ially better than that now, but that's only
after over 2000 landings on my plane. And I have huge flaps!
Late today was super smooth, so I took the opportunity to do a wide open
flyby at about 220 mph about 20' off the runway. What a blast...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
my recently repaired altimeter.
There was a decent sunset, but no clouds, so nothing worthy of an addition
to the sunset webpage. No progress on the plane otherwise, so it'll look
just like it did at OSH (hideous) at the Gathering...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
--
this, but eventually I'll do
something regarding a website on my wingtips. I have to keep my priorities in
order though, and flying every few days is pretty close to the top...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
e, which I'm sure is why you ask.
Just clarifying for others...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
The Gathering is coming up soon, and it's inevitable that somebody will ask
about videos of the Gathering, maybe if videos of past Gatherings were
available yet, and eventually, "whatever happened to Video Bob"?. He
answers that below. It reminds me of something William Wynne says often,
rfoil (designed specifically for the KR2S, but applicable to the
KR2 and KR1 as well) at http://www.krnet.org/as504x/ .
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
process, but flying and taking sunset pictures is a lot more fun and
relaxing that creating web pages. That's something else I've learned in the
last five years. Sorry about that
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
, so I'm going to call that a sucess also. Winter speeds will
be even better...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
ea is
created to help suck on the pipe while driven (or flown).
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
hift is fairly minimal, and is
certainly nothing that can't be easily "tuned out".
Right now my KR2S CG has moved aft to the point of wishing I had a little
more weight out front with a passenger, full fuel, camping gear, and max
gross weight. I'll just move some aft stuff forw
Paul wrote:
> My question is I have a KR-2 fuselage sitting on RR landing gear with
> completed tail section, but looking through his paper work on the plane I
> see no
> log or paper work indicating a center spar inspection.
There is no "hard" requirement for a spar inspection. There was maybe
John Davison wrote:
> Congrats to Mark. I was wondering how much was the entry fee?
$275, but most of that's been taken care of by contributions from
KRnetHeads.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
-showcase". The
controller took it in good stride, and the last one wasn't too bad, by
comparison...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
nished up and trying to make the plane a little less hideous for the
Airventure Cup race. See the top photo at
http://www.n56ml.com/sunsets . I've missed a bunch of great sunsets, but I'll
make it up...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
n to buy ethanol-laced fuel...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
surely will
get to fly it this afternoon for the first time in about 6 weeks...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
two or three weeks, I won't feel bad about
sawing it up for the wood...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
me address if you want to mail a check. It cost $275 to enter, and the
fuel for the race alone will be another $75 or so. There's no pressure, and I
don't expect anybody in particular to contribute, but if you'd like to, I won't
turn it down.
Thanks,
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
o gradually taper the additional spar material inside the fuselage
so there is no sudden discontinuity with the rest of the spar, which would
create a stress riser.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
t they're that extraordinary.
I thought I sent this last night, so if it shows up again, it's a glitch in
the system, not me losing my mind completely...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
. Lower Cn? (yaw stability)
d.. Bad for winglets
e.. Stall location (more difficult)
f.. Large Cm0 with flaps
g.. Reduced pitch stability due to additional lift and fuse interference
h.. Smaller tail length???
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
te
to call it an LSA, although I believe it can still be flown as an LSA. The
other part of that is the max speed, so you'd need a small engine or a
fine-pitched prop to keep from exceeding it.
Gotta get back to the hangar for another round with the vinyl ester fuel
tank...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
of beating a fuel
tank into submission before OSH...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
red by
somebody else (or lots of people), and your reply may just be redundant, or
even worse, already disproved by somebody that knows more about it than you
do!
17) Those who violate these suggestions may find themselves wondering why
they don't get KRNet mail anymore. I reserve the right to throw anybody
overboard that I see fit...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
tanks in my cool basement, but when you use
that stuff in a 98 degree hangar, the pot life is measured in terms of a
very few minutes. Normal layup procedures have to go out the window, and
new super-streamlined ones implemented. I'm sure that's another reason
vinylester is a favorite of manuf
y plane is back together. He forgot to mention the
Harley he was riding when he showed up, also perfect. I was afraid he
wouldn't have much to do while he was there, but he ended up entertaining
everybody there...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
on the WAFs except during really hard landings. With my usual
1000-pound full-fuel flying gross weight and rarely pulling more than 2g's,
it won't be spar or WAF failure that gets me.
As far as actual dihedral on the KR2 and KR2S, it's 2.98 degrees.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
websi
to get out to the
airport right now, so somebody with a little time on their hands is welcome
to do that. Otherwise I'll do it tonight...
The KR2 has the same dihedral as the KR2S.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
etely
finished. Today I relearned how valuable a heat gun is when it comes to
altering fiberglass parts in a hurry.
See http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/900hour/100629083m.jpg for the current
state of affairs regarding the wings. More on all that later...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" h
t; in my KR2S. I'll build my next one to 5 degrees of dihedral...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
ot; or
so and you're good for a ride at the Gathering. Given the number of
military hours of flying you have, I won't worry about an airsick bag.
You'll have to hold my drink on takeoffs and landings though...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
ought .006" stainless from
somewhere and 1/8" fiberfrax from Wicks and saved a lot of weight...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
ght, but
at this point I'm happy enough with my plane to expect no real degradation
in performance by gaining another few ounces...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
have a KR class...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
Getting there was almost as nice as the picture at the top of
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/sunsets/ ...a super-smooth late-day climb to
7500' ...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
Lee Jarvis wrote:
>I just caught the tail-end of a news story about an experimental aircraft
> that made a rough off-field landing somewhere in the Tampa area late this
> afternoon.
Was it light blue with a blue tinted canopy? There was one like that from
down Tampa way.
Mark Langf
stability...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
bad for
a bunch of moisture floating around in formation...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
lt entirely of
wood by the local Amish. It's a gorgeous airport in the shadow of the
Appalachian mountains, surrounded by rolling farmland. See
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/flights/100522175m.jpg for a typical picture
across the runway.
Thanks for having us Jack and Sandy...
Mark Langford
N
ther and it fired up instantly and ran smoothly, so flew
it a while to check things out, did a few passes and landed, set the GPS for
O4TN, and I'll see y'all in the morning...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
rvairsrch/index.jsp ), using the keyword
"Aerocarb".
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
irplane was fixed yet, and I said "no,
but I went to the airport, removed it, and hope to weld it up tomorrow
night". She looked a little skeptical, and I said "the deal was I had to go
to the airport and do something about it, and I did". She just smiled.
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
Phillips screwdriver to help line things up first, then wiggle it around
until I get a long carriage bolt through the hole, then replace that with
the "real" AN bolts.
It's not a picnic, but not worthy of a divorce either...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
rt. Steve at Great Plains also has a cure for this, I believe.
What made it obvious was loads of end play on the crankshaft...the prop
would move fore and aft an eighth of an inch or so, rather than the .004" or
so it's supposed to be.
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
Dave Dunwoodie wrote:
> Now that they are here, I don't have a clue as to how to mount them!!!
One way to do it is shown at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kgear.html .
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
ant to email you last night and let you know that was my
opinion as well, but never got around to it. If nothing else, you, Dan, and
I will stand around and talk KRs and Corvairs all day (weather permitting).
Anybody else is welcome to be there too...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
. Fortunately, it was a really nice one
after a long hard slip to bleed off speed, thanks to the calm winds and
apparently good karma...or maybe it was just luck...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
makes
me sick.... : )
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
foil was plopped right on top of the existing spars in pretty
much the same location, since the %MAC, Cm, and other numbers were pretty
close to the RAF48. CG location should be close enough for KR work...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
at one situation is definitely correct before moving on to the next.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
"Bob" wrote:
> The link on your homepage to the EIS source is dead, as AOL's Hometown
> is long gone. Would you have any current contact info on them?
EIS is made by Grand Rapids Technologies, at
http://www.grtavionics.com/product.aspx?productno=2
Mark Langford
n5...@hi
some damaged
pieces you could cut a section out of, I was unable to turn up any.
Anyway, I plan to install some simply baffles space with tubing, weld end
caps and AN outlets on it, and install a 4 gallon wing tank in my right
wing if I live long enough to find the time...
Mark Langford
carb temp sensor. I've always had it, and it shows up in
the MAP column data stream in the prop performance data at
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/performance/ , in about the middle of that
page, far right of the table.
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
rent
story, but you'd have fried that gauge already. Let us know if you really
do see much change when ram air is on or off, assuming you can control it,
but it makes very little difference on mine...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
rol
over it other than I send a contribution every few years to the
aviation-oriented guy that does run it...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
bout how
patient I am with people on this list, but I must admit you've really made
my day!
Nice model, by the way...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
ch-n-goes. FYM has a flock that seems to live out
in the middle of the runway. So far they've been quick enough to get out of
my way. I sincerely hope their luck continues...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
http://www.krnet.org/krs/wwilson/ . I have better pictures of his plane
from my English adventures. I'll post them one of these days...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
osing track of it on his BlackBerry. Looks like he's
been busy too...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
://www.krnet.org/ and give me a
better caption (email direct to me, please).
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
From: Brad Ankerstar
To: KRnet
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:12 PM
Subject: First Flight - N774A
Today was not supposed to be the day, but it was. N774A inadvertently left
the ground at Butler County Regional (HAO), Ohio. Wind was 5-7 knots right
down runway 11. After a brief attempt to
Todd Price wrote:
> www.bonusonlinecasinos.biz/home...
I wouldn't click on that link if I were you. I don't know what's there, but
I can guess that it's some kind of malware looking to make your life
miserable. He's been unsubscribed for now...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
webs
irst flights where the EIS was
all "jiggly", so I need to replace that and generally update that whole
page, but there's some pretty solid info on that page...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
) to the bracket, match drilled
the rivets and installed them, and the resulting fit is perfect. Otherwise
I'd find myself chasing the floating part around trying to get things to
line up...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
Dave Dunwoodie wrote:
>I haven't seen anything on here about electric trim.
See http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/trimtab/index.html for my trim tab
installation, and http://www.krnet.org for many others....
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
and on. Maybe I just
wrote a testimonial for Clevelands, but I've seen KRs with other systems
(Obrien, GPASC, etc) that are far more compact and apparently effective
enough for KR work.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
See http://www.uavenginesltd.co.uk/ for more
info on those engines...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
ooking file thoughan excercise in Optical
Character Recognition gone completely crazy. It looks like one of those
ransom notes from the 70's made out of various letters clipped from
newspapers and magazines.
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
ilar fashion), I've determined
it's the best way to land on my short strip. If I had 5000' x 100' wide to
dally around with, I might have a different opinion, but I don't. And most
folks will testify that I'm not much of a pilot...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
ntelligent decisions are deliberated based on one's personal
preferences and situation. Having said that, when I build another one it'll
definitely be a taildragger...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
tailwheels, they appear to have the same problem discussed at the
link. And if you are considering the whole assembly (which I highly
recommend), you can save some real money and hassle by buying from the
original manufacturer (Aviation Products).
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay
to the community at large, since
we're the ones who wrote the articles...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
is what you'd order. The
fiberglass wings should be laid up at 45 degrees, however. This is from
memory, but I'm pretty sure about this one...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
own. It is the 10th through 12th.
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
nd, KY). There's more in the archive on it, but I'm sure
the website will be back up shortly. I'm bringing a tent.
They haven't blocked us from sleeping in the grass yet have they?
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
ing that.
The link at the bottom of all messages ( http://www.krnet.org/info.html )
explains the process in the first sentence on the page, which is to visit
http://mylist.net/options/krnet and ask for your password (near the bottom
of the page) be sent to your current address.
Mark Langford
p://www.krnet.org/kr-info.html , or if you have Excel, open
http://www.krnet.org/kr-info.xls, edit it locally with your information, and
send it back to me for incorporation (that's easiest for me). I'll give y'all
a week or so to trickle the info in and then I'll update and post it.
Thanks,
Huntsville by our local weatherman, Bob Baron. Ain't technology wonderful?
Personal time machines are good too...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
s is probably a reasonable recipe.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
quot;live" site up, check out
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/aprs/LL_lake2.jpg for a snapshot at the end of
the trail. Pretty cool stuff, at least from my standpoint! For more details
on how this works see http://fly.hiwaay.net/~sbuc/journal/tracker.htm .
Mark Langford
N56ML "at&qu
truthers. I don't
think they are on KRnet, but I could be wrong.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
ete engine buildups, and help a lot of Corvair builders get started on
their engines, all for free. There's more on the details
http://www.flycorvair.com/hangar.html , but the registration link is above.
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
- Original Message -
From
r now, but it'll be Tuesday before it comes in.
Actually I have TWO on order, so this will never happen happen again.
Wednesday's supposed to be decent, but that'll be 10 days without flying, so
I may need professional help and withdrawal therapy by then...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at"
,
but the plate's not coming out until the snap ring is removed. That makes it
easy to get the screw in a position that you can unscrew it though. I just
screw mine back in finger tight for the next time.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
think of it, you may
know everything I just said, except what the deal is with that screw. If
so, my apologies, because I don't know the answer to that one either.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
I just threw it out there as another option. If
nothing else, the very light weight has to be attractive. Having said that,
a pilot buddy showed me his new PLB yesterday that only cost $250, but I
think I'll wait for them to come down some more.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
aters, so the coverage can likely be all the way to the
ground. As it is set now, I've been picked up 50' off the ground while
landing by an I-gate 34 miles away.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
about it,
which is how I like it. Today's flight is at
http://aprs.fi/?call=n56ml , and tomorrow night it'll show a quick trip to
Kentucky and back. It'll be a great day for flying in the Southeast...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
mple.
Sam Buchanon wrote a Kitplanes article on this 2-3 years ago. The web version
of that is at http://fly.hiwaay.net/~sbuc/journal/tracker.htm .
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
so perhaps I can end it...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
The way I did my wheelpants over Cleveland brakes is at the bottom of
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kgear.html ...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
cause much of the time, your reply will have already been answered by
somebody else (or lots of people), and your reply may just be redundant, or
even worse, already disproved by somebody that knows more about it than you
do!
17) Those who violate these suggestions may find themselves wonde
://www.krnet.org:80/info.html which many of you apparently haven't read
yet...
Mark Langford
n5...@hiwaay.net
website www.n56ml.com
od is mentioned in the old newsletters, so it must work.Micro
is pretty cheap stuff, and that sounds awfully easy, so I'd say it's worth a
try. Who knows...you might reinvent another wheel for us...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
he copper
tape, and even then there MIGHT be problems, so I'm back to what's been
mentioned several times already (including me), just use something else to
stick your copper tape to and get in the air that much quicker...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
nna. I don't think the copper will care what it's
wrapped around the outside of, as long as it's not conductive. But why
debate it...I'll test it and we'll know for sure...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
om my KR wings exhibited no such behavior.
And resistance was infinite on the surface between any two given points.
Sliding the copper foil down into the tube like I did would be problematic
though...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
/flights/10020711m.jpg for a more detailed
look, and note that the Interstate is wider than the 16' wide runway! It was a
great trip though, and now I have a lot more confidence about my ability to
land on a road if I had to...
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
o the bearing, and
are replaced when the bearing itself is replaced. Given that, you can see
how the whole cartridge could spin on the axle, chewing it up in the
process.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
that
it works fine like it is. I would think a copper rod would be rather heavy,
but that'd work.
Mark Langford
N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
website at http://www.N56ML.com
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