>Does aerial extraction imply what I think? Sure. It means it was grabbed out of the air. We engineers do it all the time.
>Would anal extraction be more correct or precise? I don't know. I don't grab much from there and I certainly wouldn't accuse Ken Rand or Stu Robinson of doing it either. However, grabbing something out of the air in Southern California probably isn't much better (sorry, Randy). I will say that there have been lots of KRs built and flown, they aren't "unsafe at any speed", they continue to attract high-caliber builders, and the design seems to be amazingly popular given all the other, newer designs out there. If it had a fatal flaw, it would have a bad reputation and a slim following. It has neither. With several hundred members on the KRNet, a record turnout of flying KRs at recent KR Gatherings (for a design that is 30+ years old), and several award-winning examples produced every year, the design must be mature and its weaknesses pretty well known. The CG range is one of them. Happy Friday, y'all! Oscar Zuniga San Antonio, TX mailto: [email protected] website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
