KR> Landing gear

2008-11-14 Thread Tim Kelley
Hi all, Started modifying the latch mechanism on the standard RR retracts this week. With any luck, will have it completed this weekend. Pictures at http://kr2az.spaces.live.com/ Tim Kelley Sahuarita AZ KR2r ( building) Fisher 202 ( flying)

KR> Operating limitations

2008-11-14 Thread Ed Janssen
Netters: I applied for my Light Sport Inspection Rating today at the Springfield, IL, FSDO. They amended my original Experimental Operating Limitations in a few different areas. This one particular change may be of interest to you guys. Of course the required test hours are different for Ex

KR> AS5048 Spar Separation

2008-11-14 Thread Mark Langford
Oh, and one more thing is that during the bending process, the verticals end up "twisted" a little, so that gap tightens up, and you'll probably have to shave a little off of the vertical member that mates up to the front main spar, and also the vertical that faces the aft face of the aft spar.

KR> AS5048 Spar Separation

2008-11-14 Thread Mark Langford
Erik Kline wrote: > the two should be 21.625", not 21.56" right. Upon further inspection > there > should be a 1/32" gap between the main spar and the vertical member behind > it. Adding that to the total gives me 21.65625". I know its splitting > hairs, but it will change how much material co

KR> AS5048 Spar Separation

2008-11-14 Thread Erik Kline
In the drawing for the AS5048 root airfoil, it shows a distance of 21.56" between the main and aft center spars. Looking at my plans, there is a 10.75" bay behind the main spar, followed by another 10.25" bay before the forward vertical member of the aft spar. Now that's 21" for the bays and the

KR> nasty weather picture

2008-11-14 Thread Mark Langford
Jacobe's story reminded me of last weekend. I get a lot of compliments on my cloud and sunset pictures. Last Friday afternoon on my way to Corvair College #12 I took a few cloud photos that I'd rather not have experienced. One of them is at http://home.hiwaay.net:80/~langford/sunsets/08110904

KR> Fun Fri- Better FORMATT Flying home a new Purchase

2008-11-14 Thread ColdLake-Tim
This is from Last weekend> Jacobe Bought his first Midget Mustang and flying the miss-Adventure flying it home>>> I am almost certian I will regret sharing this story online. OK so I bought an MM1 in Texas. I went down there, spent the night, woke up early to fly her home to San Francisco. At

KR> Corvair Engines

2008-11-14 Thread Mark Langford
I forgot to finish the last sentence of what I wrote. I was in the middle of pasting in the link to my Corvair page and decided to move it up into the first paragraph, and forgot to delete this sentence fragment, so you didn't miss anything. But something I do want to mention is that if you're

KR> Fun Friday> Flying home a new Purchase

2008-11-14 Thread ColdLake-Tim
This is from Last weekend> Jacobe Bought his first Midget Mustang and flying it home>>> I am almost certian I will regret sharing this story online. OK so I bought an MM1 in Texas. I went down there, spent the night, woke up early to fly her home to San Francisco. At first light, the seller an

KR> Fun Friday

2008-11-14 Thread Dana Overall
> From: t...@telus.net > What's the scoop? > Inqiuring minds want to know ;-) > CL-Tim See the link below for the full story: http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=30410 For those rather new to this list, we started Fun Friday several years ago. The idea is we reserve Fri

KR> Corvair Engines

2008-11-14 Thread Mark Langford
Neal Hornung wrote: >I happened to see an ad in an advertisers newspaper at work for 2 corvair >engines and wanted to pass the information along to those who might be >interested. For anybody wanting to get into Corvair power, be aware that not just any Corvair engine will do. You don't want

KR> Fun Friday

2008-11-14 Thread ColdLake-Tim
What's the scoop? Inqiuring minds want to know ;-) CL-Tim

KR> Fun Friday

2008-11-14 Thread Dana Overall
I never thought I'd walk out and find this: http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/7715/smash036no7.jpg But here is the state of Black Magic as of this morning. http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8719/wheelpants021yb4.jpg Keep on building you KR guys, or as they say on the Dark Side...keep on

KR> Corvair Engines

2008-11-14 Thread Neal Hornung
I happened to see an ad in an advertisers newspaper at work for 2 corvair engines and wanted to pass the information along to those who might be interested. The ad stated; 2 corvair engines, stored inside, one complete with automatic transmission. The other is missing the carburetor. Both fo