Back in the early 80's I had my first KR ramped here at KSEE while doing some wing tank repair. While working on it one day, someone who had been driving down the nearby road came running over to ask me all kinds of questions about the plane. This fellow turned out to be Louie Brochetti, a boat builder. He had no experience with planes or with flying as I recall, but he was a master of fiberglass work and this fiberglass plane (they weren't that common back in the 80's) really caught his interest.
So he built one. His was one of the earliest fixed gear models around these parts. Most KR's were retractables back then. He did a beautiful job on it. Sparky did the first flight, as he has done on so many KR's over the years. Louie had a brake lock up and ran it off the runway when doing some of his early flights. I left the country about then so don't know exactly how it all evolved, but he ended up selling it to a local pilot who flew it quite a bit and then re-sold it to someone up in Oregon. Story was they crashed and totalled it on the way back to Oregon, however it must have been rebuilt since this is the same airplane that's once again run off the runway at Oceano. It was converted to tricycle gear somewhere along the way. Louie's old plane lives on . . . ! Mike KSEE ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4dd2ccfa896e498ccfst02vuc
