I brought my KR home from Mt.Vernon this afternoon. I'll pull a cylinder this weekend and send it off for repair of the exhaust valve. Flight home was uneventful for me, other than the weak cylinder that I'm guessing is causing my vibration, but not so for my friend in his RV10 that took me to Mt.Vernon. He was running low power as he followed me home and 5 miles from his home airport his engine starting running rough. He was very close to a residential air park with a 2600 foot grass strip so he decided to land there. His engine went dead on short final but he landed safely. He called me to pick him up so I drove to the strip. On my drive to the strip I concluded he had suffered carb ice and not a fouled plug. When I got there he said it was running fine again. He runs a Lycombing 540 which shouldn't be susceptible to icing but today was a perfect day for carb ice. I ran carb heat the entire time from Mt.Vernon. A quick run up and he flew home the last five miles and landed safely.
I guess I'm the last to get the KR home so all is well. See you at Lee Summit next year.
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