KR> KR Gathering Registration is Online!

[Steve G.]

Ok.  After a few tweaks it seems all is well and I am receiving registration
confirmations.  Please commence the registration.  If I have you on the list
but you did not register, please do so if you are attending the banquet or
want hats/ shirts.



www.KRGathering.com



Thanks!



Steve

KR> My gathering Registration failed

[Paul Visk]

I got a response after I tried to register saying.
"The result storage capacity has been reached for this form. Your result was 
not created. Please contact the form owner."

Looking at it again I'm thinking this might be a good thing. ?With the number 
of people registering we have overwhelmed the system. ?Steve, you might need to 
reserve the fairgrounds. ? : ?)

Paul Visk
Belleville Il
618 406 4705


Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S?4.

KR> Issue with Gathering Registration, please read if you've pre-registered

[Mark Langford]

If you've "confirmed" your registration form already (hit the yellow 
"confirm" button at the bottom), then you were sent an email.  That email 
was supposed to go to Steve Glover, rather than to the person who 
registered, so please forward that registration email to Steve  at 
n925sg at gmail.com so he'll have the information.  If you haven't registered 
yet, just wait until Sunday morning.  That'll give him all night to 
straighten it out.  He tested it and it worked for him, but you can see why 
he thought it worked!

Mark Langford
ML at N56ML.com
website at http://www.N56ML.com
 

KR> O2 System

[peter]

Someone should buy my portable liquid oxygen set from Caire. 8lbs for 8 hrs. at 
2 lpm. perfect condition with big box of canullas. $150 w/guarantee. See: 
http://www.cairemedical.com/getattachment/cc86f72e-30d5-41dc-beed-79e3f11f4ad8/.aspx
 Peter

KR> KR 2014 Gathering Registration link enclosed

[Mark Langford]

http://fs30.formsite.com/nvaero/form1/index.html is the KR Gathering 
registration URL.  It may take a few seconds to load.

At the moment I know of at least 6 KRs planning on flying out to Chino; Rob 
Schmitt, Terry Chizak, Larry Flesner, Joe Horton, Jeff Scott, and me. They 
almost set a record for KR attendance once with 21 flying KRs there 
(according to an old newsletter), so we've got a ways to go.  I'm looking 
forward to the adventure...

Mark Langford
ML at N56ML.com
website at http://www.N56ML.com
 

KR> Gear Placement

[smwood]

Mark,
I already have the top bolts on the upper gear legs with steel fender 
washers on the upper surface of the fiberglass.  The bottom of the legs have 
a single aluminum plate on the fiberglass, all per your suggestion several 
years ago.  With the aft extension I will put a steel plate in place of the 
aluminum plate on the bottom gear leg fiberglass to increase the clamping 
action.  My reasoning is to prevent splitting the gear leg due to increased 
twisting during landing and rough field operations.  Overall the extension 
will be a flat plate, 0.250 x 3.0 x 5.5 inches.  I am waiting for the 4130 
steel from AC Spruce now.

And still waiting for anyone to volunteer what the main gear position 
location is for their tri-gear KR-2.

Sid Wood
Tri-gear KR-2 N6242
Mechanicsville, MD, USA

> Now that I notice that gap at the very bottom of the gear, the bottom 
> bolts
> would see some tension, rather than compression, but the gear bracket 
> itself
> is still doing most of the resistance to bending.  I'd let the available
> hole spacing be my guide, but sandwiching the bottom of the leg a bit with 
> a
> small aluminum plate (or large AN equivalent of a fender washer) would
> likely satisfy me, if it were my plane.
>
> Mark Langford

KR> KR 2014 Gathering Registration

[Steve G.]

I finally have a functional registration page.  If you plan on attending the
2014 KR Gathering please register as soon as possible.  It would be greatly
appreciated.  After registering.  Check back on the site to ensure your name
appears on the spreadsheet.  This part has to be updated manually.  If you
are not there after a few days please let me know.



The site is still not complete as I have been buried with my day job. I will
have photos of the shirts and hats as soon as I am able.



Thanks



Steve Glover

KR> Please sign me up

[Dan Heath]

Steve,  please sign me up for the gathering.

Dan Heath

Lexington, SC



Fri - Sun with banquet



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1 hat



No KR, No spouse. 





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KR> Back to the KR...Finally

[CraigW]

Finally done with the Colt and flew .7 today.  Now on to the KR again.  But
first, todays lesson will be that no matter how hard you try you will miss
something.  My flight today after 10 months of work was anything but uneventful.
 The small oil leak turned into a big oil leak.  Good thing I am staying right
over the airport and flying oval tracks.  Oil cooler line was dripping a little
but I couldn't find the source.  Oh well lets go fly it and maybe the leak will
stop.  It only got worse.  In 45  min I lost 3 qts that mostly resides on the
belly of the plane now.  Lesson...find and fix the damn leak.  The second thing
was that if you know a plane and then make a change,,,in this case I added about
40 Hp.  Then you should expect to relearn the plane...I was not expecting all
the torque and extra right rudder I was going to need.  While learning that
lesson I fail to notice that I had no airspeed  by time I looked at it I was
half way down the 1900 foot runway.  Oh and 40 extra ponies make things happen
faster too.  So I decided we were going flying even with airspeed stuck on 0.
 Flew fine for 45 min and watched the oil pressure slowly slip down...down...
down, at 50 psi it was time to land.  Time to make an approach and see how thing
felt since I only have 1900 feet.  First  approach looked good so I went around
and came on in.  Finally something that went as planned and the landing was
uneventful.  Turned out that when we reskinned the belly we forgot to open the
static tubes.  A hot soldering iron fixed that.  So even though we had 3 people
(1 was an IA) working on the plane we all missed that static vents.  The oil
leak was all my fault as I backed off a 45 deg fitting to get it to line up with
my oil line.  So even though we try hard to think of everything.  We always will
miss something.  If were lucky, it a small something that does not become life
threatening.  Now back to that KR.

Craig
www.kr2seafury.com

KR> Hypoxia

[Jeff Scott]

Good comments Ray.

The symptoms of hypoxia manifest themselves in various ways.  Many people have 
a tingling in their lips or finger tips.  My only symptom is that I get very 
drowsy and unfocused.  

Living in the mountains, I am acclimated to higher altitudes and routinely fly 
at 11,000 - 14,500' for short periods.  I find my endurance to be less and less 
with age.  When I was in my early 20s I could spend the day at 15,000' with 
little effect.  Now that I'm in my upper 50s, a lengthy cross country trip at 
12,500' without O2 will leave me fatigued, unfocused and not necessarily 
processing information optimally upon arrival at destination.  That's not a 
good situation.  It takes time to re-oxygenate and recover from an oxygen 
deprived condition.  Age and physical condition are big factors in the onset of 
symptoms and speed of recovery.

If you have the opportunity to take a flight at higher altitudes with a 
co-pilot that is wearing O2, it's a real learning experience in how quickly you 
can become really stupid.  There is a huge difference in human performance 
between 12,500' and 15,000'. 

-Jeff Scott
Los Alamos, NM


> Subject: KR> Hypoxia
>
> Hello All,
> Not KR related, but definitely aviation related.  The 99's are having a
> convention this week in New Orleans and one of the seminars was/is on
> hypoxia and is open to all pilots in the area.  I went there (instead of
> listening to Mark) on Wednesday and it was excellent.  it's one thing to
> read about what happens if you fly too high without oxygen, it's another to
> feel it.
> The class was about an hour and a half and went over the types of hypoxia,
> symptoms, ATC examples (very cool) and what to do about it.  Then you get
> to go to a chamber that they equalize at 25,000'.  And the thing is, the
> list of symptoms are only potential symptoms and everyone reacts
> differently.  Nausea, headaches, tunnel vision etc.
> So you start at 25,000'.  They say you have 3 minutes (at that altitude) to
> get yourself out of trouble.  That may be too generous.  We had an oxygen
> sensor on us (to measure oxygen in the blood) and you start at 97% or
> higher.  And then it drops.  by the time you are in the 60's you are done.
> We also had a clipboard to log the onset of any symptoms - every minute.
> And we had a sheet with a simple maze and some math problems.
> In my case, the only symptom I felt was a tingling in my fingertips.  But
> by the third minute, I could not do the maze (kindergarden level) nor any
> simple math problems.  I could barely write a number.  I simply could not
> focus.  8x7 was impossible.  Once you put the mask on, after 3 or 4 deep
> breaths, you are back to normal.  it's that quick.
> And of course the reality is that you can suffer from hypoxia at much, much
> lower altitudes (they said start worrying about it over 8,000 - especially
> at night).
> For me, the problem is that I didn't get a headache or nausea or anything I
> could react to.  I simply lost the ability to focus.  Which means I could
> not even know that I am losing control.  But it was a heck of a thing and
> very instructive in highlighting the dangers of hypoxia.
> I strongly recommend that if you ever get the chance to experience it - do
> it.   And before I do any high flying I will get an oxygen setup.
> 
> 
> Ray
> New Orleans