From: KR-net users group digest[SMTP:kr-net@telelists.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 12:17 AM To: kr-net digest recipients Subject: kr-net digest: July 27, 1999 KR-net users group Digest for Tuesday, July 27, 1999. 1. VW heads.....Thanks 2. engine for sale 3. 2nd flight 4. weight and balance 5. Re: Posa 6. Re: ELT'S 7. Re: Posa 8. Flight Report 9. Re: Posa (adressing issues) 10. Re: Flight Report 11. Re: Flight Report ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: VW heads.....Thanks From: "fly" Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:50:52 +1200 X-Message-Number: 1 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00B8_01BED871.B7003220 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks to the twenty odd who responded to my request. Appears to be = overwelming support for CB Performance Products. Have sent a request for = prices for both bare and complete 044 heads with 94mm bore and big = valves.Hope to have her flying within the next two months,oh and we are = expecting two new KR's at the next fly-in. Hopefully that will make it=20 1-------KR-1 3-------KR-2 3-------KR-2S This year I promise to get some pics of us all together.The previous = year I spent all weekend repairing broken rudder pedal hinges and missed = most of the action. That makes for a lot of KR'S in little New Zealand. Thanks again to the list, David J Stuart, Wellington New Zealand. Email: fly@paradise.net.nz Pictures: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~fly =20 ------=_NextPart_000_00B8_01BED871.B7003220 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Thanks to the twenty odd who responded = to my=20 request. Appears to be overwelming support for CB Performance Products. = Have=20 sent a request for prices for both bare and complete 044 heads with 94mm = bore=20 and big valves.Hope to have her flying within the next two months,oh and = we are=20 expecting  two new KR's at the next fly-in. Hopefully that will = make it=20
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This year I promise to get some pics of = us all=20 together.The previous year I spent all weekend repairing broken rudder = pedal=20 hinges and missed most of the action. That makes for a lot of KR'S in = little New=20 Zealand.
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------=_NextPart_000_00B8_01BED871.B7003220-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: engine for sale From: "Oscar Zuniga" Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 04:22:49 PDT X-Message-Number: 2 Here's an ad from another list, for anybody who is looking to clone Mike's "Sky Pig". Don't reply to this list if you're interested; email this guy directly. -------------------------- >From: "David Hiatt" >Subject: 0-290 for sale >Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:01:28 -0700 > >Hey I've got one of those converted 0-290's for sale (great price) >tell >your friends if they're looking for such a thing. > >David L. Hiatt >Seattle, Washington _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 2nd flight From: "Oscar Zuniga" Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:07:18 PDT X-Message-Number: 3 Mike T wrote: > >I flew the KR again on Thursday for over an hour and did a fun test. . . > >What kind of KR was this? > (And here's where I'm like the little kid in school who waves his hand so the teacher can see that he knows the answer:) Paul's bird is a KR-2 that he bought completed and flying, a bit chunky and tired, but decided to convert from retract taildragger to fixed trigear. It's essentially stock dimensionally, has just the header tank, and an 1835 VW with a POSA and single mag. Paul rebuilt the VW and went through the whole airplane, refining and updating little stuff from spinner to tailpost. Paul's stripped KR was the inspiration for me to start building something, a year ago. If any of you guys are sitting there just planning and dreaming, go find somebody who is building or flying and visit them... better yet, sit in a KR... then just do it. Must really be a rush to feel those tires break ground and watch the altimeter start winding up. Oscar Zuniga Medford, Oregon website at http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Dropzone/5610/ _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: weight and balance From: "Oscar Zuniga" Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 07:41:08 PDT X-Message-Number: 4 Interesting tip in Experimenter magazine. When you're doing your weight and balance (weighing your newly-completed airplane), as long as you have the scales and everything set up, don't just record the empty weight. Go ahead and take readings with known weights in the seats, baggage area, and fuel tank(s)...one condition at a time. After you've calculated the empty CG, you can get the moment arm lengths for each of the variable loading items by calculation if you know the weights for each condition. Most CG calculations make approximations for the actual distances of pilot/passengers, fuel tanks, and baggage area from datum. It's a bit more accurate to get those actual moment arms by weighing and then calculating the exact locations. If you have odd-shaped fuel tanks (or an odd-shaped body), you could be off by a little bit if you estimate the centroids. Actual weighing gives you hard numbers. Oscar Zuniga Medford, Oregon website at http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Dropzone/5610/ _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Posa From: Bobby Muse Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:28:17 -0500 X-Message-Number: 5 At 08:50 PM 07/26/1999 EDT, you wrote: > Please answer this to my email at patatst@aol.com Pat Driscoll > >--- Dear Almost Everybody; Like Mark Langford said a while back..... Please, Everybody setup your 'email signature' to read: "Your Name" followed on the next line by: mailto:your@name.com or mailto:your@name.net or mailto:patatst@aol.com That is "mailto:" followed by "your email address" without any spaces. If everyone would do this it allow someone on the krnet to email you back personally just by selecting your mailto:address. That's without everyone else on the krnet receiving your personal message. Sure would cut down on traffic. Besides there are a number of messages that I would respond to for help personally if all I had to do was select the mailto:address and send a quick message. To see how easy it is, just click on my mailto:address built into my signature. Bobby Muse mailto:bmuse@mindspring.com Wimberly, TX ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: ELT'S From: Middleton Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:11:03 -0700 X-Message-Number: 6 ------ =_NextPart_000_01BED874.895E09C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable W.G. Kirkland is correct, ELT's work as they should in the hands of = survivors. Boaters have used ELT's for a long time, the difference being = they are water resistant and are normally being used by a survivor. = Electronics will not transmit under water, SONAR yes, radio transmitters = no. =20 -----Original Message----- From: w.g. kirkland [SMTP:kirkland@vianet.on.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 8:43 AM To: KR-net users group Subject: [kr-net] Re: ELT'S Mike & Terri; We had a recent crash here. The ELT didn't work. It was broken up in the crash. They aren't crash proof. Where they are really usefull is when the crash is controlled enough that there are survivors. = In 4 yrs on S&R never did find one that workedby itself. If you think the = ones we have now are expensive wait till u see the price of the next = generation. 3k+. Incidently this guy took off in below IFR limits with no IFR = rating, in fact his licence wasn't valid. he was flying an Mu2. wE FOUND HIM = LESS THAN A MILE FROM THE A/P.=20 W.G. KIRKLAND kirkland@vianet.on.ca ---------- > From: garbez > To: KR-net users group > Subject: [kr-net] ELT'S > Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 11:42 PM >=20 > I would like your thoughts on a subject that has me very upset. With = the > crash of JFK Jr.'s airplane and many others, it has come to mind that = the > ELT's required by the FAA don't work. More times than not searchers = look > for crash sites for days or more. If the ELT worked it should take = only > hours to find any signal. What's wrong with the technology that it = takes so > long to find the signal if it is located at all? I understand how important > ELT's are and a great idea, but it seems they don't work as well as = they > could and as they are now are just added weight. What's the answer to this > piece of equipment that is quite expensive and doesn't seem to do the = job as > well as it should. We all depend on them in an emergency and would = like > them to help rescures find us as soon as possible, hours not days or weeks, > or maybe not at all. Is anyone else concerned? I think we as a group could > do something to bring the awareness of the inadequate ELT into the = public > eye. 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Bobby Muse mailto:bmuse@mindspring.com Wimberly, TX >> Didn't work for me Bobby but then that might just be AOL's program. If I reply to someone privately, I just hightlight and copy the address that's in the "From" line in the header and hit "Reply" on my AOL program, delete the "kr-net@telelists.com" address line, paste in the copied private address and I'm set.....never been a problem for me. Jim Hayward Rapid City, SD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Flight Report From: "garbez" Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:07:56 -0500 X-Message-Number: 8 KR-2 N998MG has not flown yet. I think this is the longest taxie testing in history, 6 months!! I still can't get over first flight jitters, as I am only a 70 hour pilot flying Cherokee 140's and have no stick time. Also it has been to hot and humid here to be sitting in the cockpit for much time on the ground. As I have read in the KR-NET that most first flights are flown by test pilots I wish I had one but I don't. Also I have been reading about props and RPM's. I have an 1835 VW with a Revflow carb, 044 heads with duel ignition, and a 52-46 prop. I have tried everything to get the RPM's above 2800 but no luck. It seems that 2800 is all she has. What should the engine top out at with this configuration? One other question, I would like you guys to try to answer that scares me the most about first flight is that with the engine setup and the airplane weighing 700 lbs. empty, is thing going to fly or not???? We will see y'all in Kentucky, 4th year and driving again. Thanks, Mike Garbez N998MG msgtlg@netins.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Posa (adressing issues) From: Mike Mims Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:15:14 -0700 X-Message-Number: 9 JEHayward@aol.com wrote: > > > Didn't work for me Bobby but then that might just be AOL's program. > > Jim Hayward > Rapid City, SD > > That's because you AOL users don't count! :o) I have also heard that many of the AOL users can not get to most of the Geocities web sites. Is this true? I would like to move my site somewhere else but its hard to beat 15 meg for free. On another note, did anyone determine where a 2180 VW balances? Also for you engineer types, besides the extra weight what, if any are the disadvantages to making the main center spar solid? I noticed that the center main spar on the WAR Corsair is solid and the outer wings are much like the KR. Just curious as to stress risers and things. I guess it really doesn't qualify as a stress riser since the spar would have continuous strength. Anyway email me off net as this isn't really a "per plans" question. Also would any of you care to design a WAF that would be good to say 1500 pounds gross with a plus and minus working load of say 4gs? -- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Micheal Mims Filling and Sanding again! http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/4136/ http://members.home.com/mikemims/ Aliso Viejo CA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Flight Report From: Kobus de Wet Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 07:03:46 +0200 X-Message-Number: 10 My 2 Lt type 4 has a 52 x 56 on at the moment and I get 2800 rpm static at sea level, the KR is 600 lbs. and gets off the ground easy. Cheers Kobus de Wet Cape Town South Africa GMT +2.00 Ph +27-21-988-3671 Fax +27-21-987-1850 Cell 082-424-0194 http://home.intekom.com/kobusdw -----Original Message----- From: garbez To: KR-net users group Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 06:11 Subject: [kr-net] Flight Report KR-2 N998MG has not flown yet. I think this is the longest taxie testing in history, 6 months!! I still can't get over first flight jitters, as I am only a 70 hour pilot flying Cherokee 140's and have no stick time. Also it has been to hot and humid here to be sitting in the cockpit for much time on the ground. As I have read in the KR-NET that most first flights are flown by test pilots I wish I had one but I don't. Also I have been reading about props and RPM's. I have an 1835 VW with a Revflow carb, 044 heads with duel ignition, and a 52-46 prop. I have tried everything to get the RPM's above 2800 but no luck. It seems that 2800 is all she has. What should the engine top out at with this configuration? One other question, I would like you guys to try to answer that scares me the most about first flight is that with the engine setup and the airplane weighing 700 lbs. empty, is thing going to fly or not???? We will see y'all in Kentucky, 4th year and driving again. Thanks, Mike Garbez N998MG msgtlg@netins.net --- You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: jfdewet@intekom.co.za To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-17800J@telelists.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Flight Report From: Kobus de Wet Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 07:10:39 +0200 X-Message-Number: 11 Sorry that last one was a bit over the top the prop is a 52 x 46 My 2 Lt type 4 has a 52 x 56 on at the moment and I get 2800 rpm static at sea level, the KR is 600 lbs. and gets off the ground easy. Cheers Kobus de Wet Cape Town South Africa GMT +2.00 Ph +27-21-988-3671 Fax +27-21-987-1850 Cell 082-424-0194 http://home.intekom.com/kobusdw -----Original Message----- From: garbez To: KR-net users group Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 06:11 Subject: [kr-net] Flight Report KR-2 N998MG has not flown yet. I think this is the longest taxie testing in history, 6 months!! I still can't get over first flight jitters, as I am only a 70 hour pilot flying Cherokee 140's and have no stick time. Also it has been to hot and humid here to be sitting in the cockpit for much time on the ground. As I have read in the KR-NET that most first flights are flown by test pilots I wish I had one but I don't. Also I have been reading about props and RPM's. I have an 1835 VW with a Revflow carb, 044 heads with duel ignition, and a 52-46 prop. I have tried everything to get the RPM's above 2800 but no luck. It seems that 2800 is all she has. What should the engine top out at with this configuration? One other question, I would like you guys to try to answer that scares me the most about first flight is that with the engine setup and the airplane weighing 700 lbs. empty, is thing going to fly or not???? We will see y'all in Kentucky, 4th year and driving again. Thanks, Mike Garbez N998MG msgtlg@netins.net --- You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: jfdewet@intekom.co.za To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-17800J@telelists.com --- You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: jfdewet@intekom.co.za To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-17800J@telelists.com --- END OF DIGEST --- You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: johnbou@timberline.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-17800J@telelists.com