Jim Kendrick asked about a super Kr2 becoming an LSA? I have asked the same
question Jim. Having been retired for more than a decade from a 45 year
wonderful career in Architecture, I certainly am not qualified to design the
main wing spar for a longer span for the outer wing panel for the Kr. At one
time, Rand designed outer wing panels for the Kr-1 to make it into a glider,
but I never saw or understood what kind of loads it would carry. In looking at
some of the newest LSA designs for sale in Sport aviation, they have wing spans
of around thirty feet for the thirteen hundred gross weight. I have not seen
what airfoils these designs use, but there are several in EAA books that would
certainly could be used to Slow it down, Match the required stall at gross,
etc. We old coots that could fly LSA, might be able to get back into the air?
I said it before, some of you young engineer types come up with wing designs
and plans, we will buy them. These airplanes all have hershy bar wings.
on a different thought about Kr-2 pitch sensitive control, there is an article
in January 1988 Sport aviation, that is worth reading before the first flight
of a new Kr-2. EAA Members can access past articles on the internet, if you
can remember all the pass words. Two things that stood out for me as note
worthy are, tail wheel training is necessary, and the top of control stick only
moves at a one half inch radius circle!
Tom Garner in Nashville
EAA 90944
