In doing a thorough inspection (annual) on a single-seat KR with about
1000 hours on it, I came across a truly scary situation. The aluminum
seat bottom had pulled the heads completely off of the attachment screws
securing the front of the seat bottom to the spar. The seat bottom was
hanging by t
This extremely dangerous situation with the seat bottom has existed for
quite some time, judging by the elongated holes in the aluminum and other
wear signs. During that time the plane has gone through a number of
"annuals." It was only due to a great amount of luck and conservative
flying (no hi
laser...@juno.com wrote:
> Ken's original KR had a sidestick with side-routed cables - a really
> excellent design/safety feature in my opinion.
I'm still quite a ways from that point, but I've thought about a
sidestick. Are there pictures or diagrams of such a beast posted on
someone's website
That is one thing that I really like about the carbon fiber seats that are
molded over the top of both the front and back spar. The seat would have to
totally break down for that sort of thing to happen. Several of the
builders have made them, one example is at:
http://krbuilder.org/seats/index.
And Ken had a sling ( cloth ) seat, Virg
>
> As many long-time KR people know, a number of KR's and people have
> been
> lost (and almost lost) to seat failures over the years. This KR
> was
> clearly next in line on that list.
>
> Check your seat attach points! It is apparently
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