Project: KR2 / Corvair
KR2 home-built aircraft in flight
KR-2
The KR-2 is a high speed two-place side-by-side monoplane. As with all KR's, the KR-2 is equipped with removable wings, and your choice of fixed conventional or tricycle gear.
Corvair
The Corvair engine is a 164 cubic inch (2,700cc), horizontally-opposed, six-cylinder, air-cooled power plant. General Motors produced 1.7 million Corvairs between 1960 and 1969. All of these high quality engines have hydraulic lifters, torsional vibration dampeners, full flow oil systems, spin on oil filters, and aluminum cases and cylinder heads.
Corvair engines have been powering experimental aircraft since 1960. Flying hundreds of hours, EAA members Bernie Pietenpol and Waldo Waterman demonstrated that the Corvair engine made an excellent aircraft power plant.
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