Hi Oz, I'm just getting fully re-established at home after a great gathering. It sure was fun even though weather prevented me from bringing 133RM to Mt. Vernon. Hopefully next year I can get it to a Gathering with better conditions and more experience. I am very lucky to have the opportunity to care for 133RM. Bruce Utting and I decided it needed to come back to the USA where Roy built it. Bruce worked untold hours to help me get it ready for its return trip across the Pacific. Since then, I've spent over 400 hours fixing problems from lack of use and 2 trips over the ocean. But what a reward I've received! It is still a beautiful airplane and I'm the lucky sod who gets to see it in my hangar. Better yet, it flies like a dream! I spent time putting together several web pages and you can read more about the whole story here; http://bouyea.net/cur_proj/N133RM John Bouyea N133RM KR-2S OR81/ Hillsboro, OR PS I'd love to visit you in Medford sometime...
From: Jeff Scott Subject: Re: KR> N133RM That's been a well guarded secret for a couple of years. Too bad the weather prevented him from bringing it to Mt Vernon. John's got a story to tell about importing the plane back to the states and getting the N number back. If you were here, you could have seen the slide show and talk... It wasn't easy, but now we have a licensed importer in our ranks! -Jeff > From: "Oscar Zuniga" <taildr...@hotmail.com> > > Wait. WHAT-??!! Bou, you're the owner of the one and only, iconic, poster-child, Roy Marsh's KR2S?? How in the world did you finagle that? Last I heard, it had been purchased by someone in Australia or New Zealand and had left the country. > > My understanding was that three-three-Romeo-Mike wasn't a true prototype of the -2S because it used the NACA 23012 airfoil and had some other serious mods that didn't represent what the plans showed. Popular lore also has it that the the cruise speed performance of 3RM demonstrated the number that Rand Robinson used in the promo literature for it. Rarely achieved, but some have hit that magic 180 MPH number in cruise. > > Well, you've got a little piece of history there. Probably good that you take care of it. > > Oscar Zuniga > Medford, OR > Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power _______________________________________________ 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
