KR> another sunset picture...

2009-03-07 Thread CldLk-Tim
Nice shade of Blue, fits in with th movie I'm presently watching from the Computer Desk. Pearl Harbor, Pilots> Baldwin, Affleck ;-) CldLk-Tim

KR> another sunset picture...

2009-03-07 Thread Mark Langford
NetHeads, See http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/sunsets/090307217m.jpg for today's sunset picture. Not the greatest, but better than no sunset at all, and I'll take what I can get at this point. No sunset at all yesterdayit was overcast. I couldn't make it to Dana's today, since the ceili

KR> Mt. Vernon

2009-03-07 Thread laser...@juno.com
> Thought I'd mention that a couple weeks after the KR Gathering, Mt. Vernon > Airport will be hosting a Midwest LSA Expo. If you fly in & out of MVN, watch out for the idiot(s) with the ultralights who fly up and down the runways without talking or listening on the radio. I had to abort a take

KR> Re: Hershey Bar wing

2009-03-07 Thread smwood
Rich, The Hershey bar wing on the Cherokee 140 works just fine. Just as the article that Mark Langford came up with does state. However, one has to be careful how parts are cobbled together. The whole aircraft is a collection of trade-offs and compromises. Our KR-2 and KR-2S aircraft are no e

KR> nav lights

2009-03-07 Thread Darren Crompton
can not figure out how to initiate a message. All you need to do is send the email to kr...@mylist.net and it gets posted. Any thoughts on how to best retrofit wiring the completed wings. I don't want to do anything that would alter the airfoil or weaken the structural integrety of the wing De

KR> nav lights

2009-03-07 Thread Dan Heath
There are some pics of the process Colin Rainey went through to do exactly that at: http://krbuilder.org/Colin/index.html -Original Message- no provision for nav lights. Any thoughts on how to best retrofit wiring the completed wings. I don't want to do anything that would alter the ai

KR> nav lights

2009-03-07 Thread Chuck Pullen
Sorry to use this method of getting a message out to the list. I have been a read only follower of the list for several years and can not figure out how to initiate a message. I bought a partially completed kr2 and the wings were built with no provision for nav lights. Any thoughts on how to

KR> Re: Wing platforms

2009-03-07 Thread CldLk-Tim
John, mine 1st Printing 1985 (Tab Books) Yes, very good book, cuts to the Case. another good bedside reader is Harry Riblett's GA Airfoils. I bought a copy for a guy who designed a plane with an expanding chord Airfoil (yeah you read that right) several are now being built by HB'ers CldLk-Tim

KR> Re: Wing platforms

2009-03-07 Thread CldLk-Tim
and the disappointment factor is 10x less ;-) - Original Message - From: "Larry&Sallie Flesner" Use the time you will spend reading and designing changes to build according to the plans. The payback is greater by a factor of 10 Larry Flesner

KR> LSA event - Mt Vernon

2009-03-07 Thread Larry&Sallie Flesner
At 01:36 PM 3/7/2009, you wrote: >Thought I'd mention that a couple weeks after the KR Gathering, Mt. Vernon >Airport will be hosting a Midwest LSA Expo. , October 1-3. See >http://midwestlsashow.com/ for details. Someone dubbed it a "mini Sebring." >Some of you that are close, may want to return

KR> Re: Wing platforms

2009-03-07 Thread Larry&Sallie Flesner
At 10:45 AM 3/7/2009, you wrote: >On page 36 starts a section covering span , lift, aspect ratios, etc. >The piece addresses the characteristics of different platforms using >both equations, graphs and illustrations. > >Excellent reading if your into this. > >John Milland +

KR> LSA event - Mt Vernon

2009-03-07 Thread Ed Janssen
Thought I'd mention that a couple weeks after the KR Gathering, Mt. Vernon Airport will be hosting a Midwest LSA Expo. , October 1-3. See http://midwestlsashow.com/ for details. Someone dubbed it a "mini Sebring." Some of you that are close, may want to return to Mt Vernon for this one. Larry

KR> Re: Wing platforms

2009-03-07 Thread J M
Re: Hershy bar and other wing platforms. There is an excellent book called "The Illustrated Guide to Aerodynamics" by H.C. "Skip" Smith who is/was the director of undergraduate studies in aerospace engineering at Pennsylvania State University. It was published by TAB Books a Division of M

KR> Fw: Re:

2009-03-07 Thread Bobby Murty
To all you wanna be engineers.My friend John was a retired USAF test pilot...He had 40 years of test pilot stuff under his belt, as well as all the engineering stuff that the Air Force requires for all of their elite test pilots... As Larry says every time you "experiment" there can