Dear Mr Locker, Please, do not pay too much attention to the tone of the replies you will get from this network. KR builders are passionate people, and as such, easily make passionate statements. That's part of the fun of belonging in this community.
Yet, among us, commonsense prevails. If your intentions are honest, and if you are serious about making series production of anything that can be used in a KR, let alone KRs themselves, you will only have more friends! This being said, a few things you say are surprising. For instance, the KR has a low service ceiling, low enough to make oxygen redundant; and anything redundant in such a light aircraft is not always welcome. Also, I am not too sure that the KR2's architecture is well suited for production. People trying to do what you say (build an affordable small plane) generally go for fiberglass monocoque construction, not wood-and-fiberglass. There must be some reasons for that...which I'm sure we will be happy to debate in lengths! Serge Vidal KR2 ZS-WEC Tunis, Tunisia -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On Behalf Of gerald locker Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 4:00 PM To: KR builders and pilots Subject: Re: KR>assembly plant --- Timothy Bellville <soner...@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > I sounds to me like you are trying to reinvent the > wheel. > It also sounds like you have no plan to benefit the > widow of the man that > designed this plain and construction concept. > Are you going to buy parts from R/R inc. ?Pay them > royalties? > This little plain was meant to be a homebuilt, and > built by people that > could not afford a Cessna. > You are trying to stand on the shoulders of others > to make a buck. > I for one, do not want to see a bunch of "factory > built" KR's showing up on > NTSB reports and dragging down the name of this well > designed and conceived > aircraft. > Come up with your own concept, and hire a > Aeronautical engineer to invent > your new store-bought and leave the KR's to those > that love to build and fly > them. > I for one will not help you, and I don't think you > will find much help here! > Timothy Bellville > (homebuilt) KR2 N7038V Dear Mr. Bellville, I appreciat your response though I cannot agree with you on most of your assumptions. My partner and I are going to be working with Jenette at RR in every kit we buy, and if we do produce our own, we certainly will be paying royalties to her. \ We decided on the KR series since it incorporates everything we sought in a good airplane. It has the range, the looks, the relative speed we sought for our sales marketing to overseas, and to the States. We are building it because we feel that many would like to have a beautiful, safe, and reliable plane at a relatively inexpensive price, and without having to spend 1000 + hours building it. We have a sound program being set up and I am always open to suggestions that will benefit us and the KR family of owners and pilots. I am a former Marine General who has flown over 30 years, but I must admit that I am a novice at the building process and realize that the more I know, the better the plane will be. We want to include a BRS, a portable oxygen system, long range fuel tanks, transponder and GPS as part of the stock plane, not an option. I am very sorry that you do not wish to offer any sound advice to us because we are always ready to listen. My partner owns, as well as his brother Accuracy Technologies in Glendale and Ventura and we intend to do a lot of R&D on new engines and airplane parts to be put in our own planes, as well as for sale to the general public. We are spending our own money, and we want no ones money except those that are buying our product. We care for the plane as much as anyone else does. Our questions I asked still could use some answers. Thank you for writing and hop you will reconsider and write again. Thank You, Gerald Locker > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html
