Hi Rick I would be very interested in seing pictures of your flap arrangement if possible.
Can you please email me some photo's. Thanks you. Gavin Magill Auckland New Zealand (www.kiwikr.co.nz) On 22 August 2010 12:58, R. Human <rahu...@peoplepc.com> wrote: > OK - let me see if I can help. I have a standard KR-2 with flaps. First off > the flaps as built per plans will not pitch the nose down! They do not have > the area to being even close to doing that - about the only thing they can > do for you is marginally help stabilize your air speed on final. I haven't > found any help in deploying them on take-off, the only benefit I have found > is that two notches will help you get the tail up when operating at gross. > Now all that being said I was able to make a rather simple modification > that > probably made my installation twice as effective and that was to add a > center section flap that fills the gap between the flaps across the bottom > of the fuselage. I can supply pics if you wish but it's simplify a piece of > reinforced 1/8" ply that is hinged off of the flaps inboard hinge points > with a third center point added. The ply has tabs on the ends that the > flaps > engage and the center section flap is deployed along with the flaps. I get > about a 6 kt reduction in stall speed with the flaps fully deployed. Larry > is right on his post the only good numbers that are meaningful are going to > be ones you generate in your Phase I testing - Best advice I can give is to > do you initial testing on a 4,000 foot field - I prefer turf myself it's > more forgiving. Then once you have a feel for the airplane shorter fields > become a possibility. > > My apologies for not trimming the original note - but it's seems pertinent > to leave it in its entirety. > > > Rick Human > N202RH > Houston, Tx > > >
