You guys are really making me feel good about my KR. When I first finished it, my 721# KR was refered to as fat, bloated, overweight and a few other less than kind adjectives despite being a much larger plane than the KRs of that day. Turns out to be right in the same weight class as the two Marks, whom I consider to both be good quality builders, as well as many others. Maybe they meant the pilot was fat, bloated.... ;o)
Keep in mind, those planes will gain weight with age, and in both of the Marks cases, with paint. The last W&B I did had new avionics and a bigger engine, so the plane had grown to 742#. With the modifications I have planned for this summer, it may put on more poundage, but I'm also going to be looking for anyplace that I can shed weight while I work on it. The best place for it to shed weight will probably be the operator in the cockpit. -Jeff Scott -- "Oscar Zuniga" <taildr...@hotmail.com> wrote: Mark L. wrote- >I did my "final" weight and balance Monday. Total empty weight is 732 >pounds So... your airplane came in 39 lbs. lighter than Mark Jones'. At about 8.554 lbs. per gallon of sweat, that's only an additional 4.56 gallons of sweat that you put into lightening N56ML over and above Jones' effort. But if we could quantify all of the neuron-level effort-? ;o)
