Bobby Muses's plane is beautiful. Just the gear is ugly. My opinion only, but not many tricycle gears look to good excepting a few. Just that the KR to me has always looked best as a fixed taildragger. And a taildragger is very easy to get comfortable in, in a very short time. Just my opinion.
bobby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 6:40 AM Subject: Re: KR>Fixed verses retract > So far this discussion hasn't mentioned insurance. If you are not > tailwheel endorsed, you're going to have to spend some money to get that > way, and then may have trouble getting hull insurance at all until you have > something like 50 hours of tailtragger time. > > And there's no question that the tri-gear is easier to takeoff and land. > But I keep hearing that taildraggers make you a better pilot, and that's > what I want to be. > > I'm building a taildragger, but I don't find the tri-gear ugly. I sure > wouldn't call Bobby Muses's plane ugly. Tri-gear makes it look like a more > substantial "real" airplane, in my opinion. > > And the number one reason NOT to use retracts is that you can't possibly > forget to put the gear down if it's fixed! > > 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
