From: krnet-bounces@mylist.net To: John Bouyea Subject: KRnet Digest, Vol 347, Issue 493 Date: 12/1/2005 9:00:31 PM Send KRnet mailing list submissions to krnet@mylist.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mylist.net/listinfo/krnet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to krnet-request@mylist.net You can reach the person managing the list at krnet-owner@mylist.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of KRnet digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Gathering web page "Heads-up" thanks (Frank Ross) 2. reason to own your own airplane (Oscar Zuniga) 3. reason to own your own airplane (Pitts Eric MSgt 181FW/MXOO) 4. Re: reason to own your own airplane (Orma) 5. dragonfly(?) (larry severson) 6. KRnet administration (Mark Langford) 7. Re: reason to own your own airplane (Steven Phillabaum) 8. Re: mixture leaning/was engine heat (jscott.pilot@juno.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 03:01:45 -0800 (PST) From: Frank Ross Subject: KR> Gathering web page "Heads-up" thanks To: KRnet Message-ID: <20051201110145.78554.qmail@web32001.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Have you been to http://www.krgathering.org/ > lately and checked > out the work of Bob Lee .... > Thanks Bob !! > Check it out now !!!! > > I'd ask "how many days till the Gathering?" but I > guess we can wait > until after the first of the year to start the > countdown. > > Larry Flesner Larry, Thanks for the "heads-up"! Bob has done a beautiful job indeed. Thanks Bob! Frank Frank Ross, EAA Chapter 35, San Geronimo, TX RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, England, UK Visit my photo album at: http://photos.yahoo.com/alamokr2 __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:57:23 -0600 From: "Oscar Zuniga" Subject: KR> reason to own your own airplane To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com, krnet@mylist.net, corvaircraft@mylist.net, sqrlnet@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed This is a good article, especially for those of us with youngsters. Well worth reading! http://www.beechaeroclub.org/displayarticle324.html Oscar Zuniga San Antonio, TX mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com website at http://www.flysquirrel.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:51:07 -0500 From: Pitts Eric MSgt 181FW/MXOO Subject: KR> reason to own your own airplane To: krnet@mylist.net Message-ID: <200512011951.jB1Jp8mq027402@phantom1.region4.ang.af.mil> Content-Type: text/plain That was a great article, I can just see that happening. Eric Pitts Terre Haute IN KR2S http://home.att.net/~e.j.pitts/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:56:00 -0500 From: "Orma" Subject: Re: KR> reason to own your own airplane To: "KRnet" Message-ID: <004001c5f6b9$a3fb5f70$0302a8c0@ROBBINS1> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I hate to jump in and add another Me Too, but if you are building a KR and have young kids, you'll appreciate the story. Orma ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:42:57 -0800 From: larry severson Subject: KR> dragonfly(?) To: KRnet Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.0.20051201144214.02edbc00@socal.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > >Can't find the plane. Point me there please! Larry Severson Fountain Valley, CA 92708 (714) 968-9852 larry2@socal.rr.com ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 21:30:01 -0600 From: "Mark Langford" Subject: KR> KRnet administration To: "KRnet" Message-ID: <036601c5f6f0$adf13fe0$1202a8c0@1700xp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I'd like to point out that anybody that posts a message thoroughly flaming somebody publicly to 600 people without first contacting the flamee to see if there is some possible resolution to his complaint will be unsubscribed and banned from the list, period. This is not a democracy...I'm in charge. Any questions? If you don't know how you're expected to act on this list, please read http://www.krnet.org/info.html . If you don't want to play by the rules, please unsubscribe yourself and save me the trouble... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 22:49:29 -0500 From: Steven Phillabaum Subject: Re: KR> reason to own your own airplane To: KRnet Message-ID: <4enh25$1n2odpe@mxip13a.cluster1.charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To bring joy to youngsters eyes like this brings tears to my eyes. Got to love the children. Today they are children tomorrow they will be adults. > > From: "Oscar Zuniga" > Date: 2005/12/01 Thu PM 12:57:23 EST > To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com, krnet@mylist.net, corvaircraft@mylist.net, > sqrlnet@yahoogroups.com > Subject: KR> reason to own your own airplane > > This is a good article, especially for those of us with youngsters. > Well > worth reading! > > http://www.beechaeroclub.org/displayarticle324.html > > Oscar Zuniga > San Antonio, TX > mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com > website at http://www.flysquirrel.net > > Steven Phillabaum KR2S; 5048; corvair; Auburn, Alabama ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:06:31 -0700 From: jscott.pilot@juno.com Subject: Re: KR> mixture leaning/was engine heat To: krnet@mylist.net Message-ID: <20051201.201716.2592.0.jscott.pilot@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The common fix for this is to use 100LL fuel. Any aviation engine that is 9:1 compression will also be tagged as 100LL minimum fuel octane rating. That changes the lean detonation back into a harmless misfire. Jeff Scott On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:32:51 -0600 "Oscar Zuniga" writes: > I'll toss out a snip from William Wynne's "broken crank" webpage > since it > deals with leaning the mixture and may be of interest not just to > KR/Vair > operators: > ========================== > When leaning, he would lean until he saw a decrease in airspeed, and > then > slightly enrichen it. The evidence at teardown showed that either > this > leaning technique or his Ellison EFS-3A installation was the cause > of lean > operation and evidence of detonation. In many installations, > especially > aircraft without mufflers or flown by pilots with headsets, > detonation in > the plane cannot be heard. It is important that pilots trained in > flying > Cessna 150s to lean the aircraft until the engine runs slightly > rough and > then enrichen it slightly, should not use this technique on a > Corvair > engine, especially below 8,000 feet. The difference is simple: a > Continental or Lycoming with a compression ratio in the 7:1 range, > when > excessively leaned from cruise power settings, will experience a > lean > misfire in the cylinder. A lean misfire is a harmless event > compared to > detonation. Here, the air/fuel mixture has reached a point where it > will > not ignite. Conversely, leaning an engine with a 9:1 compression > ratio like > a Corvair has the potential to detonate the engine long before it > lean > misfires. This is aggravated by high available density, as in low > altitudes > or throttle openings yielding MAPs more than 24". Corvair engines > can be > leaned, it just requires an EGT and common sense. The contribution > of > detonation to crank failure will be the hardest factor to replicate, > model > or evaluate. But, successful builders will avoid detonation for a > multitude > of reasons, not just its potential contribution to crank failures. > ============================== > > > Oscar Zuniga > San Antonio, TX > mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com > website at http://www.flysquirrel.net > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ See KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html End of KRnet Digest, Vol 347, Issue 493 *************************************** ================================== ABC Amber Outlook Converter v4.20 Trial version ==================================