Yea I bought into the gap seal will make the airplane go faster B.S. too When I had a C-150 it didn't go any faster however I could walk a little faster without all that money I spent having them put on P.T. Barnum theres's a sucker born every minute. Bye Jim B KICT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Beyer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 11:59 PM Subject: KR> gap seals
>I have installed gap seals on my KR-2 a couple of years ago and have seen >no > noticeabled difference in performance. I am considering taking them off. > The > gap seals cause more mechanical friction on the aileron rigging and that I > don't need. Also the wing is easier to handle when off the plane without > the > seals. Follow the plans when building. > > > > -Joe > > > > > > > > Message: 6 > > Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 22:16:10 -0500 > > From: "Mark Langford" <[email protected]> > > Subject: KR> flying > > To: "KRnet" <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: <001c01c670bb$6cc93a00$2802a8c0@2600xp> > > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > > reply-type=original > > > > NetHeads, > > > > I've been doing a little bit of flying myself. Considering we were > > surrounded by thunderstorms, yesterday was a pretty smooth flying day. I > > got in about 3 hours, first doing climbs, glides, and stalls, then adding > > gap seals and repeating the process. Bottom line is that I could tell no > > appreciable difference in climb rate (and I have some pretty accurate > data, > > gathered while maintaining 95mph in each climb, plus or minus a mph or two > > either way). Stall speed might have dropped a mph or two. Top speed > > appears to have improved slightly. I'll have to dig up the E6B to find > out > > exactly how much, but it's not much. I attribute this to the care I > > exercised fairing the ailerons and split flaps into the wing (details near > > the bottom of http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/owings.html ). Building > > ailerons per the plans yields a big fat gap at the bottom and that begs > for > > > gap seals. One odd thing is that the stalls are now preceeded by some > > noticeable buffeting, which is new, and I'd swear it climbs with less > > fuselage angle and lands easier (I greased about 5 in a row at FYM), but > > these are probably my imagination. > > > > I'm up to 519 KR "landings" (and still only on the second set of tires!) > and > > > 210.9 hours of KR time (sorry, Larry). Maybe I'll get some more in > > tomorrow, as I plan to buzz up to MRC to visit Troy Petteway, a 20 minute > > flight... > > > > _______________________________________ > 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 >
