Hi Jeff
I thought the -2S had the rear fuselage extended to reduce elevator
sensitivity and had the firewall moved forward to compensate by altering the
engine mount position. I can well understand then why you correctly needed
to add weight up front in various ways without building the firewall
Hi John,
You are correct in that the fuselage was extended to address elevator
sensitivity and the firewall moved forward to move the engine forward to make
the plane easier to balance. Sid just stated it a different way by saying the
wing was moved back by 2". Either statement is correct.
Hi Ya Jeff
I reckon it's bit more complex than just moving the wing. As a weight
alone, moving the wing back away from the CoG increases weight on the tail
for sure. To this extent Mike was correct in his comments on 10th May about
moving the wing forward to offset the tail heaviness.
However,
Thanks for the replays guys. Mark, you bring up some points I didn't think of.
Paul Visk
Belleville Il.
618-406-4705
Original message From: Paul Visk via KRnet
Date:05/11/2015 9:44 PM (GMT-06:00)
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Visk Subject: KR> Canopy hinge
I'm trying to
At 03:23 AM 5/12/2015, you wrote:
>I reckon it's bit more complex than just moving the wing. As a weight
>alone, moving the wing back away from the CoG increases weight on the tail
>for sure. To this extent Mike was correct in his comments on 10th May about
>moving the wing forward to offset the
>. I know the currant trend is to mont it from
>the front. ? But I can't get over the inability
>to open the canopy in flight if you need to jump out.
++
I'm with Mark L. on not opening the
Paul,
There are two other possibilities off the top of my head. I have seen the
foreword lifting canopy that basically has 4 attach points and lifts foreword
and up as a parallelogram. The other is a foreword sliding canopy. I don't
think rear sliding has been done or is practical for KR shape.
Sid i know that you moved the engine forward 2? to compensate for the tail
heavy.
But you also moved the landing gear Aft to keep from tail tipping while
getting into it.
I don?t know any thing else about your aircraft but it seems that that selling
your 2180 is
a lot more of a loss than
I am in full agreement with Larry especially in the reasoning that it has to be
considered from the start. N357CJ was built from the start with an eye on
weight and location of that mass. I know places that I could have improved and
actually saved some weight but over all it turned out pretty
Hi Jeff
That is exactly the point I was aiming to yesterday. The addition of a
single pound in the tail would require perhaps five times more in the
nose due to the differences in distance from the CG to the tail than the
the distance from CG to the nose. It is quite likely the balance
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WE JUST HAD A MOTOR GLIDER LOSE HIS SIDE HINGED CANOPY IN FLIGHT. Gashed the
fuselage, could have taken the tail off. He managed to land safely- barely.
Definitely go with front hinge.
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Paul Visk via KRnet wrote:
>I'm trying to decide on which way
My KR2 is a first generation model having been started in 1977.It started
out as a no electric retract at 550lbs.Through the years and mods,it is now
an electic start fixed gear taildragger and the fuel is still in the header
at 650lbs.The engine,a VW moved forward about 2 inches and the battery
A guy in Kansas bought it. We tried to find it to but it back but never got an
answer.
Steve Glover
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On May 12, 2015, at 12:59, Mike Stirewalt via KRnet
wrote:
>> "I don't think rear sliding has been done or is practical for KR
> shape."
>
> Steve Glover had one for
I have been doing the annual condition inspection, oiling the hinges, making
sure nuts are tight everywhere including the elevator balance weight, and
not once considered that it may be an unnecessary item. Consensus appears
to be that indeed the balanced elevator on a KR-2 is not needed.
Does anyone here have a set of kr2S plans that they could photocopy the
top view of the aircraft for me. I ordered the plans from NV Aero back
in February and confirmed the order was received, however I still am not
in receipt of plans and I have spoken to someone from NV who said I
would have
Sid is there any other electronic devices?. ant. ELT, etc aft of cg, that can
move forward? Inches make a difference. Feet will make leaps.
> On May 12, 2015, at 8:53 PM, Sid Wood via KRnet
> wrote:
>
> I have been doing the annual condition inspection, oiling the hinges, making
> sure
My canopy is rear sliding.?
Joe
'I don't think rear sliding has been done or is practical for KR shape."
Joe Horton
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I'm not promoting flying with a parachute, ?I don't. Interesting story though,
I worked with a test pilot that flew with a parachute. He had a plane that got
into flutter. He said that the plane just disintegrated around him (not a KR2).
?Luckily he had his parachute on and landed safely on the
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