Larry F and Mike T, Sorry, Couldn't reply sooner as it was necessary to check out the several suggestions prompted by your responses. I have Diehl gear 4.062" behind datum line (leading edge). Everything has checked out as designed or planned. I must confess that my plane is not exactly a KR,... I took my old 1970's KR plan, added 14" to boat length, two inches to motor mount lenght, moved pilot and wing back an inch, narrowed the fuselage to 24 ", and balanced the rudder and elevator,...most of this for aesthetic purposes...to get a cleaner, longer line. I am working from a fairly bumpy grass field where the grass was pretty high at the tie down. To complicate this, my wheel chocks lock the wheels to the ground front and back of the wheels and when brakes are applied it was difficult to raise the tail by hand. Today, (as one of you suggested), I was less timid on the runway, taxi-ing to 40 mph and of a sudden, the usual rear fuselage noise sunsided and I knew immediately that I had tail wheel lift off. Bit of a heart flutter there!!! Still had good directional control. Incidently I bought a pair of roller blades at a yard sale for a dollar and found that I had eight tail wheels. The one installed is working well. And so it is, oft times the simplest things conspire to delay that first flight! Thanks for youe help. Pat R
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Turner" <aviato...@msn.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 10:19 PM Subject: Re: KR> Engines > Just curious how far forward of the main spar are your main landing gear? Have you checked your angle of inscindence on the horz stab. ? > Mike Turner > ----- Original Message ----- > From: patrusso<mailto:patru...@sover.net> > To: KRnet<mailto:kr...@mylist.net> > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 3:14 PM > Subject: Re: KR> Engines > > > What's happening? Tied tail down with a foot of slack, chocked the wheel s, > ran the engine up to 3000RPM and the tail did not lift,..... stick full > forward._Rechecked elevator travel, Okay, redid weight and balance, CG at > forward limit._Got about 5 hours taxi time, up to about 35 MPH, still not > light on the stick. ____________________________ > > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net<mailto:krnet-le...@mylist.net> > > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html<http://www.krnet.org/info.html> > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net<mailto:krnet-le...@mylist.net> > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html<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
