Gary said, "I did join because of your mailing. Didn't know KRnet existed before. Other than RM, which I owned for a while, I have never seen another KR. Living in Northern California, the gathering is a long ways away. Probably would have done it when I was younger and had more time. I Still feel the KR ll is the simplest, fastest, cheapest, prettiest, airplane ever built."
I guess you mean you owned Roy Marsh's plane? Are you the last owner before it went to Australia? Jim Evens used to be based up there with his turbocharged non-stop flyer to Oshkosh every year. He used to race it once there. He had a Maloof on his Revmaster but it eventually broke and caused a forced landing. The Maloofs only broke (two or three times) on the turbocharged Revmasters but Joe stopped installing them. Re Gatherings near NorCal, there was one in Chino and a really fantastic one in McMinnville that you recently missed. McMinnville was fantastic to me aniyway since September in East County San Diego is dry and hot and brown and usually having Santa Ana's that drive some people to suicide. To take off from a brown desert where I live and land the next morning in a green paradise with water literally everywhere, was a really memorable Gathering. Watching the top of Mt. Shasta turning gold as the sun came up was just part of the treat. It was right outside the canopy. Made me think how much harder it would be to climb to the top instead of flying so easily by, calmly admiring the snow & icy rock. Looked cold but beautiful.. My cockpit heat kept me nice and warm around that memorable mountain and I probably had a much better view than if I had climbed it by foot, like John Muir once did and I suppose hundreds of others since. I've heard flying saucers go in and out below that mountain . . . that natives have been watching them for generations.. Mt. Vernon is also a green and moist Gathering place and so convenient. West Coast Gatherings, like Watsonville, would be nice for a Spring Gathering if enough KR's are left out west that are still flying. At one time it was a hotbed of KR building, flying and fly-ins. Steve Bennett flew that little KR-1 "BabY" all the way out here and barely made it over the Rocky Mountains down at the bottom. Dan Diehl was flying wing and kept an eye on him. Sparky loaned him a propeller to help get him back home. I think he only had the little 36 HP VW in that plane. Ken Rand being in Huntington Beach was the focal point for KR building and flying, but then that was true for all the Rutan too, back at the same time. I think Steve Glover's right hand man moved from Chino to Scaled Composites in Mojave a couple years ago, so all the KR business fell on just Steve and he couldn't justify sacrificing his construction business to work the KR business . . . and Jeanette didn't help things I suspect. But I really know nothing. For all I know his KR business is doing fine. I do know there's hugely interesting things going on in Mojave. It would be a great place for a really unusual and interesting Gathering! Tehachapi, not far away, has a great fly-in campground with hot showers and a restaurant. I think sometimes a lot of KR pilots just enjoy flying their planes when they feel like it and don't get interested in gatherings or fly-ins.. I'm planning on flying down to Todos Santos end of November. I'm way behind on my annual, biennial, and my medical expired the end of August so I'm about to get very busy. Last time I tried that trip I did it June before last. I got as far as San Felipe before the idiocy of flying into Baja in the summertime dawned on me. This next trip will be better timed. It's beautiful down there in November. Mike KSEE ____________________________________________________________ Kelly Ripa Finally Confirms The Rumors track.volutrk.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5bb9b07ac64b3307a6e03st03vuc _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
