I should add . . . re tailheavy KR's . . . my first KR was an original
canvas-seat standard KR with no mods so that's what I was basing my
comment on. As nose gears got added and fuselages got lengthened (such
as with my current one 15 ft. 8.5 inches), the tail heaviness with two
people situation
At 03:51 PM 5/12/2016, you wrote:
>A couple years ago there was a Japanese
>tourist wave riding over the Sierras that got clipped by a Hawker and
>only survived because he had a chute. That and all the other stories of
>sailplanes colliding in thermals or suffering structural failure would
>prompt
Lots of discussion of parachutes lately with related subjects of
sailplanes, structural failures, flying over solid cloud decks, etc.
Various thoughts:
KR's tend to be "tail heavy" from the factory. As fuel is consumed this
feature gets even worse. The KR-2 with two people in it is ridiculou
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