Steve Makish called me yesterday, and mentioned that he'd just ditched his retracts and gone to fixed gear. He said the fixed gear made his plane "squirellier" on the ground because it had a wider stance than the retracts. He started looking at tailwheel geometry, and noticed his bellcrank had only 3"- 4" center-to-center bellcrank. He replaced it with something closer to the plans, which has a 6" c-c distance, and it made a world of difference.
Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
