I told this story before but will share again. Back in the late 1980's when I first learned about the KR, I joined EAA, and got on the KR newsletter and also got a owners list and reached out to a few. Thats how I met Bill Reents. We were both IBM Mainframe operators. There was no internet then, so it was all by phone. He had lots of hours on his KR and some forced landing experience (not enough for a Mark L pin, but enough!) but the most interesting story he shared was about flutter.
He told me he was doing a low pass and hit 221 mph and the flutter kicked in suddenly and extremely violently and everything in his field of vision was a blur. He had presence of mind enough to unload the stick and pull the power and let it abate. Definitely proves the robustness of the KR design. Reason it happened? He had repainted and did not rebalance his control surfaces. I cant recall for sure if it was aileron or elevator flutter, I think it was aileron flutter. If and when I build mine, the control surfaces will be balanced (and the plane will have the lightest BRS I can fit to it). _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected]
