Plans will become like Corvair engine blocks! Next to impossible to find. I downloaded the complete set back in the day when you could find them on the Net. DJ N40WS KR2 current JT1 builder
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 8:14 AM Flesner <fles...@frontier.com> wrote: > On 1/16/2022 11:11 PM, John Martindale wrote: > > Buy a set of plans from Jeanette like the rest of us have. Support her > as she has us over the decades. > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > To eliminate any confusion I'll state it one more time, directly from > Jeanette rand on 1/16/2022. > > No one, including Steve Glover, is authorized by Rand Robinson (Jeanette > Rand) to sell plans created by Rand Robinson to the KR series of > aircraft. Steve Glover never owned the "copyright" but was authorized > by Rand to sell copies of plans produced by Rand. That is no longer the > case. Jeanette's words were "the plans are off the market" and I'm > retired". Jeanette has no problem with Steve selling parts or > supporting the design in any way other than selling plans. > > While we may personally agree or disagree with that decision it is the > reality we face. While I personally don't see a great liability issue > given 50 years of KR crashes, deaths, and injuries, without any lawsuits > that I'm aware of, it's not my bank account they would come after. I > suspect it wouldn't be hard to prove that any KR flying was not "built > to plans" to avoid liability but again, I have no skin in the game. > > On the other hand I personally see no legal issues in someone selling an > unused set of KR plans. You did not sign away your right of transfer of > personal property and I can sell my entire KR, built to plans, sort of, > if I chose. > > Finally, I don't expect to see any legal issues, other than someone > producing and selling new sets of plans, with anything that anyone does > with unused plans they own. What legal issue is being violated? > IMHO...... > > I also don't see a problem with someone producing an entirely new set of > plans to a new aircraft incorporating all the changes and calling it a > Gismo 2 and selling those plans. All aircraft have the same parts, > wings, tail, fuselage, spars, landing gear, engines, etc., it's just the > proportions that change. Any substantial change makes it a new and > different aircraft. > > Value my "opinions" by the price you paid for them. > > Larry Flesner > ________________________________ > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -Change list delivery options at > https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board > -Search recent KRnet Archives at > https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ > -Search <https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/-Search> > John Bouyea's decades of archive at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
