Hi: Dan Diehl of course built and flew the plane but then as I recall he sold it to an airline pilot ??? Who then replaced the VW engine with a Cont. O-200-a but he is not listed in the registry as a previous owner so I don't know if that's true or not.
He then sold it to Richard L. Lanning who then flew it for some time and then bought an all aluminum home built which I rode in but cannot remember the name of it. Then he sold it to me and I flew it for a short while until I got hit with a strong crosswind as I was about to touch down at Mt. Vernon airport at the start of the KR Gathering in 2009 and that ended it. I'm trying to find the link to all of the pictures on the KR website, can you send it to me please? Thanks. On Sat, Jan 8, 2022, 11:46 PM Luis Claudio via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > Myron, I was telling Larry about my early encounters with Dan Diehl and > N4DD. He lives in Jenks OK, I lived in Broken Arrow, OK. Riverside Airport > in South Tulsa is where he was/is based forever. One day (circa 1985 or so) > he flew N4DD to my home base Harvey Young Airport (IH6) for a fly-in. The > worst airport anyone can fly into... anyway he ran over one of the runway > lights that was hidden in the tall grass and put a hole in the leading edge > of a wing... well he jumped out with a patch of fiberglass, sandpaper, and > epoxy, and repaired the wing right there... We were so impressed with this > tiny airplane (I had a Cherokee 180 at the time)... and that's when I > decided that if fate would have it, I would someday build a KR2... > Funny the things one remembers... > Luis R Claudio N8981S, KR2S. Dallas, Texas > On Saturday, January 8, 2022, 11:40:02 AM CST, Myron Freeman < > mfreeman1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, I still think of that every day, what a shame. 15 seconds earlier > or > later and I probably would have been just fine. > There was a lot of history in that plane. > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2022, 2:31 PM Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote: > > > N4DD had a very hard landing at Mt Vernon, "flown" by the owner at the > > time, Myron Freeman. Your confusion is probably that both airplanes > > were KR2's, similar in paint scheme. N4DD was completely destroyed, > > N891JF was barely damaged. > > > > N357CJ is Joe Horton's plane. All he was saying is that his plane was > > somehow picked up just flying over my incident, and apparently was > > associated with the "crash" (forced landing in a Wisconsin bean/corn > > field), which was Jim Faughn's N891JF plane that I put there after > > sucking an exhaust valve and instant VW engine failure. Not much of a > > "crash", I broke the prop and damaged the wheel pants and tailwheel, > > mowed down 11 rows of corn at 60 mph, but didn't even scratch the paint > > on the wings. I was trying to make a 3000' long grass strip after > > climbing out from OSH, and I made it by gliding several miles, but when > > I got there it was planted in corn, so given 15 more seconds of flying > > time remaining, I chose the very short bean field that led to a > > different corn field....with 7' tall corn. Not bad stuff to land in, in > > hindsight..... > > > > Mark Langford > > m...@n56ml.com > > http://www.n56ml.com > > Huntsville, AL > > ________________________________ > > -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 Bouyea'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 <https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/-Search> > John Bouyea'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 <https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/-Search> > John Bouyea'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 Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
