Herre is all the info on the Gathering. http://krgathering.org/
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI Visit my web site: www.flykr2s.com E-mail: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dann Johnson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 6:11 PM Subject: KR> KR2 gathering info > > Could you refresh me on this years KR2 gathering. Still in Illinois ? > > Oh.. on Ebay there is a listing for an interesting VW powered airplane. > Looks like it would be really heavy. Past the item number ( > 290015467228 ) into the ebay search slot. > > <http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Fsofocus%3Dbs%26sbrftog%3D1%26from%3DR10%26satitle%3D290015467228%26sacat%3D-1%2526catref%253DC6%26sargn%3D-1%2526saslc%253D2%26sadis%3D200%26fpos%3D50478%26ftrt%3D1%26ftrv%3D1%26saprclo%3D%26saprchi%3D%26fsop%3D1%26fsoo%3D1%26fvi%3D1&item=290015467228> > > > Dann > > > [email protected] wrote: Send KRnet mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mylist.net/listinfo/krnet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of KRnet digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. RE: RE-Gathering location (Brian Kraut) > 2. Re: cover your ears...another flight report (Larry H.) > 3. LCD going black (J Milland) > 4. Re: Gathering location (Steve Bray) > 5. Roy Marsh's KR-2 ([email protected]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:19:21 -0400 > From: "Brian Kraut" > > Subject: RE: KR> RE-Gathering location > To: "Bob" , "KRnet" > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Nothing but amphibious planes at Gilbert. > > Brian Kraut > Engineering Alternatives, Inc. > www.engalt.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Bob > Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 9:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: KR> RE-Gathering location > > > > > gathering at a given location, more than two consecutive years. > > > Hey everyone > I enjoy the krnet very much, the people are friendly and don't care to > help > people out when they need info on build their airplane. I realize that I > am > new to this list. I like the ideal that you move the meeting place every 2 > years. When you do that people from all over has a chance to see everyones > airplanes and talk to them in person. > On the other hand I can see having it at the same place, for instance look > at sun and fun or Oshgosh there is a lot of people goes them once a year. > I > would like to see a gethering down here in Florida at the Gilbert Field > here > in Winter Haven Florida. I am sure that a lot of you know the field > because > this field is packed when the sun and fun is going on.They also have a eaa > chapter over there but I think that they are buliding RV's Thanks for > reading my post > Bob > [email protected] > > _______________________________________ > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 20:19:55 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Larry H." > Subject: Re: KR> cover your ears...another flight report > To: KRnet > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > W-O-OOOOOOOOOOOOOO Whewwwwwwwwwww That was close !!!!!!!!! Startled me > there !! > My second choice is your dads grass strip ! Actually first choice since I > know none of us has a C5a or anything close to it. > Larry H. > > Mark Langford wrote: > NetHeads, > > Today I flew down to my father's grass strip, turning a grueling 4 hour > drive that I used to hate (I don't do it any more) into a 1.5 hour excuse > to > fly somewhere. The landing was my best yet, because after bouncing three > times yesterday on Moontown's grass strip, I was determined to "plant it" > this time and during future landings. Apparently I've become lulled into > three pointing it such that I don't need to "stick it" with forward stick, > but that's something I really ought to do on every landing. > > And the bonus is that my father is on the other end of that trip. He's 75 > years old and still way sharper than I could ever hope to be. What a > character. My mother's there too, and although she's physically in great > shape (thanks to my father), she's basically about a year old mentally, > thanks to Alzheimers. That's particulary sad for somebody with a PhD that > ran the county school system for twenty five years. The funny thing about > that is you never know if she's going to kiss you or bite you! > > We spent a few hours sitting around talking, driving around the farm > looking > at the cows, looking at all the cool stuff in the barn, driving the back > roads, scoping out the irrigation pipe (potential KR fuel tanks), and just > generally talking like we've rarely had the chance to do over the years. > But now that I have my own personal time machine, it's pretty easy to do. > And he gets a kick out of me using the 3600' long 80' wide grass runway > that > he built for me and my brother to come visit on. > > On the way back I had what was definitely the closest encounter I've ever > had with another of the "aircraft" species. I was in some scattered clouds > at 9,999' or so (any higher and I would've needed my transponder that's > out > being repaired) and admittedly not really looking hard for any other > trafffic, since I rarely see anything up that high anyway, and I certainly > wasn't looking west where the sun was frying me from. Something caught my > eye to the west, and in about 2 seconds it went from a suspected bugsplat > on > the canopy to a KingAir or SomeOtherTwin that I was definitely going to > hit. > I never imagined how quickly something going 160 mph could converge on > something going 250 mph from a right angle, but it happens so fast that > it's > futile to even consider watching out for. I was listening to the nearby > Birmingham approach, and neither one of us was talking to him, although if > I'd had my transponder working (it's on a workbench somewhere in the > midwest), they'd have been watching out for me, at least. I'm not sure > what > the moral of this is, but it's the first (and hopefully the last) time > I've > thought to myself "if you don't haul back on the stick in the next half a > second, you're going to hit that guy". I pulled up (I think I was supposed > to dive) and then turned right to get a departing glimpse of him, but he > was > so far gone I never saw him again. I'm pretty sure he never even saw me. > Just something else to contemplate on your next flight! > > I parked it with 294 hours on the clock, and opened another Amber Bock... > > Mark Langford, Harvest, AL > see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 20:37:10 -0700 > From: J Milland > Subject: KR> LCD going black > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > I had a LCD temp display that I had left in my car for a while > here in Arizona while a crew was pouring a new driveway for me. When > the job was finished and I could get to the car my LCD display was > completely black and the interior of the car was rather on the warm > side. However, several hours later, the LCD display returned to > normal and I enjoyed several more years of usage. > > John Milland, Arizona > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:39:00 -0500 > From: "Steve Bray" > Subject: Re: KR> Gathering location > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed > > mark > I also would love to have one at Los Alamos airport becouse my son works > there but it is not exactly an easy airport to land at. Its a one-way > airport with some tricky winds. On departure even if you don't get > airborne > your gonna fly.....off the mountain. > Sante Fe might be a real good place for the westcoasters too. > Steve Bray > Jackson, Tennessee > > > > >>From: "Mark Langford" >>Reply-To: KRnet >>To: "KRnet" >>Subject: Re: KR> Gathering location >>Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:22:47 -0500 >> >>Maybe there's a little room for compromise here. I don't think anybody >>can >>complain about the venue that Larry and Chris have provided at MVN. It's >>hard to imagine how it could be much better. But I also think there's >>something to be said for the adventure of going to a new airport, and >>giving >>somebody else the chance to make me say "wow...this is a neat part of the >>country", or "what a great Gathering that was!". Would you want to miss >>the >>great "Colorado Springs Gathering of '08"? No way! Or maybe San Antonio >>or Ohio, or Wisconsin or MN? We could conceivably do it one year at MVN >>and >>the next somewhere "strange", still by secret ballot vote at the banquet, >>of >>course. Although there's something to be said for the traditional >>"banquet >>pitch", you have to admit that it makes more sense to kick it around on >>the >>internet weeks in advance so people have a chance to investigate, run it >>by >>family members, think about it some, point out pluses or minuses to >>others, >>or whatever. Maybe this is the best of both worlds... I don't know. >> >>I also feel like the west coast guys are getting a raw deal. It's great >>that Lee, Steve, Jeff, Richard, and Rich fly all the way out here to the >>Gatherings, but I'd love to have a year where we all fly to Jeff Scott's >>field in New Mexico to see what a density altitude of 9500' is like. And >>I"ll bet there are a bunch of west coast KRs that we've never even seen >>before. If we had a Gathering out there and brought in some new ones, >>maybe >>they would come to MVN the next year. Or maybe we need to start cooking >>up >>"KR Karavan" trips in the Spring just to get out and get together >>somewhere, >>like Joe Horton and I did in West Viginia one day. >> >>Just another angle on the Gathering thing. I'd volunteer to have one at >>my >>father's farm (which I visited today), but I'm a little worried that >>somebody would roll one up in a ball down there... >> >>Mark Langford, Harvest, AL >>see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com >>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 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 20:47:16 -0700 > From: [email protected] > Subject: KR> Roy Marsh's KR-2 > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Someone asked sometime back about whereabouts of 133RM. > > I came across it today in Trade-a-Plane. Owner Gary Sacks returned my > call. He bought it from someone who bought it from Ron Lee in Colorado, > so he would be the 4th owner. Paid $5500. It's in a hanger at Samoa > airstrip in Eureka, CA. He says he has another KR too, also for sale. > Also has a Cherokee for sale for 26K. > > He is putting a new turbo Revmaster in it since he thinks he heard a > knock in the old one. Asking price without transponder is 18K, 21k with. > Now that real estate has flattened it looks like KR's are a better > investment. > > His number is (707) 445-2343. > > Mike > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > See KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > > End of KRnet Digest, Vol 348, Issue 356 > *************************************** > > _______________________________________ > 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
