Interesting info. The story from Vans has been that the RV-1 was a modified Stits Playboy. So, what you are saying is that the Playboy hooked up with the Ms. Taylor and their baby was the RV-1?
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:18 AM Mark Langford <[email protected]> wrote: > Many years ago I when I was working on the optimal airfoil for N56ML, > I called Stu Robinson (one of the two "designers" of the KR1 and KR2) to > ask him where he got the detailed specifications for the RAF 48 that is > detailed in the KR plans. His answer was that it was used on the > Taylor Monoplane, and that and many other details of the Monoplane were > "borrowed" for the KR1. Actually the Monoplane used the RAF45 airfoil > (if you can believe the "InterWeb"). > > That's not to take anything from Rand/Robinson, as the big thing they > brought to the table was "composite construction".....foam and Dynel > (which quickly become fiberglass). Whatever RAF airfoil it was, that > series of airfoils was developed LONG ago, and I could find NOTHING > about its characteristics at the time. Airfoil development has come a > long way since then, hence KRnet members' 1994 effort to design a better > airfoil for our planes. See http://www.krnet.org/as504x/ for that > interesting story, and all the gory details of the airfoils that most of > us are using today when building a KR series airplane. Download it for > free at http://www.krnet.org/as504x/templates.html. I can probably > remove all the "USE AT YOUR OWN RISK" stuff from that page, as there are > a LOT of planes flying these airfoils now, and these airfoils are being > designed into the FreeBird as well. > > And for those wondering what "Dynel" is, think coarse, white, stiff > burlap! Jim Faughn's KR2 is made of that, so I get to see some every > time I repair a composite piece of it! > > Mark Langford > [email protected] > http://www.n56ml.com > Huntsville, AL > > > -- > KRnet mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet >
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