I had the same thing happen many years ago while doing a first flight on a
friends KR-2.
Ran good on the ground and on climb out but, when I picked up speed, it would
just die
down. Landed Ok. It was a Posa carb and was adjusted lean on the ground but
when we
picked up speed, the ram air made
I wrote:
> hangar. What we figured out was that the high inlet pressure into carb
> throat had introduced a higher pressure into the float bowl vent.
Sorrythat "float bowl vent" is nonsense, as the Posa doesn't have a
floator a float bowl! I wrote that before I realized it was a P
Larry Flesner wrote:
> I'm wondering if this is something I want to be flying behind at my
Just a remindermake dang sure it will run wide open for at half a
minute before you commit to a takeoff! If it'll do that, you'll
probably get enough altitude to turn back, especially if you climb
On 4/18/2020 6:04 PM, Flesner via KRnet wrote:
Larry
you are correct. I got rid of the fuel pump for gravity flow alone
before I ever got the plane out of the work shop. I have a fuel
pressure guage and the header tank keeps the areo carb happy all the
time between .7 # and 1.2#
Joe Horton
There are a few builders still active. I'm one of them. The designer, Scott
Watts, is absent and slows progress quite a bitas there are my design gaps.
I've finished construction and am now in the "hook-up" phase. I'd like to get
the beast ready by fall. We'll see how that goes.
Dave McCauley
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