Iād like help with that. We can discuss details at the Gathering. Griff From: KRnet <krnet-boun...@list.krnet.org> On Behalf Of Larry Flesner via KRnet Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 5:55 PM To: David Swanson <sast...@gmail.com>; KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> Cc: Larry Flesner <fles...@frontier.com> Subject: KRnet> KR community challenge
Several days ago I mentioned the EAA "Homebuilders Hall of Fame" and wondered if Ken and Stu had ever been inducted and if not, why not. Mike Simmons posted me off net with some info he researched and the nominating form. I had a nice conversation with Jeanette Rand this afternoon and she expressed her grateful thanks to anyone taking on the project of having them inducted. I would suggest that it would be fitting to include her name on the nominating petition as she was with Ken from the beginning and she ran the company for 30 years after Ken's death. She has lost track of Stu after all these years after he moved to northern California. It sure would be nice if we could contact Stu as part of this project. My challenge to group is someone or a committee take on the project of putting together the info to submit a nominating petition for their induction to the Homebuilders Hall of Fame. I provided Jeanette with a copy of the form and she will start making some notes to help write the petition. I would like to set a goal of submitting the petition by the deadline for next year of March 31. Some of the interesting details she shared was that the long wing motor glider was Stu's KR and that Stu did much of the building on the amphibian. https://www.eaa.org/-/media/files/eaa/homebuilders/2018-hb-hall-of-fame-nomination-form.ashx Considering the thousands of hours many of us have spent in flying KR aircraft and with KRs having been built on probably every continent except Antarctica, I think their induction is long overdue. Let's make it happen. Larry Flesner P.S. I think I have Jeanette's autograph on one of my photo albums when she visited my project 25+ years ago and 211LF is flying with EAA founder Paul Poberezny and Rudy Frasca (builder of flight simulators) autograph on the back of the seat back. I didn't have a marker with me when I met Orville and Wilbur at the airport or I'd have their autograph too. š <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.eaa.org/eaa/about-eaa/eaa-history/paul-poberezny-eaa-founder&ved=2ahUKEwjys-ax4piIAxVMmIkEHU-vIbMQFnoECB8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1Bsn2FwpdfINuTM5W7r8Av>
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