A KR-2 with a 2180 and only one on board will vibrate, but will fly fine with one cylinder not working. When two of them go at the same time right after lifting off from a touch and go it will climb about 150 FPM and get questions from the tower operator of "Would you like to declare an emergency at this time?" Some of the many adventures I will not soon forget.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Mark Langford" <[email protected]> Reply-To: KRnet <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:08:41 -0500 >herbertsname wrote: > >> If a KR flys with a cruise prop and experiences a "fouled plug" or some >> thing that drops the RPM. The question is will that KR have enough >> power to sustain flight or even climb? When is to much pitch to much >> for safety margins? > >Obviously that depends on the engine. I'll let a VW guy comment on that end >of the spectrum, but I can tell you from personal experience that a Corvair >will keep on climbing at a pretty good rate with one totally dead cylinder. >I think Bill Clapp had a spark plug blow out on takeoff, and obviously he >was able to make it back in too. > >I'm still headed to Frasca, but weather may determine whether I show up >Friday afternoon or early Saturday. > >Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama >see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford >email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > >_______________________________________ >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 > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.engalt.com
