Jeanette did say that she would be willing to provide a summary. I didn't ask what it would cost. She also said if you had a specific question about a small area, such as the firewall (her choice of part) she might be willing to extract that section of the analysis.
It sounded a lot like she paid for it and doesn't think anyone else needs it. She did say that the KR planes have been analyzed several times and alway found to be overbuilt. I think a lot of it is a matter of not wanting to be helpful to design changes. Her opinion was that if you were going to be making changes then you should be willing to pay an engineer by the hour to analyze the changes. She also said that it was a lot easier to do now with computers than the way they had to do it in the old days. For those of us who don't have access to a finite element analysis program, the hand written data and calculations would be useful. This should be a case of, "it may take a structural engineer to perform the analysis, but any engineer should be able to understand the results." -- wesley scott k...@spottedowl.biz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kraut" <brian.kr...@engalt.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:58 PM Subject: Re: KR> KR structural analysis > I would imagine that back in the 70s it was a bunch of hand written data and calculations. I suspect that even if you had it you would need to be a structural engineer to understand it and in that case you could probably redo it on a computer in less time than reviewing what Ken did. > > I would also not be surprised to find that the spars and a few other major items were calculated and a lot of the rest was eyeballed and fudge factored. I am not criticizing the design at all by saying this. I am sure that a lot of homebuilts are designed this way and we know that the KR is very structurarly sound. > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "Dan Heath" <da...@alltel.net> > Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:47:49 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time) > > >Did you ask her why you can't get the complete analysis? Can you get any > >part of the analysis? > > > > > > > >See N64KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Then click on the pics > > > >"There is a time for building and a time for flying, and the time for > >building has long since expired." > > > >Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC > > > >See you in Mt. Vernon - 2004 - KR Gathering > > > >See our EAA Chapter 242 at http://EAA242.org > > > > > > > >_______________________________________ > >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > >
