Hi guys, I too have always really liked Alan's KR styling. I'm sure I have a copy of every copyright-free image to be found on the net. If you're going to have retracts, I can see that having a crushable foam block below the fanny would be a very good move to take some of the cushioning which landing gear would've provided in a belly-plop. Just chatter but marginally related, I used to ride around in ejection seats (not reclined) where flights typically lasted 7-9 hours. I didn't find them particularly uncomfortable but we were warned not to add foam-cushion below our fanny for a better ride. The reason being that during an ejection, the seat would build up substantially more velocity before it adequately pressed against our fannies and we were at greater risk of injury. Back to abrupt stops from forward movement, for those who might wish for something less than an entirely fail-proof harness attachment, one alternative that comes to mind is having multiple attachments per harness ending, in serial. Then have just a little extra belt available between these multiple attachments, say 2". That way you could get a stepped stopping action if they failed in sequence and perhaps the final attachments designed to not fail. Of course you wouldn't want the second pair of attachments to be effected by structure failure for the first set. Regards, Tom
--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Mac McConnell-Wood <macw...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: From: Mac McConnell-Wood <macw...@hotmail.co.uk> Subject: KR> Harness attachments. To: "KR Digest" <kr...@mylist.net> List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 1:52 AM I also remember seeing Alan's KR just after his "unplanned" landing and noted that his landing configuration was more in the vertical mode, so his tail attached harness restraint would not be stressed laterally? She looks terrific,Alan -what type of canopy opening? Regards, Mac G-BVZJ _________________________________________________________________
