So in theory you could fly that thing tomorrow morning! This is really getting exciting now. I see visions of dozens of KR heads running home after work to check their email for the flight report.
May your skies be blue and please keep the ble side up. Brian Kraut Engineering Alternatives, Inc. www.engalt.com -----Original Message----- From: krnet-bounces+brian.kraut=engalt....@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-bounces+brian.kraut=engalt....@mylist.net]On Behalf Of Mark Langford Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 11:38 PM To: KRnet Subject: KR> project update 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________ 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
