KR> Folding Wing Brackets

2008-10-12 Thread Phillip Matheson
I found a simple Folding Wing bracket at the Australian an Air Show. The partly built Aussie design PT-3 has the same WAF as the KR . They have designed a very simple 4130 sliding tube and locking device, so one person can release the wing and fold it back I added a Link on my web page, in the con

KR> Folding Wing Brackets

2008-10-12 Thread Dennis Mingear
Thanks Phil, nice post, great pictures. I've seen this method employed on several different aircraft. Didn't someone named Robert Moore use this technique and even market the idea to KR builders some eons ago. Denny Phillip Matheson wrote: I found a simple Folding Wing bracket at the Australia

KR> Folding Wing Brackets

2008-10-12 Thread patric...@usfamily.net
The problem I see with this type of folding wing is that you still have to remove all of the WAF bolts to fold the wings. My idea is to have the WAF's wrap around the spar with a door hinge type piece where the bolts go through and instead of bolting the wings together with horizontal bolt

KR> Folding Wing Brackets

2008-10-12 Thread Phillip Matheson
Pat wrote The problem I see with this type of folding wing is that you still have to remove all of the WAF bolts to fold the wings. - Pat, it is only 8 bolts to undo. The plan on the plane used bolts with nuts and safety pins, much easier to undo, then lock nuts. You can use

KR> Folding Wing Brackets

2008-10-12 Thread F Ross
Thanks Phil, nice photos, too. Some more ideas may be available from a photo I took of the folding wings on a sailplane at Oshkosh a couple of years ago. See the photo at: http://photos.yahoo.com/alamokr2 Click on the "Aviation" album, scroll down to the last photo, number 63. Double click on the p

KR> Folding Wing Brackets

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Jacobs
The partly built Aussie design PT-3 has the same WAF as the KR Hey Phil I have some info on the TP3 designed by Thomas Philippa in 2001, but lost contact with Murray Gill (Oz) who was my connection. I heard later that he went back to school to study philosophy or something. Do

KR> Folding Wing Brackets

2008-10-12 Thread Ron Freiberger
Phil Matheson's Pics are very helpful, but I cannot see the 4th view. The sliding tube portion was also used on the Bowers Flybaby, and is very useful. With only the tube, you need a friend, but that's not hard to find. On the flybaby, the tube was 3/4 inch aluminum, which was adequate. Ron Fr