> Who on the Net has flown both, and what is the difference???? I helped Jim Morehead with his beautifully built tri-gear a few months ago - did the first flight and several more over two days. My normal steed is Ken Cottle's KR-1½ and my previous KR was also a taildragger - a standard KR - so a taildragger KR is most familiar to me.
My taildragger in the three-point attitude is nowhere near the full-stall angle of attack, so I have to land at a speed higher than what I would prefer. With short runways speed control is critical for me. Jim's plane, because the tail is higher off the ground, allowed a much higher angle of attack and slower speed for touching down. The gentle KR wing just settles on at full stall with no sharp break (assuming the plane is built as accurately as Jim's is). You're barely moving when you do it correctly with any wind on the nose at all. Also helping this ability with Jim's plane was his 90º barn door drag flap under the cockpit. His manual extension/retraction mechanism of his own design was very solid and in stark contrast to the flimsy mechanism and shallow drag flap angle that I have. His tri-gear was a joy to land. In my opinion the tri-gear is more fun to land because you can get the nose way up where it's supposed to be when landing. Trying to land like that in my taildragger will hit the tailwheel and then flop the mains down, a technique hard on the tailwheel and just not generally graceful. Mike KSEE ____________________________________________________________ Diet Help Cheap Diet Help Tips. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=Qzpb7r8aFSsHwfFh821wjQAAJ1A9mk8a0luj1TJO2sh3zRLgAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYQAAAAAA=
