Check out Fisher Flying. They are putting together a 80hp electric with battery and controller for maybe 10 grand
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 8, 2022, at 3:37 PM, Randall Smith via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> > wrote: > > Until he popped up with my name I wasn't gonna say anything. I would not > waste my time with that Subaru. Les had a total of about an 4 1/2 hours on > his KR I had about 60 hours on it. He had troubles with a reddrive it could > never produce the horsepower it says it's supposed to produce. the radiator > takes up a lot of space so there's a lot of drag through the cowing. it's > heavy once you add everything up including the water. I sold it to a guy down > south of Waco I believe somewhere around Georgetown and I know he had a > problem an the engine quit and he put it in a pasture I don't know what > happened to it after that. Les was a Tinker and he was really good at it. But > he could never get that thing to perform like it was supposed to. I would fly > it for an hour or two and he'd work on it for a week or two. I flew it to one > or two flyings. and I believe he trailered it to two of them. > > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Apr 8, 2022, at 10:34 AM, Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote: >>> >>> Arie Post wrote: >>> >>> I did come across another article on the site by Les Palmer. >>> He also has an EA 81 sitting in front of his KR 2 there. >>> He seems to have flown with it. >>> What about him, is he still flying it? >>> Could I possibly receive his email address? >>> I also came across an article by Ken Thomas. >>> He is flying a Subaru EA 82 there, what about him? >> >> Ken removed the Subaru and installed a Jabiru. I don't know the details of >> why, but it's not uncommon. My thought when it had a Subaru in it was that >> it looked like it had a filing cabinet or a small refrigerator under the >> cowling! The water cooling system takes a lot of space. Ken is long gone, >> but I saw his airplane in a photo of what I believe was an Alabama hangar >> that had been hit by a tornado. I'll leave the Les Palmer KR to Randy, who >> has flown it, and is likely still on KRnet. >> >> Steve Makish and Bob Lester both built planes with Subarus, and later >> swapped them out with Corvairs. Their advice was that the Subarus would >> pound out the crankshaft bores (like VWs do after many years using the stock >> crankshaft). Corvairs don't have that problem, although I realize that >> Corvair engines are not widely available outside of the US. >> >> Mark Langford >> m...@n56ml.com >> http://www.n56ml.com >> Huntsville, AL >> >> -- >> KRnet mailing list >> KRnet@list.krnet.org >> https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet > > -- > KRnet mailing list > KRnet@list.krnet.org > https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet -- KRnet mailing list KRnet@list.krnet.org https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet
