I wasn't going to say anything about the canopy, But when you say Mark is wrong and you are not flying yet I can't resist. I had a KR-2 With a bubble canopy that you could see out the back(if you could figure out how to turn around in a KR) and I was about 10 mph slower than the KRs with the high back. We taped yarn on the back of the canopy and turtle deck and the yarn went everyway but back. My KR-2 weighed 525 lbs with an O-200.
--- Steve Jacobs <st...@johnmartin.co.za> wrote: > > > Reducing the taper to resemble a bubble will cost > you in performance in > > the > > form of drag on the back of the canopy. That's > probably why the KR2 went > > to > > the straight turtledeck. And plexiglas is > probably heavier than your > > average turtledeck material per square foot. > > +++++++++++++++ > > Not sure that's right Mark - refer the 240 mph > (2,000lb) GP4, T18 and > Mustang II plus any number of modern designs that > have concave curves in all > planes. (Apogee??) > > > > > _______________________________________ > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
