April 1, 2004 Hi Mark,
Congratulations on your flight of the new AS5046 airfoil. Forwarded your post to Dr. Selig at the University. Just got a reply and he cautioned you to remember that the wind tunnel tests, on the AS504x series airfoils, were performed on April 1, 1999 :-) Enjoy the day Steve Eberhart Mark Langford wrote: > Some of y'all might have noticed no updates to my site lately. That's > because I've been busy flying N56ML! I got tired of messing around with > paint, so I got a case of white Rustoleum spray cans from Walmart and just > got the paint job thing behind me. It looks "good enough for KR". Bolted > in some inertia reel seatbelts from an old Karmann Ghia, used Vice-Grips for > the canopy latches. Got it signed off last week (he didn't notice the > missing latches), and flew it for the first time on Saturday. > > Not much to tell so far, other than it flys like a dream, has a top speed of > 235 mph straight and level, and stalls at 38 mph with full "barndoor" flaps. > No pitch sensitivity at all. Climb rate is an amazing 3000 fpm. Great > flying plane, hands off! > > And let's not forget that it's April Fools Day, so you can't really trust > anything anybody says or writes on the Internet anyway. You never know when > somebody might be joking with you... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > N56ML at hiwaay.net > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
