Jim, Years ago, as you indicate, I was a lot braver and younger too. I used to fly a Warrior back in my home state of Georgia quite regularly. One of my favorite things to do, along with my regular passenger, was to design our own roller coaster in the sky. It was a pure blast to do as you say. We would put the Warrior in a dive and pull it back into a real hard climb and absolutely love the G forces. Then, as the air speed rapidly bled off, I would push the nose over and we too would float out of our seats. Way too cool.....that is till the engine stopped because of fuel starvation. My heart almost stopped the first time it happened. I did not have to do anything to restart the engine since it was windmilling and as soon as fuel hit the plugs, it fired right back up. Needless to say, this happened more than once. Too young and foolish to know any better. It did teach me a thing or two about unusual attitude.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI USA E-mail me at flyk...@wi.rr.com Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj/homepage.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Faughn" <jfau...@socket.net> To: "'KRnet'" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:40 PM Subject: RE: KR> 10G pullout/wing displacement > I must go back in time to years ago when I was younger and much dumber. > In about 1993 I was having a great time in Sullivan MO with my KR. I > would show the plane and I would enjoy doing missed approaches at 200 > mph with about a 3g pull-up and then 800 feet up I would enjoy doing > about a 2g push over and my body would rise up and the seat belt would > hold me down while my headphones would touch the canopy. This was pretty > common during the summer and the group around the airport enjoyed > watching this display of (stupidity????) fun. Then one night in my > dreams I visualized my fuel and figured out that it must be doing the > same thing...... I quit doing the push over on a gravity fed fuel > system. Oh well, youth is youth and stupidity is stupidity. Have fun > with the positive and avoid the negative. > > Jim > 891JF > > Jim Faughn > St. Louis, MO 63108 > Email - sub @ for "at" jfaughn "at" socket.net > Web Site http://jfaughn.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On > Behalf Of Bill Starrs > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:19 PM > To: KRnet > Subject: Re: KR> 10G pullout/wing displacement > > > the acft was good for 4,000 flight hours and "oh by the way" > >the wing tips during a 10 G pullout were displaced up 48 inches without > > >any permanent deformation. Bob Morrissey > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > I recall a time or two in the KR when it seemed like I sucked my seat up > almost that far and it retained it's shape also. The coloring may have > changed a bit though from the light grey it used to be !!! :-) :-) > > Larry Flesner > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
