Prior to my first flight I did things similar to what Joe Horton and Mark
Langford report. I did lots of slow speed taxi, then progressively higher
speeds on the runway with many trips up and down the runway with the nose
wheel held varying amounts off the pavement. I fixed lots of gripes betw
KRnetHeads,
At the risk of posting most of today's messages, I wanted to update the
ignition problem on N891JF that kept me from flying to Chino. Joe and I
both were unimpressed with the tiny spark that you almost had to imagine
that you were seeing and hearing at the spark plug. I think it was
To set the toe for the main wheels:
Before I removed the old gear legs, I measured the toe for the main wheels
sitting on the pavement. That was 0 degrees with weight on wheels. Since
the old gear legs were angled aft, I thought the toe would change with
loading on the gear legs. With the pla
I have a set of plans that I no longer need. Contact me at
davesmccauley at comcast.net
Dave McCauley
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Morning Guys,We have been seeing all this information about first flights and
it is all good. But first things first. I don't know where or how but I had
decided to do 10 hours of taxi testing before first flight. Taxi testing is
when I found that the carb did not like ram air. Taxi test is when
If you have a set you'd be willing to part with, please let me know.
Dave Anderson
See http://www.krnet.org/newsletter/ . Numbers 215-266 are now available.
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Mark Langford
ML at N56ML.com
http://www.n56ml.com
Joe wrote made very good points about ironing out the problems during
taxi testing. That's invaluable, and I did that as well, although I
didn't realize it until reading Joe's post. I did about 70 "tail-up"
runs down the runway to get familiar with the transition from flight to
tail-down con
Mark has alot of good pictures about his alignment on his website. ? Here's the
link to it. ?
http://www.n56ml.com/kgear.html
Paul Visk
Belleville Il
618 406 4705
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Original message From: Dave_A via KRnet Date:11/01/
Yoshio Marino is a German KR builder who is unable to post to the list
for some reason, and he has the following questions. He is ready for
first test flights on his KR and requesting further information from Sid
Wood's test flight experience (see below) and is also trying to connect
up with a
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