The cockpit appears to be same dimensions as Ken Cottle's design on my KR-1½. 24 inches if I'm remembering correctly.
When I first got the plane it had a Sterba 52x52 prop that would allow the GP-2180 to turn into the 3300's. That would send oil temp through the roof so the only time I used full throttle at low altitude was then. Ever after it had coarser props. The bottom of the wing still had red-white-blue adhesive shelf paper on them which surely looked nice back when Ken was using the plane for flour bombing and airshows but Steve Bennet had never taken the time to take it off and it was ragged and ugly and draggy when I bought the plane from Steve. Naturally the first thing that needed to be done when I got back to San Diego was race Sparky in his N81BP. I remember seeing 177 mph at 2000 feet when we were coming back to Gillespie from Chapter 14's Saturday morning Friendly Fly-In (SDM), this with the normal right quartering headwind from the northwest. Without all that tape-like adhesive hanging along the airflow it surely would have been 5 mph faster. That was the only time I ran the engine that hard. Sparky thought these VW's handle higher RPM's easily and he proved that pretty much with his first KR with the Rex Taylor build. This KR-1½ of Ken's design would probably get close to 200 with a bigger engine since it's frontal mass is so low . . . lower than those with wider fuselages. The canopy came from a Sillohuette, a single-place Pulsar. The KR-100 looks racy though. Where is it? I don't remember. MikeKSEE
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