Get your flame throwers ready. First, how many of you have ever seen a KR and thought, when you looked at it, "what ugly aileron balancing, that is". Anyone? I thought so. I have been to several gatherings and seen quite a few KRs and I can't recall ever thinking anything about the aileron balance weight, until Jim Faughn dropped one last year. Even then, my thoughts were not about, ugly or not, but about safety. I look at pictures of the Little Beast that I used to have and never see those things.
If you are willing to add even 1 pound to your plane ( flames now ), for this purpose, I think you are making a big mistake. Now really get your flames ready. While I don't believe that the plans are sacred" or anything like that, I do know that there have been, and are, a lot of KRs flying that have never had balance on the other surfaces. If I were to add an engine heavier and more powerful than the 2180VW, then I would balance them. I don't care what anyone says... a pound of extra weight on that tail, is a lot of weight to counter balance. If you have the engine for it, cool, but if you don't, use good sense, think about it and be sure it is worth the penalty that you will be paying. We used to have a saying in the computer services business when IBM was the only thing that executives would buy. FUD, Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. That is what IBM tried to throw in the faces of executives to get them to buy their product, and it worked. The only reason that I am standing up to the heat is because, it is too easy to fall into FUD when reading all the stuff that comes over this NET. Great stuff, but think about it all, and make good decisions. See N64KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Then click on the pics Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC [email protected] See you in Mt. Vernon - 2004 - KR Gathering See our EAA Chapter 242 at http://EAA242.org
