rewall forward:
http://www.flysquirrel.net/piets/engine/A75final001.jpg
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Medford, OR
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hangar in order.
You need to take a serious look at getting your hangar disorganized so you can
make measurable progress. And PS, a light coating of spilled Aeroshell 50 with
about 20 hours on it will help cut the glare from the overhead lights off that
clean floor. Just sayin'.
Oscar
o it would require a longer engine mount
and cowling for W Probably not as exaggerated as Mike Ladigo's turbine
engine powered KR, but longer than a VW or Corvair mount.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
, I still have my Mexico charts. They haven't changed or updated them in
20+ years...
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
not a "checkride" where you make it or you don't... the
reviewer just won't endorse your logbook until he or she is satisfied that you
have demonstrated the skills needed for safe exercise of the privileges of the
pilot certificate.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
made s much easier. Stay in the
lower orbit if you want to, but recognize that there are risks. Hackers,
phishers, and trolls never sleep.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Wow... it HAS been a long time, and there really are a lot of names that I
remember from that era. Mike Mims hosted me at his hangar in CA and showed me
how to do a fiberglass wet-out and layup. Right then and there, my first ever.
John Roffey, the maker of the famous wind tunnel model
"A Critical Analysis of the KR2" that in his opinion, the stated
8" range should be reduced to a 6" range, with 2" being taken off the aft end
of the range. The numbers all make sense now; thank you Jon!
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
details everywhere on
it. Then there is that BMW powerplant...
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
and a microburst
from a passing thunderstorm blew the thing off. He'll come up with something
though.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
I've been looking for pictures and a writeup on a beautiful KR with a Type 4
that was built by a Florida medical guy. As I recall, it won some awards at
Sun 'n' Fun and may have won a 'Best Engine' at a KR Gathering. I believe the
builder sold it and he may have died since then too, but I may
the aileron deflects very much. Now I
realize that a KR doesn't need much aileron travel, but this would require a
bit of study to see how much down travel is possible with it the way it's shown.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
As far as keeping resin out of locknut or nutplate threads while you're
glassing, you can stand them up in a row on some waxed paper and melt canning
paraffin or candle wax into the threaded parts before you install them. Resin
will not stick to wax. After they are in place and the resin is
has any better
information, please post it. Among the lists that Matronics hosts are the very
popular and useful Aeroelectric, RV, and Pietenpol lists.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Roger: what don't you like about the speedometer cable adjustment of the
mixture? Is it not fine enough? You could add a small lever arm to the
mixture screw and make the mixture adjust by push-pull with a standard vernier
type mixture knob. Depending on how long you made the lever you
Once again, thanks for posting photos of the Gathering. Lots of innovative
ideas. Jeff Scott's airplane is always such a dazzler, too... it always
photographs very beautifully air-to-air.
I noticed that John Bouyea is wearing a KRNet polo shirt in a couple of the
photos. A collector's
) but then why the mixture control? I
dunno... maybe off a jet ski or snow-mo?
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
as combining carbon fiber and fiberglass, Mark Langford has used both of
those materials here and there on his airplane and my guess is that if you go
to his website, www.n56ml.com , and scroll down to the search box on the home
page, you could enter 'carbon' and get a number of hits.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
our/ , with the key photo
being this one: http://www.n56ml.com/900hour/100717014.jpg .Duct tape, spring
clips, and a piece of metal angle. Couldn't be simpler.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
>From Pat Panzera:
Friends,
It?s just a few days away!
12th Annual Alternative
Engine Round-Up and Experimental Aircraft Fly-in is this Saturday, September
26th,
at French Valley Airport (F70) Murrieta
California, (Near Temecula on the Los Angles Sectional).
It?s a one-day,
>From Pat Panzera:
Friends,
Saturday, September 26th is the big day.
Last year we moved our annual event to Southern California,
to a beautiful non-towered airport that's easy to get to in French Valley - near
Temecula.
The paved runway is wide and long for the fast-glass,
KRNetters-
The annual Contact! Magazine Alternative Engine Roundup is coming up.
Information, photos, a forum schedule, and airport information here:
http://www.contactmagazine.com/roundup.html It's at the French Valley Airport,
near Temecula CA, on September 26, which is 3 weeks after the
If anyone is planning to drive to the Gathering from Colorado and might have
room to take back a set of landing gear legs for a Pietenpol, let me know.
Trying to get them to a builder in the Boulder area but anywhere close would
work fine.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
rd?
Off soapbox now.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
utting it on a trailer, and driving about 300 miles south of where you are to
the KR Gathering that is coming up this September 4-5 at McMinnville, Oregon.
There will be a lot of KR builders, pilots, and wannabes there.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
bill. A couple of
5-gallon totes of $2/gallon mogas in my hangar could bring those differences in
value to the immediate forefront if they were to spill and ignite.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
railing
edges on control surfaces. I know you cut back the edge of the foam before it
feathers down to nothing and then fill in with micro that hardens to form the
edge, but I've never done it and never seen it demonstrated.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
a layer of it around on the area where the glass
splinters are. Let it dry and then gently peel it off, starting at the edge.
If it's good and dry, the glue will peel off in one piece and the splinters
will come up with the dried glue. Works for those tiny wood splinters, too.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
John asked about how far the airplane will have traveled down the runway at
different touchdown speeds. The best way to determine that is to find videos
of KRs landing on hard-surfaced runways that have standard runway markings.
Better yet, see if you can find videos that KR pilots may have
eir safety and that of
their passengers and the public, and have no more of a death wish than
ground-bound folks. I like my AME, but given the opportunity to self-police
and take the FAA out of the equation, I would do it.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
actuator or a mechanical flap handle
and linkage, a Fowler-like action can be achieved.
Again, like the scissor-action speed brakes that I mentioned a few days ago,
"just food for thought". I can't help noticing things like this, especially
when I'm stuck looking at them for hours at a ti
ngineering and testing to determine the best
place to put them on the airfoil. Anybody got a wind tunnel? ;o) Just more
food for thought.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Golly, Mark- you disappoint. I thought you were going to tell Herbert that
you'd be going back to Germany and would be happy to take him a copy of the app
on a thumb drive. All he'd have to do is meet you on a mountain trail up in
the Bavarian Alps to get it...
Oscar ZunigaMedford, OR
Well of course it doesn't... since I entered it wrong ;o)
Try this one: http://www.flysquirrel.net/floats/krfloat.jpg
-Oscar
/xl-schneider-cup.html )
Jeff Scott came pretty close to putting his KR on floats, if you define "close"
in the physical sense: http://www.flysquirrel.net/krfloat.jpg ;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Mark (Jones), the exhaust note from your airplane really sounds nice. Maybe
it's the aft location of the camera that picks up the exhaust sound more
clearly, but it sure sounds sweet as you roll off of the active.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Keep it up and somebody's going to make a pair of matching boards, one solid
and one perf'd, and run a comparison test ;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
s yet, but he's going to lose an
engine on takeoff..."
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
large shear or peeling forces trying to pop the pieces apart.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
, elevate the end of your hose above the fluid level in the can or
it will all get out eventually.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
but I
wouldn't think that those fittings would be rotating under any conditions.
>And the oil, can we use normal car stuff dot4?
I would only use red aircraft hydraulic brake fluid. More information here:
http://www.groveaircraft.com/fluid.html
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
but it can get pretty
heavy if you use a lot of it.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
up describing my first
flight in a KR (Paul's), here: http://www.flysquirrel.net/ride.html . That
page is dated December 1999, fifteen years ago, so anything I did to help keep
you motivated back then has long since burned out ;o)
Again, congrats!
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Pietenpol NX41CC
,
and do some gentle braking (those toe brake pedals will be moving back and
forth with respect to your feet and toes) till you pass the hold line to clear
the active and start breathing again. But this is why we fly, eh?
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
>From Pat Panzera, editor of Contact! Magazine:
=
Friends, This Saturday's the big day.
We've moved our annual event to Southern California, to a beautiful non-towered
airport that's easy to get to (French Valley - near Temecula). The paved runway
is wide and
. Winds at the Cape Blanco
lighthouse, the westernmost point in the lower 48, have been clocked at 184 MPH
;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
m air force" all dreams
of going, I'm sure.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
spent the better part of 8 hours on Interstate 5 on Thursday and Friday
with only the usual radio and CD stuff to listen to, and would have enjoyed
having the forums available.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Heh, heh? fellow named Steve Eberhart posts and says he's "played around with
KR stuff in the past". An understatement, very much like Steve. He was one of
the developers of the AS504x series of KR-optimized airfoils and he built the
wind tunnel models. I believe John Roffey machined the
calculations that determined the design maximum gross.
Your own maximum gross may vary from design based on how you build the airplane
or how you elect to test fly it.
Complete details and history on the development of the AS504x wing are here:
http://www.krnet.org/as504x/
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
heading for a year or more or has had any
significant metallic items changed in the cockpit, you'll need to re-swing the
compass. Get busy! ;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
I only have a
fraction of the flight hours that you do, but the instructions for
unsubscribing yourself are even easier than following the preflight checklist
on my little Pietenpol.
Good luck.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC
A75 power
Barron, I believe it's $12.95/month for my webhosting.yahoo.com service.
-Oscar
ce of a little
less than 14" between static fuel level in the header tank and the inlet to the
float bowl. Probably not unrealistic for your setup.
Whatever the case, you've seen 0.8 psi at the carb with your setup, and there
is no arguing with that. Good info.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
(right
outside the kitchen) all day long and not even get a minor complaint from my
wife. If I open a can of spray paint in the garage and just test the spray
pattern on a piece of cardboard, she will be out the door in a flash and ask me
to take it somewhere else.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
I have not attended any of the workshops so I can't comment on how useful they
are, but I'll put in a good word for the KRNet because that was how I got my
first lesson on fiberglassing and it looked so easy and so clear that I had the
confidence to just jump right in and get busy. I was going
ss part
over a foam form. When the layup is cured, just slosh a little gasoline around
inside it and the foam will dissolve away.
My M-19 is being constructed using the pink board and AeroPoxy laminating
resin, but the wet cell wing fuel tanks will use vinylester for fuel resistance.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
I'm guessing Gary's airplane comes out weighing 777. Sounds like the winning
number on a slot machine.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
that it will melt like Icarus' wings, but it could result in
a droop, twist, or other distortion.
The urethane foams (such as Last-A-Foam) have much higher distortion
temperatures than polystyrene board.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
OK, netters- here's the request I said I would be sending out for KRNet
support. This list is moderated and hosted by Mark Langford. Over the years
his website, http://www.n56ml.com, has become somewhat of an unofficial KR
clearinghouse, archive portal, construction tip/technique storehouse,
etty sharp stall break ;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
So... I thought at one point Steve Glover from NVAero had talked about hosting
the Gathering, but over here on the West coast? It is the home of the KR,
after all.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
would have to find a suitable disc that you could mount to the Azusa wheels
(motorcycle, kart, etc.), then devise a mounting point for the caliper on the
gear leg.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
washers, P/N 92140A118, for $12.06 from McM-C.
www.mcmaster.com
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
opper or aluminum OD tubing.
I'm not sure that I would use the push-on fittings for softer flexible plastic
tubing, but for the stiff nylaflow tubing, they work great. The part I got is
like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Watts-PL-3002-Push-Elbow-4-Inch/dp/B000BVMZ9M
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
What engine is on the airplane? With those RPMs, it sounds like it's a Corvair.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
g off the doghouses but it
looks ugly)- finally decided to just look for another. Found out that no
instrument shop in the world will touch something that an "amateur" has had
their hands in.
Contact me off-list; thanks.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
I was waiting for Jeff Scott to chime in on the Cont./Corvair/VW subject since
his KR probably has as much time on its small Continental as any of the others
that are flying with that combination. It's hard to say exactly what Jeff's
engine is, though, but it's basically a morphed C85 that is
I just got the April SAA newsletter and it's a write-up about the SAA fly-in
that was just held in South Carolina. I notice that Dan Heath's
Corvair-powered KR made it into the photo gallery. A good number of Corvair
powered aircraft in the gallery. Oscar ZunigaMedford, OR
for the
first time.
Sporty's has the DVD for $89.95 and that's the route I'll go if I can't find a
used one. Contact me off-list, please.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
be coming your way from where the seller is, transportation could be
arranged. You can't just put a canopy in the mail, for example, and you
probably wouldn't want to trust it to your letter carrier if you could.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Send and receive test, as well as reply on the .jpg issue. I use Irfanview,
which is a photo manipulating software (shareware), well supported and
full-featured. There are things like Gimp out there, too... public domain,
free download, well supported.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
know what that translates
to with a shorter prop, 1000 RPM higher speed, and 1/4" out of track.
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
Flying Squirrel N2069Z "Rocket"
Medford, OR
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
don't own a KR, have
never built one, and don't even own a set of plans so I'm not sure what I'm
even doing here.
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
Flying Squirrel N2069Z "Rocket"
Medford, OR
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
Jeff Scott had his KR2S on floats for a short period of time:
http://www.flysquirrel.net/floats/krfloat.jpg
;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
Flying Squirrel N2069Z "Rocket"
Medford, OR
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
sure if there were such a thing as "BeerPal" where you
could send him a nice amber ale, he would appreciate that too ;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
Flying Squirrel N2069Z "Rocket"
Medford, OR
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
list. He
prides himself in having read every post ever made to this list, and I believe
it. I've been here for a while, but Mark has been here even longer...
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
Flying Squirrel N2069Z "Rocket"
San Antonio, TX (soon to be Eagle P
Just a note to all of my flying friends that we will be pulling up stakes
and moving back to southern Oregon the end of this month. I'll have to
come back down to TX later this summer and retrieve my airplane and all
of my hangar stuff though.
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout&qu
me off-list;
thanks.
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
San Antonio, TX
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
Patrick asked-
> Well, what's the "rest of the story"?? What kind of car did the kids get??
Maserati Ghibli. It was the only way his wife could stay up with him driving
back.
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
San Antonio, TX
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
in the Lakeland area knows of a Fairchild or someone
who is into old airplanes who might be aware of it, I'd appreciate any help...
off-list, please.
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
San Antonio, TX
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
, we're hoping
it won't be too difficult to locate. Registry shows that it probably still has
its original Warner Super Scarab radial engine... again, not many of those
around either.
Any help or leads, please email me off-list. Thanks.
DO NOT ARCHIVE
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "
engineer, I tip my hat (and my slide rule) to you, sir...
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
San Antonio, TX
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
I'm looking for a set of four EGT probes and four CHT thermocouples
for 18mm spark plugs, plus 4-position selector switches for them, to go
with a combo Westach EGT/CHT gauge. Please reply off list; thanks.
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website
http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=595153256001
In case you didn't already know this, or forgot it- good to know when you're
running your wiring.
Oscar Zuniga
Flying Squirrel N2069Z, on the gear
Air Camper NX41CC, flying
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http
with a VW and
forward-opening canopy. Is it?
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC flying
Flying Squirrel N2069Z on the gear, no wings
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
Couldn't find anything else to pick at, so here's a tiny bone to pick with the
keeper of the Gathering webpage: at the top of the page it says "KR Gathering
2010", but then it states the dates as "September 10-12, 2009".
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antoni
Five-Six-Mike-Lima, you had the guts to enter the Airventure Cup and the
airplane and stamina to finish the race. Congratulations!
Bitte, ein Bit-!
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
I'll bet the float planes had no problems getting in ;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
_
Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e
"Zipper" Goodman used to be up in that area (or close enough... Coupeville).
http://sites.google.com/a/wildblue.net/goodmans/
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysq
h no spars.
You can read more about the wings on his webpage, and also comments about
Hoerner-style tips on his 'performance' page, here:
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/performance/
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
all the Wisconsin bugs and
Florida sands that are waiting.
Moral of this story: 23-year old Spray Lat will readily release from
Plexiglas with application of heat (guess about 200 degrees F).
===
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at h
2" of the published KR center of gravity
envelope with the RAF48. Most builders consider those last aft inches to be
"no fly" loading.
Oscar Zuniga
Flying Squirrel N2069Z
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
the entire plank must
be clear and straight.
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
Man... Stef and Ted's work is beautiful! The metal work on it would embarrass
even the best RV builder and take a look at the upper body mold. Really nice
work!
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
Robert: if you'll go to the KRNet homepage, there are links to the original
newsletter. In one of those is an article on a nosegear setup with the
information that you need. It's all right here:
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kro12_96.html
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
Somebody else (no names being mentioned) came up with a KR-2T "Tango" twin but
it was just a 2-place:
http://flysquirrel.net/KR/Tango01.JPG
Twin Jabiru engines, nosewheel, pocket Derringer ;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
websi
think your next project should be restoring a vintage steamroller like an 8HP
1913 Aveling & Porter from Manchester, England. They travel at a much more
sedate pace ;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
Flying Squirrel N2069Z
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at
support was online when I opened the box so after just
a few minutes, I'm done. Highly recommended.
Oscar Zuniga
Air Camper NX41CC
Flying Squirrel N2069Z
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
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