Congrats on the awesome plane Mark... ! some day soon I'll be there. -Jeff
-Jeff Wilder CISSP,CCE,C/EH -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/CM/CS/O d- s:+ a C+++ UH++ P L++ E- w-- N+++ o-- K- w O- M-- V-- PS+ PE- Y++ PGP++ t+ 5- X-- R* tv b++ DI++ D++ G e* h--- r- y+++* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ >From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> >Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> >To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> >Subject: KR> 100 hours on the KR today >Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:15:37 -0600 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from lizard.esosoft.net ([38.118.200.18]) by >bay0-mc2-f17.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sun, 18 >Dec 2005 20:15:34 -0800 >Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lizard.esosoft.net)by >lizard.esosoft.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43)id 1EoCQv-0009q8-CG; Sun, 18 Dec >2005 20:15:33 -0800 >Received: from smtp.knology.net ([24.214.63.101])by lizard.esosoft.net with >smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoCQa-0009pz-Qsfor kr...@mylist.net; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 >20:15:13 -0800 >Received: (qmail 6671 invoked by uid 0); 19 Dec 2005 04:13:02 -0000 >Received: from unknown (HELO 2600xp) (69.73.127.55)by smtp5.knology.net >with SMTP; 19 Dec 2005 04:13:02 -0000 >X-Message-Info: SuyIeF3cBu/ouP/D23obGljU1v4zztTXB2pheDBv4Rc= >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 >X-BeenThere: kr...@mylist.net >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 >Precedence: list >List-Id: KRnet <krnet.mylist.net> >List-Unsubscribe: ><http://mylist.net/listinfo/krnet>,<mailto:krnet-requ...@mylist.net?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://mylist.net/private/krnet> >List-Post: <mailto:kr...@mylist.net> >List-Help: <mailto:krnet-requ...@mylist.net?subject=help> >List-Subscribe: ><http://mylist.net/listinfo/krnet>,<mailto:krnet-requ...@mylist.net?subject=subscribe> >Errors-To: krnet-boun...@mylist.net >Return-Path: krnet-boun...@mylist.net >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Dec 2005 04:15:34.0756 (UTC) >FILETIME=[DBC49240:01C60452] > >KRnetHeads, > >I hit 100 hours in the KR today, during another 2.5 hour tour of local >airports. First to Guntersville, where I circled an old friend's house for >a few minutes taking pictures. I'll send him one with his Christmas card >to >let him know the plane is finished. Then a few landings at Guntersville >airport, and then north to Fayetteville, TN, where I did about 12 more >touch >and goes. I was the only guy there so I was just whipping around the >pattern. I punched the stopwatch on one run, and without doing anything >spectacular, did a pattern in less than three minutes, takeoff to takeoff. >That's hummin' in my book! Except for landings, I've been flying the thing >wide open most of the time. Towards the end I just bummed around a while >and looked at stuff on the ground, and then back to Hazel Green. Changed >the oil and washed the plane, ready for the cross country to my father's >farm for Christmas (although I plan to fly some more this week). > >The engine is still running great, although I have a small oil leak that >I'm >too lazy to fix. The new oil cooler inlet was a big improvement. I'm >finally starting to feel like I know how to land this thing. As I was >getting out of the plane I said out loud, "I'm a KR PILOT now"... > >Mark Langford, Harvest, AL >see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com >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