Hi Netters, Yippieyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally my KR made its first flight. Today August 30th, 2006 , after 10 years of building my KR2S (PH-KRS) made its first flight. Take a look at : http://home.tiscali.nl/~driessen2/ for some pics. Duration of the flight was aprox. 35 minutes. The plane flies great. The PH-KRS is the third flying KR in the Netherlands. What is bothering me is the fact that my engine isn't performing as expected. I am using a GP 2180 with a 54x42 Sterba prop. Static rpm on the ground is 3050. During climb at 70 kts rpm is only 30 rpm higher (3080). During level flight at full throttle at 120 kts rpm is only 3180 . A prop with 42-pitch should give an excelent climb performance. The actual climb performance is very poor. At level flight I would expect to have to reduce throttle to prevent the engine running at a too hight rpm. Actually rpm increases to a maximum of 3180 which from my opinion is way too low for this low pitch. Does anyone of you with the same setup have a simillar experience ? What did you do to increase max. rpm ? Tomorrow I will do some more testing. Thanks and regards, Marcel Driessen Meerlo, The Netherlands PS: Mark Langford: could you please place my homepage to the "completed KR's". Thanks.
