Yes please Steve, you've shared your thoughts - would be happy now to hear your ideas :-) Murray Gill
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On > Behalf Of Steve and Lori McGee > Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: KR> Declaration of ignorance. > > > I must admit that I have had to look at why I do things the way > I do and what is causing my designs and ideas to be the way they > are. For those of you that have not heard or followed my story I > will exasperate you a little with my dream. > > I have wanted to fly for decades. Small children and finances > have put it off far too long. Yes I have flown with others in > small planes, but have not yet got my pilots license. My plan is > to start when I am about 3/4 finished with the KR impostor. I > figure if I get it now, the money spent to keep my skills "up" > will be money I could have spent on the project. I know it would > be extra experience and I will probably end up doing that anyway > as I am getting the itch to start with the nice weather coming on. > > Any way what I am getting at is this. I have had some rather > different ideas (compared to what I have seen from the tons of > web sites studied) on how to build this thing in designing the > controls and a few other items. I don't know if it is just the > lack of having been in the "group" of aviation, and having my own > ideas rather than mimicking what has already been done or what. > But I look at the control stick and designed it opposite of what > for instance Langford did. I have an idea for the rudder control > that at first I said to myself, that's crazy, but the more I > think about it the more I like it. For instance one problem > with it I have noticed is that some people have actually broken > horns or caused other problems with the system from basically > pushing on both rudder pedals too hard. I have come up with a > design where, this just can't be done, push on both pedals all > you like, you will not transfer any extra force to the cable > system. If you saw it outside of a plane laying on a bench you > would say what is that? > > I suppose time will tell and maybe I will be shunned at a future > "Gathering " being considered dangerous. But like Frank said, > I did it myyyyy waaaayyyy. > > Too many beers - night all. > > Spell checked, grammar not checked, good nite viet nam. > > Steve McGee > Endeavor Wi. USA > Building a KR2S widened. > [email protected] > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
