Russ Houck wrote: > I'm new and I'm 6-2 and 250lbs. There is a KR2 I'm looking at to put a > corvair motor on, could I stretch the completed KR2 (Unpainted) or is that > more work than it's worth? I the KR2 big enough for me?
Jim Hill stretched his KR2 to a KR2S, but only because he broke the tail off in a force landing incident! It can be done, but be careful to properly scarf the longerons and plywood. Other than that, altering the turtle deck (not trivial) and longer cables would be necessary. It sure sounds like a lot of work to me though, and as Kenneth said, your fuselage will have some discontinuous curves in it afterwards. It took Jim Hill two years to do his. Personally, I don't think it'd be worth the effort. Keeping the CG at the forward end of the range will go a long way towards accomplishing the same goal and a Corvair would do that immediately. Before you make any decisions, you'd need to do a weight and balance and consider the extra weight of the Corvair and where it's located. Will you fit? It all depends on how tall the guy made the canopy, and how deep he made the seat. Leg room will probably be short, but there are pleny of tall guys flying KRs. It all depends on how bad you want it... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
