KR3 was supposed to be a float plane, right?
On 5/29/2012 6:36 AM, Nerobro wrote:
> The KR3 already happened. And it didn't end well. :-) going to LSA specs
> would be an interesting exercise. I wonder what a LSA wing would look
> like. People would need to be a lot more careful about airframe weight.
> On May 29, 2012 5:45 AM, "Jim Kendrick"<jim.kendrick1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tom,
>>
>> You pose some interesting points and would like to hear some others to see
>> if there is an interest for us old coots too .... But maybe its time for a
>> KR3 ?
>>
>> Jim Kendrick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Tom<thomas.garne...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim Kendrick asked about a super Kr2 becoming an LSA? I have asked the
>>> same question Jim. Having been retired for more than a decade from a 45
>>> year wonderful career in Architecture, I certainly am not qualified to
>>> design the main wing spar for a longer span for the outer wing panel for
>>> the Kr. At one time, Rand designed outer wing panels for the Kr-1 to
>> make
>>> it into a glider, but I never saw or understood what kind of loads it
>> would
>>> carry. In looking at some of the newest LSA designs for sale in Sport
>>> aviation, they have wing spans of around thirty feet for the thirteen
>>> hundred gross weight. I have not seen what airfoils these designs use,
>> but
>>> there are several in EAA books that would certainly could be used to Slow
>>> it down, Match the required stall at gross, etc. We old coots that could
>>> fly LSA, might be able to get back into the air? I said it before, some
>> of
>>> you young engineer types come up with wing designs and plans, we will buy
>>> them. These airplanes all have hershy bar wings.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> on a different thought about Kr-2 pitch sensitive control, there is an
>>> article in January 1988 Sport aviation, that is worth reading before the
>>> first flight of a new Kr-2. EAA Members can access past articles on the
>>> internet, if you can remember all the pass words. Two things that stood
>>> out for me as note worthy are, tail wheel training is necessary, and the
>>> top of control stick only moves at a one half inch radius circle!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom Garner in Nashville
>>>
>>> EAA 90944
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