KR> Stick imbalance

2014-11-07 Thread John Bouyea
During my entire flight today, I had to hold forward pressure on the stick. This made my takeoff more exciting than it needed to be while I figured that issue out. Landing became more an issue of reducing some forward pressure as opposed to increasing back pressure. I'll head into published reading

KR> "First" Flight Report

2014-11-07 Thread John Bouyea
Well, it finally came together for me. N5391M made its second flight this afternoon. I'm not counting the "other" first flight a few years ago because the landing wasn't so good. Anyway after 2 PIO excursions on takeoff, I had a pretty nice .9 hour ride from my 2000' grass strip OR81 to MMV, site o

KR> Part 2 - Baked Lycoming

2014-11-07 Thread Jeff Scott
We left part 1 of this tail with a repaired Cub after my friend in his Speedy RV-8 zoomed off to fetch parts to repair the Cub. I was off to the Copperstate to enjoy sunshine and airplanes. About 50 miles out of St Johns, AZ, I hear my buddy in the RV-8 call that he was returning to St Johns d

KR> Part 1 - Flutter

2014-11-07 Thread Jeff Scott
Things have been a bit quiet on here for a while, so I'll relate a couple of stories I was involved in a couple of weeks ago. Part 1 - Flutter I flew my SuperCub to Casa Grande, AZ for the Copperstate Fly In a couple of weeks ago. Note that my SuperCub is amateur built and has a trim tab on th