I have an old KR2 T/D that was written off by insurance companies due to a tail wheel block was ripped out of the fuse. I was meant to fix it for the owner, but found a damaged spar due to poorly fitted Jab maim gear. I could not bring myself to scrap it. It’s now hanging from the roof in our local historic museum. It had a BRS mounted on the firewall. Terrible job at fitting. They made a weaken section at the rear of the cowl for the shoot to deploy. But my opinion, and my engineering mates was it would not freak open to let the shot deploy. And the shute was attached to the four engine mount bolts, if it did work what a ride descending tail first. Also what about the possibility of engine fire when the rockets fired under the cowl. The plane was stripped of engine(Jab 2200) prop instruments and BRS all sold off. Phil Matheson
Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Apr 2021, at 04:13, Dr. Feng Hsu <fenghs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good to hear Larry that you are one of the few decided to put a BRS on the > KR2! Have you decided or ordered ur BRS and made preliminary design on how > to install the BRS? Also, how would it change the CG and useful load > parameters etc....? Can you shade some lights for us whom wanted to do the > same? Yes, estimated cost info as well please.... > > Thanks in advance! > > Dr. Hsu > > >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 6:25 PM Flesner <fles...@frontier.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 4/12/2021 6:58 PM, Kayak wrote: >>> >>> Just be careful on that tail heavy. I saw a KR2 flat spin >>> fatality in the news (he was apparently doing spin testing IIRC). All >>> caught on his gopro all the way down. My kr will have a BRS btw. >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> No reason other than human error to not know the accurate C.G. location >> of the airplane on the ground. Out of range aft CG can kill. I've >> never done stalls with a passenger or weight in the passenger seat. On >> the several occasions when I did a bi-annual flight review in the KR I >> made it clear up front with the instructor, no stalls of any kind, you >> can have some stick time, I'll land the airplane. If I don't hurt >> anyone and don't damage the airplane I expect to pass the flight check. >> After structural integrity, and equal to, is CG location. Engine >> reliability is less important than either. An airplane will glide with >> a dead engine if it stays in one piece and is controllable. Langford >> did it three times as I recall. >> >> Larry Flesner >> >> ________________________________ >> -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >> -Change list delivery options at >> https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board >> -Search recent KRnet Archives at >> https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ >> -Search <https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/-Search> >> John Boyea's decades of archive at >> https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ > ________________________________ > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -Change list delivery options at > https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board > -Search recent KRnet Archives at > https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ > -Search John Boyea's decades of archive at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Boyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
