Hi there Jean-Charles.
No one would build a KR aircraft just like or as close to the original Ken Rand
aircraft, these days. The materials available now are so much better.
The glass cloth we now use is a German cloth called 92/125 for most with the
lighter 92/110. We use resin L295
Blue Styr
I bought a new starter ring and coil last year. The wires coming off the coil
had a plug already on it. I matched it to a Harley Davison voltage regulator
that you can get off ebay.
https://sunwayautoparts.com/product-item/voltage-regulator-for-harley-davidson-softail-1450-springer-smr33/
Hope
Hi Phil,
Can you just clear up for me and possibly for all your thinking and reasoning...
Why would you want to increase the angle of attack with your main wheels on the
runway? When you take off, you push the stick forward to get the tail off the
ground and lessen the angle of attack to reduce
I've built, rebuilt and been the over signing inspector on countless Taylor
Monoplanes and built and over signed many KR2. Looking at the KR1, the wing
attachments, contols and dimensions are identical. The 5/8th spruce and ply
skin construction is identical. The KR1 is basically a Taylor Monop
Yes but why bother? Its 45 hp, blows up every 100 hours or seizes. It only
weighs 80 lb, so it's too light to create the correct forward empty C of G. You
would have to add 100 lb of lead in the engine bay to balance the aircraft,
which does away with any benefit of weight saving.
So yes you c
Hi Jamie,
With regards to solid proven advice, I can solidly say, I didn't extend the fin
forward. I don't have any stability issues so my advice is that there is no
need to extend the fin. But if you want to extend forward the fin an inch or
two, I can't see any harm.
But I am blue in the fac
Hi there.
Yes indeed, the KR1 fuselage width and the KR2 fuselage width to tailplane
ratio are I believe very different.
The KR1 tailplane width from memory, 72 inches wide. KR1 fuselage width
approximately 28 inches. Ratio 2.6 / 1
KR2 tailplane width from memory, 72 inches wide. KR2 fuselage
st four gallons for
the header tank in case of an electrical failure.
Fly safe!
Victor Taylor
On Jan 10, 2023, at 07:04, colin hales via KRnet
mailto:krnet@list.krnet.org>> wrote:
Hi there,
I've been reading the "How much fuel" issue for a few days now. There are a few
fa
Hi there,
I've been reading the "How much fuel" issue for a few days now. There are a few
factors I think are missing that might need to be added into the stirring pot.
First some necessary background information. My KR2 is just a standard KR2 and
certainly not specifically designed for long d
I've read all the brake fluid communications. There still seems some confusion
that does need clearing up, or mistakes might happen. If you know all, this you
can stop reading and press delete. If not then read on...
There are six (6) different types of brake and hydraulic fluid. Each of them
Can I bite too. Ive just read:
I'm a U.S. citizen and can come home when money runs out. EVERYthing over
there is inordinately expensive (compared to the U.S.). They HAVE to have
semi-socialist governments if their citizens are to survive.
Yep everything over here is so inordinately expensiv
I know this is not how you should fly or a good example of good practices, so
please don't have a go at me. But I was blagging my way towards China trying to
cross through Russia anyhow I could and some people say it's interesting. I was
lucky again or was I making my own luck? The video link is
I have a decent pneumatic tail wheel and tail wheel steering is excellent and
that means full power can be applied immediately. This actually decreases
take-off distance quite a surprising amount as the tail wheel lifts earlier,
reducing drag from the wheel and profile drag reduces also, which i
If I land gently and then hit the brakes hard, I sometimes need full back stick
almost immediately to balance the forward rotation around the axles due to the
braking effect. It depends how good your brakes are and the runway condition.
As the speed decreases, the main lifting effect of the cent
Yes, sounds like a good idea. Don't forget to drill all the hinge holes where
you think they will need to go and place all the captive nuts on the back of
both pieces of wood before you place them into the foam on the wings and glass
over them. Including where you are going to fit the aileron
I've got Mike Whitakers stress calculations for the KR2S. He went through the
whole aircraft including the seatbelt shoulder attachments.
I wrote about this about a year ago. He found the weakest part of the aircraft
is the top skin between the spars of the stub wing. It needs two layers of
gla
I keep my gob shut mostly, unless I read something that's just so obviously
wrong and damming to anyone who might read it and get the wrong idea about this
wonderful aircraft we all built.
I read these words...
(Those first KR's had a reputation for stick sensitivity. They did fly fine
with o
The whole idea about small aircraft is, to get them to perform you keep them
light! To add a heavy weight on an electric motor to move the C of G around
doesn't help with keeping the aircraft light. That is why no one does this. Why
would you want to add weight??? Just have space on the rear par
Hi Craig,
There was a discussion on here a few months ago about springs or not to spring.
Consensus was NOT TO spring. Supercubs or any aircraft with a large rudder
that can have effect at low speeds have springs as you may be able to apply
effective rudder while the tailwheel is pointing in a
Blimey, that is a scary thing to have to report over the radio, that your
controls are iced up. I wondered how people could know this is what happened...
But he said it over the radio.
Yep, I had quite a bit or rime ice, but everything was still moving freely.
Wow.
RIP Ken.
Thanks for the sad re
KR2 don't seem vulnerable to ice. I was heavily iced up flying to Japan, till I
ditched the IFR flight plan and went VFR along the coast to get out of the snow
clouds and melt the build up. The ice seemed to make no significant
deterioration to flight characteristics or performance. No idea what
I've read lots about stability and landing.
I have a stock KR2. It's fine
You don't need to extend the fuselage length or put a bigger tailplane on to
make it more stable. Those people who say there KR" is unstable haven't got it
set up right with respect to the C of G. Just make sure your
When building my kr2, I took seat design very seriously. I knew well a
professor at my local gliding club, who was on the European board for aviation
safety with regards to gliders in particular. I went to him with my seat design
and I planed to make it colapsible, so if there were any major imp
In Britain, we build the KR using blue Styrofoam as it is better, being
stronger and more resilient to compression fractures and delaminations from the
glass skin. Trouble is, fuel melts the Styrofoam, so we can't have fuel in the
wings in any way, as a fuel leak would lead to failure of the win
Hi there all,
You know me well by now, I don't comment on much, just glad to read through the
trials and tribulations we all went through while building and flying our
planes. But when I read something that is just plain wrong, bad advice, then I
have to speak up, as bad advice helps no one, in
With respect to the strength of the KR2 and KR2S, we had a stress analyst carry
out in depth calculations on the whole airframe many years ago.
The stress analyst's report is intellectual property, but I'm sure by now the
gent who paid for the calculations shouldn't mind if I release the informa
Thanks for all the advice on the spars. The problem I have is that I'm British.
Now being British isn't the problem exactly as its a wonderful thing! We are
mostly well educated, civilised, understand irony, are humourous, don't take
ourselves too seriously and have a national health service. Bu
Hi there all.
I'm trying to acquire spruce to remake the centre section main spars of my
damaged KR2
2.160 inch by 2 inch by 84 inches.
Spruce and Spec don't carry it anymore. They have everything else but nothing
close to the '2 inch plus' square top and bottom main spar caps. I've got
feel
Grass Runways.
Information about landing on grass runways... Having big tyres helps especially
on the tail. A pneumatic tyre gives better grip than a hard small tyre that
just skips around on the surface. The shortest distance my KR2 landed in was
1,350 feet 450 meters, the runway was 1,380 fe
IFR,
My wooden prop has a brass leading edge, many wooden props come with some type
of leading edge protection. All the Hoffman and MT props do as well. The
Hercules props have a composite leading edge. I flew IFR for many hours with no
problems. Also, just because you are in cloud, it doesn't
Well that only took 7 months.
Now we wait on the weather...
Colin.
Subject: RE: 127条について
１２７条の申請について、新潟〜岡南の区間は下記のとおり許可
しましたので、お知らせします。
許可日（approval date）：2017.7.5
許可番号（approval number）：国空国第1551号 RJSN〜RJBK
鹿児島空港及び那覇空港との調整が完了しましたら、お知らせ下さい。
Dear Captain Colin
Colin again.
They say there are no dumb questions, well I just asked one. Sorry and yes,
thank you John Bouyea, for your fast and absolutely accurate response and the
humour too. It made me laugh and I haven't done much of that recently.
But, 'Deep breath in', its been a long day, if you put t
Colin Hales here,
I've been asked to display my plane in a hall and they asked me, how much space
does it take up? The sort of dumb question you should know and apparently "Not
a lot!" is not accurate enough for them.. The plane is 400 k away at the moment
and I don't have a tape measure anywa
>From Colin Hales Kr2 Worldtour.
The petition is going well. Thanks to anyone who signed it.
To answer one question. I don't think the JCAB have any outside connections
with home built aircraft organisations anywhere outside Japan, full stop. So
neither the LAA or EAA can have any influence o
Colin Hales Online Petition for KR2 Worldtour...
Hi all,
Sorry to fill your inbox up twice in a week, but now I have to submit new
documents to the JCAB who like me, have been let down by the Japanese Flight
Permission Agents also. They were supposed to help, but after months of simply
wast
Colin hales
Subject: Not Flying in Japan
The latest.
The British Embassy were doing a very good job of helping me with my
application paperwork, even though they are very busy because it is raining
North Korean Missiles around here. But the JCAB did not like my hand writing
style. (Honest, th
While everyone is barking on about what fluid to use in a compass, there was
not sufficient good advice given to Bob R. on which Nico Press sleeves to use,
far more critical and important.
Bob, there is only one Nico press sleeve material you can use. They have to be
made of copper end of... So
We can but hope! We are close but no banana as yet.
When I arrived, the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau told me that my aircraft was
not allowed to fly outside the UK and I would have to take it apart and ship it
home... Asking them "How did I get it here then?" created silence.
The Chief of the
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