I have a taildragger, and I have landed in a 3 point twice, I said that I would never do that again.... until last SAT,,, I will say it again, I will never do that again. period. I have to fly a tric gear tommorow and I just wanted to know what to look for. THANK YOU JIM SELLERS. and Mark Jones you are just wrong on so many levels. The biggest thing that I have noticed is taxiing. with a tail wheel you can steer. Now that the brakes have been bled and work better, so is my taxiing. I have to learn how to T/O and land this plane and deliver it to MN. all in that same weekend.
Thank you for all the input. Lee Van Dyke ----- Original Message ----- From: <laser...@juno.com> To: <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 10:42 PM Subject: KR> tri gear and taildragger > Who on the Net has flown both, and what is the difference???? I helped Jim Morehead with his beautifully built tri-gear a few months ago - did the first flight and several more over two days. My normal steed is Ken Cottle's KR-1½ and my previous KR was also a taildragger - a standard KR - so a taildragger KR is most familiar to me. My taildragger in the three-point attitude is nowhere near the full-stall angle of attack, so I have to land at a speed higher than what I would prefer. With short runways speed control is critical for me. Jim's plane, because the tail is higher off the ground, allowed a much higher angle of attack and slower speed for touching down. The gentle KR wing just settles on at full stall with no sharp break (assuming the plane is built as accurately as Jim's is). You're barely moving when you do it correctly with any wind on the nose at all. Also helping this ability with Jim's plane was his 90º barn door drag flap under the cockpit. His manual extension/retraction mechanism of his own design was very solid and in stark contrast to the flimsy mechanism and shallow drag flap angle that I have. His tri-gear was a joy to land. In my opinion the tri-gear is more fun to land because you can get the nose way up where it's supposed to be when landing. Trying to land like that in my taildragger will hit the tailwheel and then flop the mains down, a technique hard on the tailwheel and just not generally graceful. Mike KSEE ____________________________________________________________ Diet Help Cheap Diet Help Tips. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=Qzpb7r8aFSsHwfFh821wjQAAJ1A9mk8a0luj1TJO2sh3zRLgAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYQAAAAAA= _______________________________________ 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
