Larry Severson wrote: > The latest issue of Kitplanes (August 2004) has a "Wind Tunnel" article by > Barnaby Wainfan that explains the importance of angles in aircraft design > and flight performance. It talks about stall indirectly, but mentions > directly the reason why a number of the faster O-200 powered KR2s fly nose > low, why this is not beneficial, and the fix.
I didn't see the words "KR2" or "0-200" anywhere in that article, so maybe they make a special version of Kitplanes for us slow southern readers. What I did see was validation of exactly what I've been saying about the KR having too much incidence for the high speeds that we are now running at, and too much decalage which leads to even more drag. There's more on this at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kopinion.html , down near the middle. I'll try to get permission from Kitplanes to post this article so everybody can read it. Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
