I have seen a lot of T-Shirts around Oshkosh with printing on them that say :
"My Ex Wife told me to get rid of my airplane, I sure will miss her "
Of course we all have seen those shirts for many years but this year I have
seen the most ever, it started me thinking and wondering if something was
We at Oshkosh are having a great time, at least I am. Today was the KR Forum
headed by the KR Guru Mark Langford. He did a great job as usual explaining
things to prospective KR builders. There were several guys there that usually
go to the Gatherings. Joe Horton, Mark Jones and Mark Langford fl
I was out to my hangar at the airport on Sunday the 26th late in the afternoon
working on the carburetor linkage. It is a slide type carburetor and I've had
some difficulty getting the ratio correct between the length of the throttle
arm on the carb versus the length that the throttle cable wil
The Zodiac 601 is quite nice.
At our local airport there is a 601 and the 2 owners were hesitant to fly it
at first.
But looking at the 601 it is easy to fly out side the flight envelope and
over stress the aircraft.
- easy to exceed VNE (can be done straight and level well before full
throttle is
The question of wing strength in the KR came up from someone misreading a
post a few days ago by a fellow wanting to move to a KR instead of the
Zodiac 601 he's currently building. There have been several crashes of 601s
attributed to structural failure of the wings due to flutter in the ailerons
2.5 years ago I had a forced landing in a field where I hit a contour and
folded the undercarriage. This resulted ion the wing hitting the ground
hard enough to snap the last foot off. After a though inspection the wing
attachment fittings are still perfect and I am re-using them. Where the
wing
I have been around the KR for over 25 years, and have never heard of an
accident where wing failure was the cause or contributed to the accident.
There has always been speculation about the wing attach fittings being the
weak point, but I think that was also proved to be a myth, at last year's
gath
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