Mark There is a flyin two miles south of the 35 mile marker on I-40 appx.35 miles west of Jackson, Tennessee today Eat at 4pm. Hwy 59. Grass strip 2500+ and smooth,122.9. Avoid the house near the lake,noise. Wilders strip. or something that sounds like that, farm strip. You'll come... Steve Bray Jackson, Tennessee
>From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> >Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> >To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> >Subject: Re: KR> KR Gathering ---Homecoming? >Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:22:25 -0500 > >Steve Eberhart wrote: > > > Hi Bob, you too? My ride with Marty was one non-stop roller coaster > > ride. He kept his hand about two inches over mine and kept dropping it > > to stabilize the stick. That was my first KR ride. Not the way to gain > > new builders IMHO. > >But now there's the "next generation KR", which an 11 year old girl who's >never flown anything can fly immediately with no PIOs. Even Bob Glidden >can >handle it! If you build a KR2S there's no reason to fret over first >flights >anymore. Especially if you make the CG "non-volatile" like I did. > >I'm definitely up for the California Gathering. Claire and I have been >planning a desert flight for years now. Like I said, would you want to >miss >the California Gathering? > >I did about 20 takeoffs and landings yesterday, the last 5 being landbacks >simulating emergency landings. I made the first four easily, which were >from 500' AGL, but couldn't handle the 400' attempt. Now I know what my >limits are. This dictates that I fly off to the right (in LP traffic) so >that when I do the 180 I don't have to do much of an S turn. I'm sure my >flight instructor would not approve of me not following the centerline, and >I'm sure that violates somebody's idea of a regulation or good flying >habit, >but that's the way I'm going to do it until I get over 500'. And today I >did about 10 more touch-and-go's. I was able to land and break ground >again >before I got to the "target point" (I'm sure somebody objects to that as >well, and I don't care), and played around the local area, just throttled >back and looking at stuff on the ground. I did some more stalls at various >speeds and configurations (like during a full blown slip to see how much I >can get away with on landing). I parked it with 299.1 hours on it. I may >have to break 300 tomorrow... > >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
