Okay, thanks for the details. It'll knock my plane out of the LSA
category but I'm planning to put an in-flight adjustable pitch Ivoprop
on the Corvair when I build this, so I should be able to get a decent
climb rate via some feathering even with heavy loads. I know Ivoprop has
had some issues
Chris Davis wrote:
> I was wondering, what was your climb rate like at that weight? I'd guess
> 500ish fpm?
A little better than that, but not much. Depends on density altitude also,
as well as which prop I had on the plane at the time, of course.
Mark Langford
ML at N56ML.com
website at http
"On the matter of gross weight, 1245 pounds is pushing the limit, but
with a forward CG (use of wing tanks rather than header tank, for
example) and only doing it a few times a year, that's doable. I've
certainly exceeded that on many occasions, and other than the plane
suffering in climb and s
2 Useful Load with 3100cc Corvair
Howdy folks...
This is my first post on this mail list, thank you for letting me join!
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"Steve is great to talk to and was very polite and helpful..."
Yes he is and probably knows more about KR's than anyone. And if you didn't
know next year's gathering will be in Chino and he is the host so it might be
worth the effort to make the trip. Don't know if a date has been set yet but i
You can save quite a bit scratch building. And by the way you can put a KR2
canopy on a KRS2 fuselage. I did it to save Money.
Rob Schmitt
N1852Z
Www.robert7721.com
On Nov 19, 2013, at 7:39 PM, "Mark Langford" wrote:
> Chris Davis wrote:
>
>> Well I'll be building on a pretty tight budget
Chris,
Welcome to the group! I would suggest you checkout Mark Langford's airplane on
the KRNet. I believe he is one of the highest time KR flyers with the 3100cc
Corvair. I would also suggest that this airplane is very adaptable. Show up to
any gathering and no two will be the same. If you ne
I didn't answer your question though. I added your 485 pounds to the empty
weight of my KR2S to get 1245 pounds gross weight. I think that's pretty
realistic. Maybe you can probably shave some off of that, but not a whole
lot. I don't have much of an interior in my plane, and I didn't do any
- Original Message -
From: "Chris"
To: krnet at list.krnet.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:51:22 PM
Subject: KR> KR2 Useful Load with 3100cc Corvair
Howdy folks...
This is my first post on this mail list, thank you for letting me join!
Well my question is
Chris wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. One question though, 1245 lbs? The empty weight of a
> stock KR2S is listed on the site as 520 lbs, assuming they're being
> optimistic about that I'd assume 600lbs being a more realistic empty
> weight.
My plane weighed 760 pounds empty when finished. Alt
Jiro Yamamoto wrote:
>> Is the 5% increase in aircraft weight that use of the corvair engine
>> cause the max gross, empty or what weight are you thinking of? And of
>> that weight increase, is it all the weight of the engine or are there
>> other weight increases in other systems. <<
That w
Thanks for the reply. One question though, 1245 lbs? The empty weight of
a stock KR2S is listed on the site as 520 lbs, assuming they're being
optimistic about that I'd assume 600lbs being a more realistic empty
weight. That plus two 180lb people, plus 30lbs of luggage and 95lbs of
fuel comes t
Chris Davis wrote:
> Well I'll be building on a pretty tight budget, and the airframe kit is
> $2,000 cheaper for the KR2 than the KR2S. I also like the look of the KR2
> more than the KR2S...just a personal preference thing.
I'm not sure why a KR2S airframe kit would cost $2000 more than a KR2
other systems.
thank you
jiro
> From: ml at n56ml.com
> To: krnet at list.krnet.org
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:39:16 -0600
> Subject: Re: KR> KR2 Useful Load with 3100cc Corvair
>
> Chris Davis wrote:
>
> > Well I'll be building on a pretty tight budget, and the
I have some fiberglass parts you might be able to use that won't fit mine.
https://sites.google.com/site/mykr2stretch/
https://sites.google.com/site/mykr2stretch/parts-for-sale
On Nov 19, 2013 4:26 PM, "Chris" wrote:
> Thank you for your wisdom.
>
> I actually just got off the phone with Steve f
Thank you for your wisdom.
I actually just got off the phone with Steve from NVaero's builder
support hotline, and after getting some clarification from him about how
the building from plans process goes with the KR planes, I'm going to do
the plans method after all and build a KR2S. I very lik
t;
> From: "Chris"
> To: krnet at list.krnet.org
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:51:22 PM
> Subject: KR> KR2 Useful Load with 3100cc Corvair
>
> Howdy folks...
>
> This is my first post on this mail list, thank you for letting me join!
>
> Well my question i
> Port Elizabeth
> South Africa
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>
> -Original Message-
> From: KRnet [mailto:krnet-bounces at list.krnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris
> Sent: 19 November, 2013 10:51 PM
> To: krnet at list.krnet.org
> Subject: KR> KR2 Useful Load with 3100cc Corvair
>
Howdy folks...
This is my first post on this mail list, thank you for letting me join!
Well my question is pretty simple. I searched the archive for several
variations of my question and found nothing relevant, so I apologize if
this has been asked before. I plan to build the KR2 (standard KR2,
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