There ya go! Limit prop pitch to manage the top speed without impacting the climb rate negatively (improve it actually) and you're off and flying.
Anybody flying a KR with a 1320 pound gross weight limit? Probably not, but a very simple KR2s could be built to the LSA rule with only a couple of limitations, 1) prop pitch, and 2) gross weight of around 950 pounds. This sounds pretty much like an early version of the KR to me. Denny ... --- Don Chisholm <[email protected]> wrote: > just to let you know I registered my KR1 in the > primary ultralight catigory here in Canada > with a stall speed of 45 mph. If you look at the > early KR2 plans it calls the stall speed as > 42 mph > > Dennis Mingear <[email protected]> wrote: > Most KR's are not as fast as most people think they > are. The VW powered stuff seems to fit into the LSA > rule fairly nicely, the stall speed is still a > problem > though. > > Look at what Monnett has done with the Sonex ans > Waiex, they are both LSA compliant. Any KR builder > can > do the same with his KR. As I recall, to use the > stock > KR2s wing you would have to limit your gross weight > to > something like 950 pounds to meet the criteria that > Monnett uses for His planes. > > It can be done, but, do you want to put up with the > LSA limits imposed by such an approach. > > Denny ... > > --- "[email protected]" > wrote: > > > One thing to keep in mind that may preclude a KR > > from ever being registered in the LSA category is > > that the published speed of all KRs is 200 mph. I > > believe the upper limit on your LSA category is > 130 > > mph? > > > > Here in Canada we cannot register a 1400 lb > aircraft > > in the Advanced Ultralight Aircraft category > because > > the allowed all up weight for an AULA is 1350 lbs. > > Also, the AULA category maximum stall speed is 42 > > mph. It does not wash at all to tell Transport > > Canada "I'll only fly it at 1350 lbs and stall it > > below 42 mph." > > > > Food for thought. > > > > > > PJ > > > > > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: KR> KR2Sport - FLAME ON > > > > > Sir, I too have been looking into a kr2 sport. > If > > the 130 mph is the mark, > > > why not adjust the engine to get there, thus > > making it a sport. (I do know > > > other adjustments will have to be made, but just > > how difficult can it be?) > > > If there are any suggestions, I would like to > > know. Thanks - Curt > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > Search the KRnet Archives at > > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > > [email protected] > > please see other KRnet info at > > http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > > > > GOP = Greed-Oppression-Power. > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at > http://www.krnet.org/info.html > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at > http://www.krnet.org/info.html > GOP = Greed-Oppression-Power. __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/
