So,
I figured the guy was feeling pretty bad, he was in the rear seat, wife in
the front.
It seemed to me he'll be having flashbacks and nightmares enough, even if I
said nothing about it.
So I let him off completely, if he has any conscience at all he'll suffer
enough.
It was weird, I thought
Is there a way to detect a defective WAF? Scratch resistance? Hardness
testing?
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It seems you are referring to a crimped terminal that includes a crimped in
place strain relief that crimps down upon the insulation.
I have always found these difficult to find so have a substitute method:
Use an otherwise suitable single crimp connnector, crimp in place and fill
the crimp with
Landing with a stopped prop is different. I had an instructor who would
have me practice that in a C150.
The thing I did not expect that stood out was it took effort to stop the
prop. Even with no fuel it would windmill, producing more drag.
To stop it we'd have to nose up until near stall to r
I read this, which is excellent work.
1. I removed all devices connected to the Avionics switch (lit with an LED
> indicator) which is the culprit.
> 2. I disconnected the wire supplying power to that switch (the switch
> status is off) from the power buss.
> 3. Then turned the switch on
> 4. I
Hi all,
I read something about an avionics power connection arcing upon contact
during troubleshooting.
Most electronics products, like radios, transponders, electronic digital
devices all have input power filters designed to limit input power voltage
variations. Sometimes we ET's call the undes
With/without trailer?
In/out of inspection?
JG..
On Sun, Jul 14, 2024, 7:00 AM Rene Ffrench via KRnet
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> Hello KR-Team,
>
> It's been a fun ride and still very interesting to read of all the
> progress and discovery that the "Family" is having. But Time and Medical
> issues have caug
>
> Mark,
I missed it or missed somethings? Is your Globe Swift still in hand? Air
worthy?
Sorry, working more than full time for 30+ years means I cannot catch every
event.
I have bounced in and out of "certificated airplanes", so am familiar with
some issues.
.
Just curious how is the Globe
My mom wanted her ashes spread by her pilot sons over Mount Rainier.
I took 2 heavey paper grocery bags and cut them at the glued seam and cut
away the floor of the bags to make a flat sheet of heavy craft paper. I
folded the craft paper sheets along two parallel lines to make a paper
trough. Gl
My current "nose dragger" (tricycle gear) factory built plane has a
castering nosewheel without any steering linkages, so the Only way to steer
it is by dragging a brake, right brake: right turn, left brake: left turn.
On a long taxi straight away on a taxiway pitched to one side for drainage
ther
Since it is mentioned... How about a West Coast gathering?
8W5 comes to mind since I live here.
I can put up 6 folk on my boat at the marina... there are the marina heads
and 2 bathrooms on the boat.
Maybe a couple more in the hangar and a few in an RV on the grounds here.
Hangar has a 3/4 bat
Arkansas? I am feeling a touch of envy. I bought an airplane in Arkansas
after driving all over that state shopping them.
Beautiful countryside. Everyone I met were very polite. Don't remember
seeing any graffiti or trash, tents, etc.
Seattle and around it has gone to hell. Having moved deepe
All my planes have leaked this way intermittently.
My first plane, C172 did this before I got it home the first time.
Probably all older planes do this, I would expect. I have had those drain
valves replaced on all my planes but they still leak intermittently
because, I suppose, any tank and or
High speed flutter..
I too have seen it in action, it's too fast to react to. The one I
witnessed only took one second of elevater flutter before all the tail
planes on one side had departed the aircraft. Only a short section of the
left side horizontal stab spar remained. Everything on that sid
Rather than "looking it up", perhaps actual measurement is in order.
I have the great planes 2180 with a rayjay turbo. I set up a graduated
container, with calibration marks as the test fuel tank, and ran the motor
at full power, while measuring the actual consumption.
Certainly other methods of
"hits an obstruction" is what happened to me, the obstruction being a tube
of the diehl motor mount.
My great planes 2180 with the diehl case and mount, diehl puck drive for
the mag. For me it **just barely** hit the correct timing as it hit the
motor mount tube. Trying it 180 degrees over would
mine has one mag and one electric... as I recall the mag has the impulse
coupling, have to start mag only, and anyway the mag hits the motor mount
just as it comes into the right spot for advance. I can't adjust it too
far.
pretty sure it is the slotted puck slick unit.
jg
On Thu, Jan 4, 202
Yep.
On Fri, Nov 3, 2023, 07:00 Myron Freeman via KRnet
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> And thus the reason for the Free Bird.
>
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2023, 9:52 AM John Gotschall via KRnet <
> krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote:
>
>> I viewed the agreement as written acknowledgement of existing copyr
I viewed the agreement as written acknowledgement of existing copyright
law, with the added restriction of 1 set of plans per plane.
Breach of contract (the agreement to build one plane per plan set) would be
enforced by civil action taken by the copyright holder and beneficiary of
that covenant t
I am interested in the complete kr2s plans set.
I have a kr2, and two sets of licensed planes with reciepts, one built, one
not.
I hope to build or buy a kr2s in the future.
price is always a consideration, of course.
thanks
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This happened when I answered a question on quora.
a fun aviation related story.
https://www.quora.com/Pilots-what-s-the-funniest-conversation-you-ve-had-with-air-traffic-control/answer/John-Gotschall-2?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=60847183305
cheers!
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> I have taken to using GPS to measure speed. Direct read on a calm day,
opposing passes on a day with wind.
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I switched in 1992. To Linux, never looked back. My Android phone is
Linux also. So is Chrome OS.
It is complex and strange, not at all simple, like my Lake LA 4 amphibian.
jg
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 05:46 John Price via KRnet
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> I did a complete OS/hardware switch and went Apple. iOS
Now I am gonna hafta go pull a couple of plugs outta one cylinder of my
great plains 2180 and see what they are.
jg
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 10:59 Chris Gardiner wrote:
> Hi Sam
> My dual plug VW 2180 from Great Plains has 14mm on top and 10mm on the
> lower plugs.
> Your guy is correct that the
I've definitely got things against my embezzler ex wife.
Jg
> Nothing against ex wives but hey.
>
> Larry Flesner
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Thanks again..
Someday I hope to get a chance to play with one of those systems (like make
one and do a buncha experiments.)
jg
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 18:38 Mark Langford wrote:
> John Gotschall wrote:
>
> >>So it helped with detonation, and cleans things.
> Power improvement was more the si
Thanks Mark,
So it helped with detonation, and cleans things.
Power improvement was more the side effect of less detonation and being
able to operate where detonation had been a problem?
I mean it wasn't a power increase like raising the boost on a turbo charger
system?
When switched on does rp
Has anyone here operated such a a system?
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I live in a rain forest.
It rains A LOT.
Also the humidity of course hits 100% often (hence precip).
Anyway, as teenagers we all knew our cars had more power during the
monsoons, and that water on the roadways made for extra fun with the
performance boost!
When I mentioned it to my dad he said
So my vw by great planes has a battery/electronic ignition set forever to
27 degrees btdc, as I recall, and a magneto for the other ignition system,
also set to 27 degrees btdc, but the magneto has something I think called
an impulse coupling that causes the mag to fire after tdc at cranking rpm
sp
My great plains motor has a spinning permanent magnet assembly and a fixed
coil assembly.
The permanent magnets are stuck on full time, full blast, not variable like
an automotive alternator, so not controllable in that way.
The wired must be connected to a rectifier, yes, but then the available
Which, by the way, is exactly why my "avionics master" is off during
starting of the engine
jg
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 20:00 wrote:
> Hi Mark. From my experience with 60's and 70's automotive Ignition
> Switches, the (ACC) essories terminal goes dead ( loses the 12 volts) when
> the switc
So I believe what the gentleman said about making some subsection more
ridged shifts loads elsewherrthat would have been taken up in flexation
away from the flexed area and moves them to some other portion of the
structure.
I used to own a cessna 172. Great airplane. My first owned airworthy
ai
Being curious what was being sold, I bought a cd of "kr plans" off ebay,
but found it was a digitized cooy of only the building manual. I
complained because plans include drawings of the parts to be fabricated and
those drawings were misssing.
I was refunded by ebay, the seller did not refund, b
My cousin Ken died while flying the Alaskan bush pilot life. He made a bad
landing in a 172 on floats, survived the crash but died in the ice water.
The folks on shore could see Ken and his passenger climb onto one of the
still floating airplane floats, but it was still too cold and too far away.
My cousin Ken died while flying the Alaskan bush pilot life. He made a bad
landing in a 172 on floats, survived the crash but died in the ice water.
The folks on shore could see Ken and his passenger climb onto one of the
still floating airplane floats, but it was still too cold and too far away.
So,
All planes I have own and flown has this happen, the hatch, door, latch
finds a way to open on it's own. 2 certified, 1 experimental.
I have often carried a bungee to hold it from unlatching.
I own a kr I have never flown. I will be needing a really safe can't
wiggle loose solution..
My o
thanks Mark,
So as I am reading it the rear of the canopy is the area being lifted in
flight so in my 3d imagination I am visualizing a strap affair above and
outside the bulk of the canopy structure, built into and not protruding,
terminating at the bottom on both sides with "live or die" qualit
So does anyone know are the failures with canopy latches becoming unlatched
or are these something like frame failure, or delamination at the
plexiglass events?
Some mix of the above?
Should my canopy construction include a carbon fiber or kevlar single
direction strip on the outside of the canop
Spin a KR2?
Hasn't at least one life been lost from spin testing a KR2?
jg
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 05:36 victor taylor via KRnet
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> I wouldn’t spin a KR at all. It may not come out.
>
> In regards to the Blue foam we still slurry it on all composite airplanes
> to prevent delamination.
Yep,
Running anything at 100% load rating seems less safe than running it at
1/10th of the load rating as suggested here.
Someone I think mentioned the failure mode of this type silicon device is
that it will short circuit. I agree, shorting is the more common failure
mode in my experience. Bac
So I think someone said they had seen one of those big recifiers failed in
a golf cart charger?
I can imagine that, a 50 amp rectifier running near 50 amps pushing a golf
cart battery might fail. I have never been tasked to repair a golf cart
charger. The larger battery and lift fork truck charg
allows me to refocus on it. So, I am relearning and
> learning all things KR. I am still balancing the father thing as well as
> career but at a better place. So, I have lots o dumb questions to ask.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 7:11 AM John Gotschall via KRnet <
> kr
n Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 7:23 PM John Gotschall via KRnet <
> krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote:
>
>> You can use this (or two diodes, but this is probably more robust and
>> cheaper) to "steer" the electric power to the ignition system from the
>> regular and backup pow
Gee whiz Steve,
Don't mince words, tell us how you Really feel.
jg
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 19:41 Steve G. via KRnet wrote:
> Craig, It’s pretty funny you still fail to acknowledge the fact that you
> screwed up on your rebuild of the airplane and it was your poor building
> habits that brought
I have a GPAS 2180 with a rayjay equipped (turbo normalized) manifold set.
Has anyone ever attempted using a trickle of high pressure cooled oil from
the output of the pool cooler to trickle "cooling oil" across the hotter
cylinder head components?
Heads have hot parts, cooled oil is available, w
There are a bunch of lean of peak videos on you tube, I have watched a
bunch and read alot.
I don't do it the way I was taught in flight training circa 1992 any more.
That was too rich too often.
I am full rich for only the take off and initial climb out nowadays.
I don't taxi rich either.
I wi
So,
I earlier mentioned polysulfide sealant is FAA approved for fuel contact in
my Lake Amphibian. After making that post I read about automotive fuel
tank sealants, there are several.
Certainly they are not so rigorously tested as FAA approved products, but
it seems the manufacturer intends tho
I have an aluminum tank that was welded and leaked. A tiny pinhole. Built
by someone else.
At the time I did not have experience with or equipment for aluminum
welding, so I drained it, filled it with water, drained it again and went
about aluminum brazing to fix the pinhole. Similar to your que
It is a series of 6 pfd files comprising only a digitized building manual.
no plans sheets.
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Hi all,
I have a set of kr 2 plans with original reciept signed by Jeaneane Rand
(sp?), never built. These predate any kr2s plans.
I bought them over a decade ago from a local builder who would not continue
to build, but moved to a Zenith. I wanted them to augment the worn
originals for N611GB
I bought a Lake seaplane in Searcy AK, that's a coincidence. Is this a
2S?, been shopping for one of those.
thanks
On Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 20:05 Flesner via KRnet : Jack Daugherty is selling
a project for a friend of his. It is located in Searcy Arkansas.
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I still have not made a first landing in a kr. Mine is still a project,
probably beause there are so many opportunities to fly things that are
already airworthy.
But I did get some right seat stick time in a std kr2 with a natural
aspirated vw 2180, dragonfly canopy and a navy pilot owner in the
I vote for engine power. Nothing much happens without that.
;^)
Jg
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 8:51 AM Mark Jones via KRnet
wrote:
> Ground effect on take off roll between horizontal stabilizer and the
> ground.
>
> Mark Jones
> Oldsmar, Fl
>
> N771MJ “WunderBird”
> www.flykr2s.com
> flyk...@gmai
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 8:51 AM Mark Jones via KRnet
wrote:
> Ground effect on take off roll between horizontal stabilizer and the
> ground.
>
> Mark Jones
> Oldsmar, Fl
>
> N771MJ “WunderBird”
> www.flykr2s.com
> flyk...@gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Jul 19, 2022, at 9:38 AM, Flesner via KRnet
> wrote:
>
Did I miss the asking price?
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Hi all,
Quite a bit of commentary about risk, system failure etc.
So I am convinced everything will fail sooner than later. I make my living
on failing machines, so I may appear a pessimist about machines, or an
optimist about future employment fixing them. On the upside there is so
much failed
energy absorption are
> all factors. I can no longer do the math, but this us why balancing
> controls and respecting VNE are so important.
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2022, 6:37 PM John Gotschall via KRnet <
> krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote:
>
>> thanks.
>>
>> I have o
gt; *Sent: *Wednesday, May 25, 2022 10:34 AM
> *To: *krnet@list.krnet.org
> *Cc: *Ted Sanders
> *Subject: *KRnet> Flight Corvair for sale
>
>
>
> I have a flight corvair available for sale. If anyone is interested I can
> provide details of the rebuild and photos.
how much does the boat weigh? maybe I came hang it from the cieling in my
hangar.
thx
jg
On Fri, Jun 3, 2022, 17:37 wrote:
> I heard from the seller yesterday. He’s reduced the asking price to $1800
> and wants to have it gone by the end of June.
> Contact Patrick (the owner) directly at pm
Can anyone recommend a good book or source for info on how to calculate the
correct control balances for a variety of wing/horizontal stab types?
jg
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Here we are Josh and I, Josh filming.
As we do a touch and go on lake Cushman sw of Seattle last summer in my
LA-4 N1120L
https://youtu.be/IH1rC0DDna0
This gets my adrenaline pumping!
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About wire.
A great video about things going awry:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsqe3utT6rs
I have seen so many things break or fail it's what I make a living from.
Engineers, manufacturers, sales people and government regulators have all
done their best then when the damn thing is deployed an
May I chime in here?
when I was a teenager I was known by my peers for being that kid who built
his own stereo power amplifiers from scratch (not kits).
Later for Magnolia Hi-Fi audio/video I opened staffed and trained
installers for 6 new car audio install shops as I had 7 years full time of
ins
Hi,
So whilst 15 years younger I bought a kr2 project and a new 2180vw
conversion from Steve at Great Plains. I told him I would be turbocharging
it.
I found used revmaster turbo manifolds, a rayjay turvocharger, and used
dual revmaster oil pump.
I got it all together and ran it a buncha times.
Hey all, thanks for the input (s), I am learning a lot, fast.
Somehow 12 years back it was hard to get a word. Now whole chapters are
free it seems
Learned a ton in the last few days, thanks!
Gonna go ahead with the automated boost limiting waste gate, and also I
think keep trying to work o
I have been dreaming of cracking this nut for decades, yet only TODAY did I
ever see revmaster's turbo 2100cc horsepower/boost graph!
mine is 2180 so might be off a tad, but Revmaster did a lot of testing,
then put the test setup in the attic. Years later I asked and they dug out
the test manifol
Is there anyone out there besides me still running a rayjay turbo on a vw
2180 vw aero conversion?
So I have not flown mine yet. I bought a generic exhaust waste gate and am
having trouble figuring how to cause it to limit boost to around 33"
mercury absolute.
Has anyone done this?
I know this
Are there any wing plans like the 1b available for low speed/high lifting
load wings that would fit a stock kr2? I suppose there are other things
like rudder area that would have to be changed...
Heck maybe someone has an unfinished pair for sale?
thanks
jg
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Hi all,
I could just remove the existing horizontal stab and elevator (mostly) and
rebuild by on the fly engineering to make it wider (8 feet),you know:
just wing it.
ok (yes those were intentional),
seriously this retrofit must have been done a buncha times..
Are there any plans for th
oops. sorry.
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Thanks Mark, that copy works for me
jg
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I tried several different word processors including word and could not open
the document, well one opened it as buggered up plain text.
Corrupted was the message. I am sure it's just a formating/version issue.
I wonder if someone who has successfully opened it with their software
might open it a
I have a kr2, 2180 turbo, I have never flown it. It needs work.
It is on stock gear.
I have built and flown many shapes and sizes RC models over the decades, I
can sort of just tell by looking at the airframe, weight, and balance how
it will likely handle in flight.
So every time I get the urge
I would like to find tricycle gear for N611GB Gerald Bates KR2. The stock
gear just does not ring my bell.
In case some are lying about unused...
jg
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I am confused.
When you export a plane aren't you supposed to surrender registration and
Airworthiness cert?
also before re-registering supposed to deregister and release the foriegn
airworthiness?
is the slight of hand here due to never gaining foreign ops?
Supposed to do it in order me think
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