Jeanette has dine a lot for the KR community besides the
plans. I have been a supporter of her since 1974., Virg
On 6/16/2015 11:26 PM, Mike T via KRnet wrote:
> 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 !
>>
>>
