One more comment on this.  Yes, I laid it out in CAD and printed it out full
size.  Why?  I guess because I could, but now that I've done it, I can tell
you that it's a waste of time.  I've come to realize that a lot of stuff
that I did during construction of my plane were just diversions to keep me
from actually building and completing the thing.  Absolute perfection is not
a requirement for building a KR.

 I built a perfectly straight fuselage and in the end the thing still had a
heavy left wing.  That's probably because the pilot sits over there, and
propwash, and who knows what else, but my point is that it's not going to be
perfect, and if you'll accept 95% as "good enough for KR", you'll be done
about twice as fast as if you'd strived for absolute perfection.  That even
goes for paint.  I'll bet the guys with the perfect paint jobs will tell you
that it doesn't last long, and may not have been worth the extra time spent
for that temporary perfection.

I can't count the number of times I wanted to scrap something because it was
flawed, like say, the fuselage!  But as some point you've got to admit that
it's not going to be perfect and that you simply can't afford to start over
on it, so you fix it best you can and get on with it.  Many times I fretted
for days over how to do something right, and in the end I'd finally get
tired of waffling and simply pick up a tool and DO IT!  I'll confess that
beer often played a role in this behavior, but the end result was that it
got built just fine, and it works.

I feel like I can say this and get away with it, because I've seen both
sides of the coin, but my advice would be to simply get on with it and build
the thing, and come join in the flying fun!

Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
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