----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bray" <rsb...@hotmail.com> To: <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 5:53 PM Subject: RE: KR> transporting a KR2S boat
>I hauled my KR-2 from Southeastern Idaho to Las Vegas inside a U-Haul truck >sitting on top of all of my household goods. Once I got it down here, I >moved it across town to Henderson on top of my old Mercury station wagon >tied down to the luggage rack ...no problems. One other note of interest; I met another airplane builder/pilot when he seen my car going down the road with a funny looking boat on top of it. He followed me to my new home and introduced himself. We became good friends and eventually ended up living on the same street with one house between us. Ken Mintz, N86KM (vari-eze) is an a/p and EAA designee and has been a lot of help. He also is thinking of building a KR-1 that he has had plans for since the early 70's. On another note that has been making the rounds on the KR circuit concerning learning to fly the KR. I was lucky enough to have a lot of dry lakes here in southern Nevada when I was getting ready to fly N54PB. I taxied my bird on the dry lake for about 15 hours before lifting her off for the first flight on Dec.7, 1991. I had never landed or taken off in a tail dragger solo before my first flight. I did have allot of time in tail draggers with friends and I had about 4000 hours of F4 flight simulator time as well as time in 727s, L-1011s, DC-8 and DC-9 Sims.. I think the simulator time in the F4's helped allot with the sensitivity issue and the taxi time helped a lot for getting the feel of the controls and the ground handling of the KR. The nice thing about the dry lake is that I was not confined to a narrow runway and it was plenty long in all directions. Also there was very little air traffic to worry about. I have heard pros and cons to the taxing issue, I just think that if you have a dry lake close by it is well worth utilizing it. Practice getting the tail up, applying the brakes, checking out the acceleration, and braking distance. All this helps feeling out the aircraft before actually flying it. One note of caution, make sure your bird is in a flying condition in case you accidentally get to fast and break ground. I hope this information is of some use to someone and remember your results may vary but this was my results and I me and N54PB are still here in one piece. Happy and safe flying to all. Isn't it great to live in this great country, may God continue to bless us and the USA. Parley Byington N54PB par...@anv.net Henderson Nevada USA
