THAT is a very good question! Each of us has to answer that question Before we start to build. Myself, I want a speedy plane, able to carry 2 FAA-normal persons, capable of 500 mile cross country day trips or overnights. Not really looking for aerobatic capability, as much as I like watching others demonstrate the edge of their plane's envelope. There are several designs that fit that mission, but NONE are as cheap as the KR series. All the other designs that fit that mission, are much more expensive to tool up for, more costly to operate and maintain, and take literally years longer (and often tens of thousands more $$ to build). As for G forces and feelings of safety, if the design meets my above criteria, I'm fine and feel safe without parachutes, ballistic chutes or the like. I observe that most pilots like myself feel plenty safe without those, and those way-out-there- on-the bell-curve accidents seem more like random acts of God, borrowing that phrase from insurance companies. Griff R Pickett KLXT
-----Original Message----- From: costewart23 <costewar...@frontier.com> Sent: Monday, November 8, 2021 8:56 AM To: KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> Subject: KR>Re: G forces My question is are we building these for aerobatics? Or a speedy little point A to B plane? Or... just weekend flyer? I very studied this plane for almost 25 years and started building one this spring, my intentions is a speedy little plane that will get me to point A to B, not to do loops and rolls and stress the airframe to 3-4 G's I dont think Ken Rand intended for us to subject that kind of load on the KR. Just my opinion Chris Stewart- "long way away from retirement" -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.krnet.org%2Finfo.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7C94ba2eca08314d54d8fc08d9a2c7e064%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637719801609945148%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=lxI%2FmU83iWQ9RFH23nUxCeFnofb68%2FyxJMKVlTr1Bto%3D&reserved=0 -Change list delivery options at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flist.krnet.org%2Flist%2Fkrnet.list.krnet.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C94ba2eca08314d54d8fc08d9a2c7e064%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637719801609945148%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=IRpNg13f%2FOUbSZJyqMcxAtsZCuVPfU0Kr%2Fb4on4aGVk%3D&reserved=0 Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flist.krnet.org%2Fempathy%2Flist%2Fkrnet.list.krnet.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C94ba2eca08314d54d8fc08d9a2c7e064%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637719801609955144%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=fDCDl324%2FOB2v3eX9JAPz3zrQcq95Wjn0KTeimPdap8%3D&reserved=0 -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Fkrnet%40list.krnet.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C94ba2eca08314d54d8fc08d9a2c7e064%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637719801609955144%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=bZy7dkB4bhrKsDhsw1jGEw4jV6xTltD7wRgu49FfP3Y%3D&reserved=0 ________________________________ -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/
