I made my first five flights in my KR-2 as a tail dragger on a long paved and wide runway. The last landing was hard enough to bend the left main gear and send the wheel partially into the stub wing. It also scraped the right wing tip on the trailing edge. There were three fire engines that showed up and one wanted to spray my plane with foam but there was no fuel leakage or fire. After that incident I redesigned my landing gear to tri gear and had much better times with it. The KR-2 is too short for a tail wheel. Maybe the 2-S is OK once you're used to it but the shorter "2" is no fun at all with a tail wheel. With a nose wheel up front that is fully faired in only adds about 12 lbs. of weight and sets the CG a bit foreword which I can really notice in flight. I made one flight without the nose fairing and lost about four mph in cruse speed. The shimmy damper I made was quite a learning experience and kept the nose wheel from rattling the nose of the plane on takeoff.
Joe Scappoose Ore. Message: 1 List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:29:09 -0700 From: laser...@juno.com Subject: Re: KR> tri gear and taildragger To: kr...@mylist.net Message-ID: <20100328.232909.2076.6.laser...@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > "Who on the Net has flown both, and what is the difference????"
