Curiosity got the best of me, so I had to fly down to Gene Knight's
place again to check out his "inline twin" KR, and take some more recent
pictures. I posted them below the 2010 construction photos, at
http://krnet.org/krs/gknight/ . Some pretty cool workmanship, and
plenty of bells and whistles, like the retractable step in front of the
pilot's wing. There are some drawings of things like the "Mooney"
landing gear near the bottom. It has flown, once, but was close enough
to aft CG that he installed the Jabiru to move the CG a bit more
forward....just never quite finished the job. Definitely "low time"....
Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.n56ml.com
Huntsville, AL
On 6/17/2022 12:17 PM, Mark Langford wrote:
Larry Flesner wrote:
> Where has this one been hiding?
>
https://www.barnstormers.com/classified-1744570-Twin-engine-center-line-thrust.html?catid=18869
I've seen that plane before....flew down to his strip in Mississippi to
visit and see his Skymaster-like KR. Gene lived near Mobile before
that, and he and his son came to a KR Gathering where he showed us a
model of what he was building. I have a picture back on one of the
Gathering pages of him and the model, and I'm surprised he never
finished it, because it was certainly getting there when I saw it. He
was building it on his farm, and had his own 16' wide asphalt runway,
which I successfully landed N56ML on!
The moral of his story (and so many others), is to finish building the
damn plane, because you are one failed medical away from not being able
to fly anymore!
Tommy...one pusher, one puller, think Skymaster.
Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.n56ml.com
Huntsville, AL
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