Look at the Whisper Motot Glider at http://www.whisperaircraft.com/ for an economical kit glider. I would have bought one except for one small detail, experimental aircraft cannot be used for training or taking paying passengers, and I want to do both so I bought an IS28M2 motor glider.
Regards Regards Barry Kruyssen k...@bigpond.com http://www.users.bigpond.com/kr2/kr2.htm -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Dennis Mingear Sent: Monday, 19 March 2007 11:43 PM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> moto-glider The KR-1B uses longer wings but they cannot be used on a two place KR. The spar and wing attach fittings would have to be redesigned. I've done a lot of thinking about a "Xenos" type clone based on a KR-2S fuselage. It would be a lot of work, like a redesigned wing with glider like spar stubs that overlap and pin to a spar box in the fuselage and increasing the size (area) of the vertical stabilizer some. A Touring type of motorglider would be easiest to achieve by using a wing that's in the mid 30's, say 36 feet in span. If you left the horizontal stab alone, you would also probably need a new airfoil for the wing, one with a smaller pitching moment. The neat thing though is that once you were done and it was time to go soaring, you could simply adjust the L/D of your new motorglider with the throttle and you could have everything from a Duo Discus to a S 1-23 in performance. A wing like the Europa glider wing would mean a redesign of everything, may as well try and find a Europa kit and go at it, probably be easier, not that my "Touring Glider" concept would be "easy" to accomplish! lol! It certainly wouldn't be a KR anymore though! Denny ...
