The width of the main gear is what Made the KR twitchy. The retracts were short and not very far apart.
--- Dan Heath <da...@alltel.net> wrote: > Today, I got to take the Black Bird up again, to > test out the mod for the > oil cooling. It worked exactly as planned. The max > OT that I saw was 190, > which actually is the minimum for cruise and I kept > the RPM between 3000 and > 3200. At 3200 Straight and Level, I saw 140 air > speed. Certainly that is a > preliminary number, but it does give me hope for a > fairly fast KR. > > The take off was perfect and so were all three of > the landings. To bad that > I can't get credit for more than one of them. It is > interesting that if I > hold position when it bounces, it will settle right > back in. After the > second bounce, I timed the roll out to "tail up", > just perfectly. Kind of > like 1....2....Tail up and hold. This is only my > 4th flight in this bird, > but it feels so good and never does anything > squirrely. So much for the > twitchy" KRs of old. This is a stock KR2, and it is > solid as a rock. You > don't have to lengthen anything or change anything, > you just have to get > your CG right. And... I think a little extra weight > doesn't hurt the cause > at all. I know that is blasphemy to the "keep it > light" crew, but this > plane flies un-believable good. So good, I wish I > could give every KR > builder, who thinks the KR is twitchy, a ride, to > convince them that it ain > t the KR, it is the builder. > > Oh, did I mention that I LOVE this KR2???? > > See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on > the pics > See you at the 2007 - KR Gathering > There is a time for building and a time for FLYING > and the time for Flying > has begun. > Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at > http://www.krnet.org/info.html > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near historic lows: $150,000 loan as low as $579/mo. Intro-*Terms https://www2.nextag.com/
