>Still thinking about fuel tanks. I have seen at least 3 KR's in South >Africa with tip tanks. It's a thought but I was looking at my RAF48 skins >and wondered if anyone has used the wing outboard of the spars to create an >internal tank. My rough calc puts the volume at 10 gallons.
Craig www.kr2seafury.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I built in wing tanks between the forward and aft spars in the outer wing panels using Vinyl Ester resin and fiberglass from the WAF rib to the next outer rib on the Dan Diehl wing skin kit. Measured as-built capacity is 10.6 gallons each tank for total 21.2 gallons. I think this is too much capacity. Were I to do it again, I would move the rear wall of the tank about six inches forward to reduce each tank volume by about 3 gallons for 7.6 each side. Fuel capacity can help or hurt depending on your mission. Sid Wood Tri-gear KR-2 N6242 Mechanicsville, MD, USA smw...@md.metrocast.net
