Today, I got to take the Black Bird up again, to test out the mod for the oil cooling. It worked exactly as planned. The max OT that I saw was 190, which actually is the minimum for cruise and I kept the RPM between 3000 and 3200. At 3200 Straight and Level, I saw 140 air speed. Certainly that is a preliminary number, but it does give me hope for a fairly fast KR.
The take off was perfect and so were all three of the landings. To bad that I can't get credit for more than one of them. It is interesting that if I hold position when it bounces, it will settle right back in. After the second bounce, I timed the roll out to "tail up", just perfectly. Kind of like 1....2....Tail up and hold. This is only my 4th flight in this bird, but it feels so good and never does anything squirrely. So much for the twitchy" KRs of old. This is a stock KR2, and it is solid as a rock. You don't have to lengthen anything or change anything, you just have to get your CG right. And... I think a little extra weight doesn't hurt the cause at all. I know that is blasphemy to the "keep it light" crew, but this plane flies un-believable good. So good, I wish I could give every KR builder, who thinks the KR is twitchy, a ride, to convince them that it ain t the KR, it is the builder. Oh, did I mention that I LOVE this KR2???? See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics See you at the 2007 - KR Gathering There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for Flying has begun. Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC
