fatal accident...(28/October/2021)- South Africa :A private Rand Robinson KR-2, registration ZS-UKU, impacted the terrain under unknown circumstances in Tshwane, South Africa. The sole pilot(Neville Ferreira) onboard was fatally injured.Preliminary information says the aircraft suffered an inflight failure of one of the wings, Guys its been a tough week and I know we all worried that we are next, but I do believe this issue needs to come to an end! Yes UKU had a good run built by some of the best(Sakkie Halgreen) flown by the lucky and unfortunately gave up at her age.
Neville Ferreira was an amazing pilot and a great asset to the experimental community.If there was one guy that could get the most out of a plane this was him! We all have our 5c worth of info,ideas and theory. The time has come to stop the negative. Get into your KR flying or not and to be thankful for living the live. "Everybody dies but not everybody lives" On Monday, 8 November 2021, 15:48:39 SAST, Flesner <fles...@frontier.com> wrote: On 11/8/2021 3:41 AM, Stef den Boer via KRnet wrote: > I am still a relaxed pilot but sometimes when I with 2 pax (1150 LBS) we pull > 3 G. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Stef, It takes some rather aggressive flying to pull 3 G's. What types of maneuvers are you doing? The only way to know what your bird will handle is to test it but you certainly don't want to test it to destruction. You know you're safe to 3 G's at 1150 so if you stay below that in the future you know you're safe. To test for higher G's you'd want to wear a chute but what's your chance of getting out of the plane in case of failure? If you have a forward tip canopy chances are slim. If you built you KR to plans you're probably safe enough. I think they will find things in the SA crash that are out of the envelope. Larry Flesner ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/