Mark, Your right I really should, but as I said I wimped out as I don't want to end up spinning.
Spin training isn't part of UK PPL sylabus, so I am rather nervous about getting into a situation I can't handle. I still contend that it would be better for our friend to build light with aircraft quality timber than use hemlock and then fix the resultant weight issues. From what I know, hemlock is currently cheap because a lot of trees are being cut down to eradicate some sort of infestation, much of it is not even fit for building, I hope our friend has carefully inspected the wood. A further thought, what does the belly board do to the airflow over the adjacent flaps. I figure a few hours thinking about things may actually save a lot of effort building something that may not work as expected. Old pilots and bold pilots... Pete -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote: Pete Diffey wrote: >Looking at the flaps on my std kr2 I doubt if they do much to stall speed. >Whether the kr2 flaps have any significant effect on stall speed is a moot >point, I doubt if anybody has done any design analysis.< You mean you have flaps installed on your plane and have never done a stall speed test with them retracted and also with them deployed? You have the perfect test device at your disposal, yet haven't actually tested it? Then you have very little useful data to contribute on the issue, I'd say. Analysis and conjecture is one thing, but real-world testing tells the story... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com website at http://www.N56ML.com _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ 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
