject: KR>spin? Jim said vertical stab. might be too small to recover from a spin. What if you get into a spin? Are you going to accept you will become a smoking hole? What can builders do to correct the problem? i.e. larger feathers? I haven't started building Boat yet so I can make changes very easy. Still building hardware and putting up. Staying current in Auburn Al. Steven Phillabaum skp...@charter.net _______________________________________________ see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html .
