Re: KR> Setback

2019-10-11 Thread Sid Wood via KRnet
Mark, I had a similar head room issue with my standard KR-2. I made a new fiberglass seat bottom one inch thick and clears the fuselage bottom by 3/8". To clear the elevator control link, I cut a channel in the middle of the seat pan and closed this cutout top with 0.030" aluminum sheet secur

Re: KR> Setback

2019-10-11 Thread DAVID MULLINS via KRnet
Jeff, Mine is Stretched, Widened, and Taller. So it is a 3XL. Steve Bennett called mine and the KR360, "KRs on Steroids" at the 2002 Gathering in Red Oak, IA. Dave M Nashua, NH > On October 11, 2019 at 1:58 PM Jeff York via KRnet > wrote: > > > Wait. you have done this ( built an airpla

Re: KR> Setback

2019-10-11 Thread Jeff York via KRnet
Wait. you have done this ( built an airplane (KR2s) before) how did that happen ? Ok, rhetorical question. I'm just surprised because your previous bird was well thought out, very well modified and by the way IMHO a great way for every KR2 to be built. I would even call it by a new designation.

KR> . (airfoil templates)

2019-10-11 Thread Flesner via KRnet
On 10/10/2019 11:38 AM, Mark Langford via KRnet wrote: Templates for the new horizontal and vertical stabilizers are located at http://www.krnet.org/as504x/ . See the link near the bottom, named "Free KR2S Airfoil Template Downlaod". Any of the three choices includes tail templates. Incidence

Re: KR> Setback

2019-10-11 Thread Mark Jones via KRnet
Yes. Unfortunately there was no cushion on my seat when I test fitted for headroom so that won’t resolve my dilemma nor will reclining the seat back more as David suggested. It is already too far back for what I really prefer but all of this is worth keeping the deck heights as low as possible f

Re: KR> Setback

2019-10-11 Thread bjoenunley via KRnet
Reply to Mark Jones Head Room :  I had a very comfortable and fancy seat cushion that I through out so that I would have enough head room. Joe Nunley  Baker Florida  null ___ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/

Re: KR> Setback

2019-10-11 Thread DAVID MULLINS via KRnet
Mark, Can you just recline the seat back a little more? I had to do that too, even with the 8" canopy lift on mine. Dave M Nashua, NH > On October 10, 2019 at 4:32 PM Mark Jones via KRnet > wrote: > > > Well I just came across my first major setback on this build. I sat in the > cockpit w