> All that in a Pietenpol and you did what?
>
> "I saw that the wind was starting to move on the ground"
>
> You can see the wind!
wind sock you silly boy
>
> That is as bad as my wife "hearing footprints".
we speak the same language
>
> good work!
>
> Chris
>
Yea, I know I left out a lot of details but hey I only had 5 min. to get
a message written. Any way to fill in some of the details:
Plane -- KR2S-- tri gear
Engine-- 3100 cc corvair
carb-- 38 mm aerocarb
empty weight-- 724#
prop-- Sterba 58 x 64
highest RPM in flight today--- 3250
flight duration -- 37 min.
And for all the guys that have said that their first landings were their
best -- I sure hope that I don't have to claim that because I'm pretty
sure that I beat the runway into submission. No , I didn't have to go
back and clean anything off the runway either.
As for things I need to do it is a fairly short list right now. A
rudder trim tab is needed to reduce work load. Airspeed seems to indicate
about 8 mph faster than the gps. The nose wheel shimmied on landing, but
I think that was more a function of the speed and force that we hit the
ground at. I need to adjust the gain on the hot mic of the radio. The
last one that concerns me the most is a vibration that I had that did not
show up until in flight and is definitely rpm related. I will try
rotating the prop 180 deg first.
Things I loved -- This is the first lane that I have flown with a
stick between the legs and I was instantly comfortable with it. I did not
have to think about what I wanted to do it just seemed natural. The power
the engine produces is nothing short of incredible. The jumps in air
speed could be 20 or 30 mph in just seconds. Climb was the same way - a
300'/min decent can be turned into a 500'/min climb in just seconds.
The plane is rock solid in pitch and roll. I didn't do much and
certainly was not aggressive but when a turn was made it stayed on
altitude and bank with only rudder needed to keep the ball centered. Yet
the plane is extremely responsive. The flying qualities are from the
start here everything that I had ever hoped for.
The elevator trim is also very sensitive and needed very tiny movement to
bring the plane into trim. For those that don't know I have a stock to
plans tail feathers with the exception of the incidence which if I
remember correctly is about -.7 deg. The wing is the new airfoil at 0 deg
(I think)
Like others have said before me -- Keep working at your dream- I
can not think of a higher achievement in my life that I would not trade
for love or money.
Joe Horton, Coopersburg, PA.
joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
