I was asking for the reason for the delay, not trying to blame Steve. It's obviously Jeanette Rand's fault. Ken Rand died when the design of the KR was still evolving and the plans were little more than a first draft. It's tragic there was never anyone else at Rand-Robinson who was interested in correcting the errors in the plans and improving the KR's design. (Of course many people here have done that, but you aren't the official supplier, so the defective plans keep getting sold and everyone has to rediscover the errors afresh).
If Ken had been a careful pilot and stuck around awhile, he could have been another Burt Rutan, and the KR could have been the first of many brilliant designs. Instead Rand-Robinson became a printing shop that did little for 40 years but reprint and sell the same set of plans, and now they apparently can hardly even do that. Mike Taglieri On Jun 16, 2015 10:33 PM, "Virgil N.Salisbury via KRnet" < krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > > Lighten up Mike. Walk in Steve's shoes for a while. If you want > to discourage some from building any KR, you are doing a bang > up job, Virg > Broad shoulders, Thick skin ! > > > On 6/16/2015 6:34 PM, Mike T via KRnet wrote: > >> What's the reason for these extraordinary delays? Lots of older >> plansbuilt >> plane designs (some going back to the 1950s) have let Aircraft Spruce take >> over the printing and shipping of plans. If nvaero isn't able to handle >> it, maybe they should consider that. (Or are they getting the plans from >> Jeanette Rand?) Whoever it is, this could make people give up before they >> even start. >> >> Mike Taglieri >> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Robert Dunleavy via KRnet < >> krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: >> >> I ordered my plans in early Feb. , Emailed nvaero about the status last >>> week, got a prompt reply which indicated the plans should be shipping out >>> soon....robert >>> >>> >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options >
