Larry wrote: Does anyone have any knowledge of this airplane? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32133949/001%20%282%29.jpg I recall it was being built for attempts at long distance records.
*********** Anyther KR mystery plane. That one looks really interesting. I think it was at Mt. Vernon 2009 there was a fellow down from Seattle who was in the test phase of his turbocharged KR. I got to know him at the Gathering and was closely following his progress. He had made a video of his most recent test run when he just disappeared. Emails bounced back undelivered. I know Larry remembers this fellow since you looked him up on the register when I was trying to find out what happened to him. He and his turbocharged plane, at the point of doing the first flight . . . just disappeared. Here at Gillespie we've got another mystery KR. It was/is Don's second one since he scrapped the first one because as he was building he kept having ideas about improvements he wanted to make. At some point he just started over. The second one was/is a very remarkable KR. It follows what has become the normal fuselage size improvements and has an 0-200, sidestick, a panel full of fancy glass plus an autopilot. The wings have detachable outer panels for the long-distance record flights he was/is intending to fly. He has enough fuel to go from here (KSEE) to Hawaii and beyond. BTW, that's the longest overwater stretch on the planet so if you can make that distance (KSFO - KITO - 2341 SM) one can go anywhere. Each of his tanks had expensive little capacitative senders that were programmable to account for the slant of the wings to render an accurate fuel level. It was/is quite a plane. For normal flying he intended to leave the outer panels off, although with them on he not only had a world traveller but also had the span of a sailplane and thus could go soaring if he felt like it. I've attached a couple pictures of his cockpit. I haven't been in Don's hangar for at least two years and didn't get his contact info so the status of his remarkable aircraft remains a mystery. He wasn't far from being ready to fly when I was visiting. Whenever I'm around his part of the airport I look to see if his door is open but so far . . . nada. His hangar neighbors must know something so I just need to make a better effort. Mike Stirewalt KSEE Laser147 at Juno.com ____________________________________________________________ How To Fix Your Fatigue (Do This Every Day) gundrymd.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/58179b30ac671b2f4bb2st02vuc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P1090574A.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 50164 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://list.krnet.org/mailman/private/krnet_list.krnet.org/attachments/20161031/7050f3c5/attachment.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P1090575A.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 51138 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://list.krnet.org/mailman/private/krnet_list.krnet.org/attachments/20161031/7050f3c5/attachment-0001.jpg>
