Myron, I was telling Larry about my early encounters with Dan Diehl and N4DD.
He lives in Jenks OK, I lived in Broken Arrow, OK. Riverside Airport in South
Tulsa is where he was/is based forever. One day (circa 1985 or so) he flew N4DD
to my home base Harvey Young Airport (IH6) for a fly-in. The worst airport
anyone can fly into... anyway he ran over one of the runway lights that was
hidden in the tall grass and put a hole in the leading edge of a wing... well
he jumped out with a patch of fiberglass, sandpaper, and epoxy, and repaired
the wing right there... We were so impressed with this tiny airplane (I had a
Cherokee 180 at the time)... and that's when I decided that if fate would have
it, I would someday build a KR2...
Funny the things one remembers...
Luis R Claudio N8981S, KR2S. Dallas, Texas
On Saturday, January 8, 2022, 11:40:02 AM CST, Myron Freeman
<mfreeman1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, I still think of that every day, what a shame. 15 seconds earlier or
later and I probably would have been just fine.
There was a lot of history in that plane.
On Fri, Jan 7, 2022, 2:31 PM Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote:
> N4DD had a very hard landing at Mt Vernon, "flown" by the owner at the
> time, Myron Freeman. Your confusion is probably that both airplanes
> were KR2's, similar in paint scheme. N4DD was completely destroyed,
> N891JF was barely damaged.
>
> N357CJ is Joe Horton's plane. All he was saying is that his plane was
> somehow picked up just flying over my incident, and apparently was
> associated with the "crash" (forced landing in a Wisconsin bean/corn
> field), which was Jim Faughn's N891JF plane that I put there after
> sucking an exhaust valve and instant VW engine failure. Not much of a
> "crash", I broke the prop and damaged the wheel pants and tailwheel,
> mowed down 11 rows of corn at 60 mph, but didn't even scratch the paint
> on the wings. I was trying to make a 3000' long grass strip after
> climbing out from OSH, and I made it by gliding several miles, but when
> I got there it was planted in corn, so given 15 more seconds of flying
> time remaining, I chose the very short bean field that led to a
> different corn field....with 7' tall corn. Not bad stuff to land in, in
> hindsight.....
>
> Mark Langford
> m...@n56ml.com
> http://www.n56ml.com
> Huntsville, AL
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