Not sure what the price is now but the kit was about AU$35,000.00 plus shipping, motor, instruments and paint when I priced it about a year ago.
Regards Barry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Arbogast, CISSP Sent: Tuesday, 20 March 2007 9:11 AM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> moto-glider Looks intersting, but what's the price ? I down-loaded their "price sheet" with lots of empty space, but it wasn't clear.... -dave Barry Kruyssen wrote: >Look at the Whisper Motot Glider at http://www.whisperaircraft.com/ for >an economical kit glider. I would have bought one except for one small >detail, experimental aircraft cannot be used for training or taking >paying passengers, and I want to do both so I bought an IS28M2 motor glider. > >Regards >Regards > >Barry Kruyssen >[email protected] >http://www.users.bigpond.com/kr2/kr2.htm > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Dennis Mingear >Sent: Monday, 19 March 2007 11:43 PM >To: KRnet >Subject: Re: KR> moto-glider > >The KR-1B uses longer wings but they cannot be used on a two place KR. > > The spar and wing attach fittings would have to be redesigned. > > I've done a lot of thinking about a "Xenos" type clone based on a >KR-2S fuselage. > > It would be a lot of work, like a redesigned wing with glider like >spar stubs that overlap and pin to a spar box in the fuselage and >increasing the size (area) of the vertical stabilizer some. > > A Touring type of motorglider would be easiest to achieve by using a >wing that's in the mid 30's, say 36 feet in span. If you left the >horizontal stab alone, you would also probably need a new airfoil for >the wing, one with a smaller pitching moment. The neat thing though is >that once you were done and it was time to go soaring, you could simply >adjust the L/D of your new motorglider with the throttle and you could >have everything from a Duo Discus to a S 1-23 in performance. > > A wing like the Europa glider wing would mean a redesign of >everything, may as well try and find a Europa kit and go at it, >probably be easier, not that my "Touring Glider" concept would be "easy" to accomplish! lol! > > It certainly wouldn't be a KR anymore though! > > Denny ...
