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2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Jacobs
Welcome back Herr Langford What secret bits did you smuggle back for the Sirocco? The following extract from your construction pages (tail feathers): The tapered spars were created on the tablesaw with the same tapering fixture that the newletter printed a few years back. Simply put, it's a stra

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2008-10-12 Thread Mark Langford
Steve Jacobs wrote: > Can you say a bit more here Mark. Any time spent getting this right > will save gobs of time shaping and sanding the spars later (empennage as > well as the wing spars), particularly with the AS sections. I am not > convinced that what I am visualizing is right, i.e. - cutt

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2008-10-12 Thread Dan Heath
Dean, Why did you decide not to use the airfoil on the stab? Your process is well documented on your site. There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for building has expired. See N64KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Then click on the pics Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC See

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2008-10-12 Thread Mac McConnell-Wood
Nice job Dean -I was taught in the dark ages that aerodynamic balance was used to reduce aerodynamic loads.How does this work out where the plane is already sensitive in pitch? - Regards Mac UK From: "Dean Cooper" To: "KRnet" Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 1:2

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2008-10-12 Thread Dean Cooper
Dan wrote: > Why did you decide not to use the airfoil on the stab? Dan, I guess the short answer is personal preference. My "mission statement" for my KR is to build it as stock and light as possible. Besides the engine selection, I am only planning three structural mods: 1) Aerodynamic balan

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2008-10-12 Thread Dean Cooper
Netters, I came home from the Gathering pumped and set out to make good progress on my KR (in between dodging hurricanes). I've spent the last 2 weeks working hard on my horizontal stabilizer. It never goes as fast as you would hope. :-) You can see my progress at: http://www.geocities.com/dj

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2008-10-12 Thread robert glidden
Nice job Dean,I'm rebuilding mine starting tomorrow.They was done using the stock templates.I'm going to give the new templates a try...Bob > Netters, > > I came home from the Gathering pumped and set out to make good progress on > my KR (in between dodging hurricanes). I've spent the last 2 wee