My Kr-2 has Diehl skins. "Power at idle" stalls at about 900 lbs. occur at 50 KIAS. Stalls are proceeded by enough shaking and shuddering for me to notice. The plane is controllable throughout the stall and will recover even with the stick held full aft. The plane has no tendancy to drop a wing. Of course it just stalls again if no action is taken, and each time it stalls, the pitch down is greater and so is the pitch up after recovery. I have held the stick full aft through about 3 or 4 stall and recovery cycles with increasing pitch excursions. I'm guessing these cycles took 2 to 3 seconds each, but I really don't have a clue how accurate that is.
Does the fact that the Diehl wings are longer (and tapered over this additional length) reduce the MAC a small amount and therefore reduce the C.G envelope? Even if true, perhaps it's a small amount. Ken Jones, kenbjo...@cinci.rr.com Sharonville, OH N5834, aka The Porkopolis Flying Pig, KR-2 KHAO 155 Hours ----- Original Message ----- From: "countryhomeprint" <countryhomepr...@bellsouth.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:14 PM Subject: KR> cg with Deihl wing skins > Recently the first flight was made in 880AB. As with most any experimental > aircraft a few problems occur. Question? Is the cg range for Dan Deihl > wing skin wings the same as for the standard KR-2 wings? N880AB's cg falls > within the limits for the standard KR-2, however my KR feels tail heavy. I > am unable to establish a true stall due to the uncontrolled pitching up of > the wings prior to stall. It feels as if the horizontal stab and elevator > are stalling prior to the wings. This happened during the first stall > approach and a stall approach will not happen again until the problem is > solved. Has anyone experienced this? Anyone have a thought as to WHY. This > could be a dangerous situation. > > Bill Page > boliverp...@bellsouth.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
