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2009-08-07 Thread Pete
See what happens if you go too fast in a KR? You land sometime in the next month. KR's really ARE time machines! Cheers. Peter Bancks. Mark Langford wrote: > > Split flaps have as much lift as plain flaps...so the drag is free! That's > why split flaps are better than a belly board, in my humble

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2009-08-05 Thread Mark Langford
Paul Smith wrote: > I'm retrofitting split flaps into the stub wings attached to the afy spar. > The original stub wings were built without flaps. I believe split flaps > afford a small amount of lift (at lower deployment angles) but produce a > good quantity of drag. Split flaps have as much

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2009-08-05 Thread pk.sm...@bigpond.net.au
Forgot to mention, mine is a Nose-pusher and has good ground clearance at the trailing edge. If you have standard retracts there is minimal clearance here so a belly-board could be an option. There is a builder in England who built a spoiler system into the trailing edge of the stub wings with t

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2009-08-05 Thread pk.sm...@bigpond.net.au
Franco, I'm retrofitting split flaps into the stub wings attached to the afy spar. The original stub wings were built without flaps. I believe split flaps afford a small amount of lift (at lower deployment angles) but produce a good quantity of drag. See photos in my blog http://kr2spacemodulat

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2009-08-05 Thread Larry&Sallie Flesner
> >I need the help of homebuilders of the comunity that can support me >with informations and if possible drawings for an efficienty Speed Brake. >Franco Bucci Adding a speed brake to your KR w

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2009-08-05 Thread Bucci
Good morning, i'm a KR un homebuilder living in Florence, Italy. My KR 2 has over 400 hours of very nice fly, with no problems. Now i'm planning to upgrade my plane with a Speed Brake, because i have not installed flaps in origine. I need the help of homebuilders of the comunity that can support