KR> Belly board

2014-12-26 Thread sparksfly2ms at cox.net
I flew a few hundred hours both ways and the holes did seem to form more drag. Sparky Sparks Sent from Windows Mail From: Kenneth Wiltrout via KRnet Sent: ?Friday?, ?December? ?26?, ?2014 ?3?:?23? ?PM To: KRnet I tested the board both ways. The holes seem to help slow it down.Ken

KR> Belly board

2014-12-26 Thread Kenneth Wiltrout
I tested the board both ways. The holes seem to help slow it down.Kenny WiltroutN6399U On Friday, December 26, 2014 12:47 PM, Dan Branstrom via KRnet wrote: I always wondered about the holes in a belly board.? The T-28s I flew had them on the belly mounted speed brake that was fl

KR> Touchdown Speeds?

2014-12-26 Thread John Bouyea
What kinds of speeds are people using to land their KRs? Jones just wrote ". and when the wheels touch the pavement I am doing 70 MPH ." That seems fast, no? Trying to reduce my PIOs on short final. John Bouyea N5391M/ KR2 OR81/ Hillsboro, OR

KR> Belly Board

2014-12-26 Thread Mark Jones
YHa. I just returned from a 1.2 hour flight around Steven Point, WI. This was my first flight since 10/25 due to our shi&&y weather we have up here. So what does this have to do with belly boards? Here is how I use mine in the landing sequence. I called left downwind 21 Stevens P

KR> Belly board

2014-12-26 Thread Dan Branstrom
I always wondered about the holes in a belly board. The T-28s I flew had them on the belly mounted speed brake that was flush with the fuselage when retracted. I could only imagine that the holes gave it greater drag because of conflicting vortices generated by the holes. At the KR gathering,

KR> Belly Board

2014-12-26 Thread Oscar Zuniga
Keep it up and somebody's going to make a pair of matching boards, one solid and one perf'd, and run a comparison test ;o) Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR

KR> Belly Board

2014-12-26 Thread Flesner
> I can't image more deflection than with a solid piece I don't follow the "more deflection" line of thought. Do you mean "more drag" ? I've always had a gut feeling the holes created more drag if the Navy used them. My advise is : on the heavie

KR> Dipole Antenna

2014-12-26 Thread Mark Langford
On 12/25/2014 10:50 PM, Sid Wood via KRnet wrote: > Any dipole antenna design that requires ferrite toroids is wasting > transmitter power due to the mismatch between the rf cable and the > antenna elements. Maybe so, but Jim Weir has been advocating this design for probably 30 years, lots of th