>Both Mark Jones and Joe Horton have the strut on their >KR's with the Corvair engine. Jones has added an additional gusset. I >think Joe's is stock. With all the heavier engines being used right now we >are looking into a couple modifications to support the additional weigh of >these engines.
In my honest opinion, you would have to slam the nose down real hard to collapse it. I actually ran over a deer with mine and it did no damage to it. Another thing to remember is that the load on the nose strut is very minimal with the pilot and passenger in the plane. I weighed the load on the nose wheel with me sitting in the cockpit and there was only 47 pounds on the nose wheel. In the empty weight configuration there is a 214 pound load on the nose wheel. Mark Jones (N886MJ) Stevens Point, WI E-mail: flyk...@charter.net Web: www.flykr2s.com
