Looks intersting, but what's the price ? I down-loaded their "price sheet" with lots of empty space, but it wasn't clear....
-dave Barry Kruyssen wrote: >Look at the Whisper Motot Glider at http://www.whisperaircraft.com/ for an >economical kit glider. I would have bought one except for one small detail, >experimental aircraft cannot be used for training or taking paying >passengers, and I want to do both so I bought an IS28M2 motor glider. > >Regards >Regards > >Barry Kruyssen >k...@bigpond.com >http://www.users.bigpond.com/kr2/kr2.htm > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf >Of Dennis Mingear >Sent: Monday, 19 March 2007 11:43 PM >To: KRnet >Subject: Re: KR> moto-glider > >The KR-1B uses longer wings but they cannot be used on a two place KR. > > The spar and wing attach fittings would have to be redesigned. > > I've done a lot of thinking about a "Xenos" type clone based on a KR-2S >fuselage. > > It would be a lot of work, like a redesigned wing with glider like spar >stubs that overlap and pin to a spar box in the fuselage and increasing the >size (area) of the vertical stabilizer some. > > A Touring type of motorglider would be easiest to achieve by using a wing >that's in the mid 30's, say 36 feet in span. If you left the horizontal stab >alone, you would also probably need a new airfoil for the wing, one with a >smaller pitching moment. The neat thing though is that once you were done >and it was time to go soaring, you could simply adjust the L/D of your new >motorglider with the throttle and you could have everything from a Duo >Discus to a S 1-23 in performance. > > A wing like the Europa glider wing would mean a redesign of everything, >may as well try and find a Europa kit and go at it, probably be easier, not >that my "Touring Glider" concept would be "easy" to accomplish! lol! > > It certainly wouldn't be a KR anymore though! > > Denny ... > > >_______________________________________ >Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net >Post photos, introductions, and For Sale items to >http://www.kr2forum.com/phpBB2/index.php >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > >
