KR> Fuel $
( All amounts in US dollars as converted at today's rate) Well, I've just done a check here in the UK, and the average price for Avgas is $2.10 per LITRE... ordinary unleaded auto petrol (sorry, gas) cost me today at our local supermarket $1.58 a litre. It cost me $92.20 to fill my car this afternoon. yep, we pay through the nose in tax for almost everything here. 20 cigarettes will take about $8.50 out of the flying fund for every 20 you buy. A reasonable bottle of Scotch Whisky well set you back over $22.00.(And we make it here) With taxes like this it's not surprising to see people moaning about the prices of everything, and I mean EVERYTHING over here. At the flying club I visit, albeit not as often as I would wish now I am retired, an hour in a Cessna 152 will cost over $180. A belated happy new year to one and all, and all that you wish for yourselves in 2005 Terry Jones, disgruntled of the UK. > >
KR> Gathering photos, finally...
Hi All, this is my first posting. Looked like a nice gathering of people 'n aircraft. Shame it all happened over 5000 miles away. I am in the UK, over in East Anglia, almost as far away from the US as you can get in England. Question:- Are there any/many KR2S builders in the UK, as I am looking into this as a possible project. The problem seems to be (apart from the restraints of the CAA/PFA) that all material has to be sourced from the States. This means that timber for example cost almost as much for shipping/delivery as it does to buy. Anyway, good luck to all you existing builders, and may the space between your bum and the ground never reduce faster than you intend Terry Jones > >
KR> Materials
Hi Colin/Bev and others. I am not yet involved building, just 'studying' as a potential project. I have seen the notes re the fuselage construction, but bear in mind that if it deviates from the PFA (our version almost of the EAA) approved design, then the CAA (Cancel Amateur Aviation) would be down like the proverbial 'ton of bricks' . I would have to supply all stress figures, bending forces, the list is endless. You are lucky there Stateside in that you can use your own discretion to a large degree, here we would have to seek out the 'powers to be' even if it were to be painted a different colour almost... Terry Jones. Colin & Bev Rainey wrote: >Terry > >To help reduce your costs you may want to build the fuselage the way Eduardo >and Dr Dean did out of the spruce frame and glass over foam core. This is the >way all do the wings now, and many are starting to do the fuselage. Some >thoughts for economy without loss of strength. The Vision has been built this >way and is proven to be as strong given same weights. > >Colin & Bev Rainey >KR2(td) N96TA >Sanford, FL >crain...@cfl.rr.com >http://kr-builder.org/Colin/index.html >___ >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > >
KR> UK builders
Hi All. 'Twould seem that my thoughts on building the KR2S in the UK will not be coming to pass. This morning I had a communiqué from the PFA telling me that the machine as yet is NOT type approved in the UK. Good luck to all of you out there having fun building/flying yours. Terry Jones. >___ >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > >
