High altitude KR flying story 2014 Back in the day 1980's > Benton Air Field, Redding ,Ca the airshow fly in; a Single seat KR was there it really looked sharp the black and yellow checkerboard cowling and gold colored fuselage looked like a P51. The pilot was from Weaverville,Ca had his own runway along the top of a ridge in the Cascades. The pilot was a real gentleman aviator and was in fact a WW2 P51 pilot some of you certainly remember him I forgot his name but his motivation was instrumental in my KR enthusiasm. The story of him flying his KR1 from Benton airfield to Oshkosh,Wisconsin non-stop at 22,000 MSL with the turbo charged VW was true and impressed me. Watching him fly was also awesome. The story he spoke of using bondo to touch up hangar rash his own comment on his "bondo bomber" was humorous
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