KRnetHeads,

I've taken the last two weeks off to do nothing but work on the plane, and if I 
have my way, I'll take this week off and maybe fly it before the week's out.  
In the last 14 days I've put 172 hours into the plane.  I spent most of today 
wiring up the limit switch and DPDT switch for my flap motor.  You ain't seen 
nothin' 'til you've seen 30 degrees of barndoor flaps on a KR!  It takes four 
seconds to go from zero to 30 degrees using an RV flap motor.  That ought to be 
fast enough.

Most normal people would put the thing on a trailer, but being a lazy scud, I 
just removed the tailwheel and replaced it with the hitch from my Harbor 
Freight trailer.  It took all of 2 minutes to hitch the KR to the Audi and haul 
it away on its main gear, although I'll admit that I never got over 35 mph on 
the 10 mile drive to the airport.  See 
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/05051551m.jpg for further amusement . 

These are "plane ports", the only thing available at MDQ right now.  I'm 
starting out there because they have a 100' wide 5000 foot runway surrounded by 
fields, as opposed to Hazel Green (M38), which has a 40' wide runway that's 
only 2700' long (although that's where I'll keep it after I get skilled enough 
to get it in there).  The wings are now stuck on it, and now all I have to do 
is rig the ailerons and I'll start taxi testing in the morning. The engine's 
running great and I've pretty much finished up all the little things on that 
punch list.  

I feel a YeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaa comin' on...

Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
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