Wow, you experienced losing VW engines 4 times in middle air flying your
KR, and you are still around telling us the stores Mr. Randall?! How did
you manage to survive when you landed in the trees from one of your engine
troubles?
You are nothing short of amazing!!
v/r,
Dr. Hsu
On Fri, Aug 18,
We can guess - or realize that every one of these planes flys differently with
an engine out situation.
Put a pessimistic number in - then do not exceed that until you demonstrate it
to be different.
Actual testing is really the only way to get a "real" glide ratio for YOUR new
plane.
M.
My interest is in gliders: minimum sink occurs just above stall. Longest
glide is just above that. Years ago I took 82JM up high and shut the engine
off. I generated a polar diagram which was published in the old KR
newsletter.
The two memorable things were best glide of 10 to 1 at about 80 mph
I know some people think that they need to know the angle of attack for glide and I guess that does help at times. But when you lose an engine you're going to find you're gonna start pushing that stick until you're flying again and then you're going to see what you're doing. I was not very good wit
I’m just thinking about that openly here so feel free to use this as a
discussion point and work around it. But, The best glide speed is
determined at the best l/d of the airfoil, which is at a specific to that
airfoil angle of attack. It could be anywhere roughly around 2 to 5 degrees
or more, aga
Sam wrote:
I am not sure what the glide speed/ratio would be on a KR2S with the
AS504X airfoil, but I suspect it would be a slightly higher speed, and a
slightly higher glide ratio.
See http://www.n56ml.com/performance/ for aerodynamic testing info on a
KR2S with AS5046 airfoils (N56ML), wit
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