Sun and Fun is just around the corner - How many KRs will there be and who
will stay for maore than a couple hours? I hope to see a few of you there
this year. This will be my first year there in N41768 and sure hope its not
the
last. I have just clocked over 138 hours on her and still having fun.
Saddly I havent flown in over two weeks... maybe this next weekend. Im doing
a
couple cowling mods and some repair and paint work to my wheel pants. I hope
to have strobe installations finished - left wing is done but still need
parts for the right wingtip.
For the guys checking out finished money invested in there planes, I had
7258.00 total at the time of the Gathering 04. Since then I have invested a
couple hundred bucks more and still have more plans down the road but it
wasnt too hard to have a nice flying plane for a relatively low price and low
time investment (about 600 hours). I may decide to begine building another
KR2S in a couple years with a few mods that Ive been thinking about. However,
N41768 has been fun and a good experience. Ive flown in all sorts of weather
from 100 degrees to 40 below, snow, rain, (no sleat or ice), turbulence, and
beautiful blue skies, and it have remained steady and very secure. This
plane does much better in turbulence than my other standard KR2. I used to
have
to slow down my other one to 120 mph or I would bounce all over but this
plane does well at a manuevering speed of 150. I hope to get my top speed
over
the 180 mark with a couple mods but Im comfortably flying 65% power(give or
take) at 150 mph buring about 4.5 gph. Not bad! Full throttle can get me
180
but I also burn about 6 or so GPH. Ive got some prop changes to make and
test out to see if I can get better performance but that requires time and
money I dont have at this point.
Keep building guys (and gals) and get in the air soon - there is a lot of
room up there for you!
Bill Clapp
