The 85 hp midget racer ‘Tater Chip’ was built by Ned Kensinger of Aircraft Repair Service, Peoria, Ill. It achieved 265 mph in level flight.
Kensinger Tater Chip
Post WW2
Kensgaila RT-7
Flying Lab SL-2 1968.
Kensgaila VK-8 K-20 / OC-3
A two seat glider of 1959.
Kensgaila RT-2
A single seat glider of 1958.
Kensgaila Aircraft Enterprise
Lithuania
V. Kensgaila designed nine top-class self-made aircrafts in the skies rose by more than a dozen of its smaller planes constructed.
First flew in 1989 the VK-8 Ausra two-seat agricultural aircraft.
Kelly Kelly-D
Designed by Dudley R. Kelly, the Kelly was was available as plans only. The wings are detachable.
Engine: Lycoming O-235, 115 hp.
Height: 7.8 ft.
Length: 19.2 ft.
Wing span: 26.3 ft.
Wing area: 230 sq.ft.
Speed max: 105 mph.
Cruise: 90 mph.
Range: 270 sm.
Stall: 55 mph.
ROC: 800 fpm.
Take-off dist: 400 ft.
Landing dist: 600 ft.
HP range: 100-125.
Fuel cap: 24 USG.
Weight empty: 950 lbs.
Gross: 1500 lbs.
Seats: 2.
Landing gear: tail wheel.
Kelly, Dudley
1995: Rt.4, Box 194, Versailles, KY 40383, USA.
Markets plans to build Kelly-D and Hatz CB-1 tandem two-seat biplanes, the latter originally designed by John Hatz and first flown 1968.
Kellett KH-17A
Experimental conversion of a standard Kellett KD-IB Autgiro into a convertiplane, for the U.S. Navy. Chief external changes are addition of wings and two wing-mounied engines. Was due to fly in 1955.
Engine: 1 x 275 hp Jacobs and 2 x 140 hp Lycoming
Rotor diameter: 40 ft
Rotors: 3-blade main; 3 propellers
Length (blades folded): 25 ft 11 in
Loaded weight: 3,400 lb
Seats: 1.
Kellett KH-15
In 1954 the first helicopters with rocket-driven rotors were flown; the Kellett KH-15 and Rotor-craft RH-1.
Nicknamed ‘Stable Mable’, the KH-15 has been built for the U.S. Navy to test a new system oft gyro-abilisng cotrols. It flew after only 8 minutes of tethered tests. Power units are tip-mounted hydrogen peroxide rocket motors.
Power: 2 Reaction Motors XLR32 rockets
Rotors: 2-blade tip-powered main rotor and tail rotor
Rotor diameter: 18 ft
Loaded weight: 644 lb
Seats: 1
Kearney & Trecker
Kearney & Trecker Milling Machine Company was — probably still is — located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the 1950’s and 60’s they leased 2 hangers on the west side of General Billy Mitchell Field in Milwaukee next to the Air National Guard with it’s F-86’s. The north hanger housed the business aviation division of the milling machine company. They had a DC-3, a Cessna 182, a Piaggio Royal Gull, and an aero-coupe.
I was 10 years old in 1958 and my dad (Brian Heath) was the mechanic for the operation, co-pilot on the DC-3, and pilot on the others. They flew milling machine sales people and maintenance people around the eastern U.S. And they often flew the company owners and brass on vacations and fishing trips.
The south hanger housed Kearney & Trecker’s other business investment — a contract with Piaggio in Italy to assemble and sell Royal Gulls. Later the P-166 executive plane was added. The first P-166 at Mitchell Field was a prototype. It was the only one I ever saw, but I did ride in it several times. While the two businesses were legally separate, the mechanics/pilots often consulted with each other.
Brian Heath
All Aero 