John wrote-
>As a group they had expected large increases of drag as a penalty for the
>comfort of
>that extra space where in fact the increased drag was surprisingly little.
Reminds me of the Questair Venture. That fuselage wraps around an IO-550 and
continues to widen on back to a cock
I am at the stage of bending my fuselage and will be giving it a 40"
internal width at the shoulders. Is the general consensus to leave the
bottom of the fuselage the stock width and bend out the top longerons, or to
bend both top and bottom out to the 40" and thus have perfectly vertical
sides?
Darren Crompton wrote: I am at the stage of bending my
fuselage and will be giving it a 40"
internal width at the shoulders. Is the general consensus to leave the
bottom of the fuselage the stock width and bend out the top longerons, or to
bend both top and bottom out to the 40" and thus have
Darren,
I am going to be widening both the top and bottom of my fuselage in
equal amounts. I'm not using the vertical side method rather I am
retaining the slope.
Cheers.
Peter Bancks.
Ballina, NSW.
Oz. Mate.
Darren Crompton wrote:
> I am at the stage of bending my fuselage and will be giving it
I have yet to see a completed KR with vertical sides, so you are still in
the first stages of "experimental" there. So, do you want to experiment, or
build a KR?. Mine was not widened, but if I were to do it, I would add the
same amount of width to the bottom, as I was adding to the top, just to
I just measured mine. Top is 43 inches wide. When I bent the side I let the
stresses pre form the bottom. With a little tweaking the bottom is 37 1/2". I
kept the firewall stock and feel the look still has a stream line look not the
pregnant guppy look.
Steven Phillabaum
KR2S; 5048; corvair;
Darren,
I've gone for 40" internal also, with the widest point where the seat goes
(further back than the plans suggest).
And I've made it 'square' (ie. sides at 90deg to floor). This means that it
was VERY easy to get the top longeron flat, and there's plenty of room
inside. There has been some di
AWHOLE lot less work to make the sides vertical. No
coumpound angles to cut, Virg
On Thu, 10 May 2007 13:08:20 +1000 "Darren Crompton"
writes:
> I am at the stage of bending my fuselage and will be giving it a 40"
> internal width at the shoulders. Is the general consensus to leave
> t
Any "vertical side" KRs flying yet? If not, then why not, since it is so
EASY? Just curious!!
See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics
See you at the 2007 - KR Gathering
There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for Flying
has begun.
Daniel R. Heath - Le
Darren,
I to am doing a wider fuselage and I am planning on keeping the sides
vertical. I made formers to temporarily support the sides while I stood
them up and glued the cross members. I drew the cut lines on the formers
to see if the angled sides was worth the trouble. In my opinion, it
was
Thanks for all the input guys.
After much sucking of teeth I have decided to go with the original shape and
add 4 inches to the top and bottom width. Not too worried about the angled
cuts...what else do I have to do with my time? The firewall will remain
the dimensions as the plans. Have up
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