Bob Hartmaier wrote:
Are original KR-2 plans still available? If so, at what price?
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Jeannette Rand stopped selling KR plans several years ago, RR closed
their doors, and appearances are that she is retired. For a while,
nvAero was apparently allowed to sell them on her behalf, is my
understanding. A few years ago Jeannette announced that plans were no
longer available, and that no-one had permission to reproduce or sell
them. So there is no longer any source for KR2S or other plans, other
than some bootleg copies that I hear may be available on ebay or
elsewhere, or unused (or used) copies of plans that folks have laying
around in their garages, etc.
FreeBird is an effort to remedy this problem, by posting
free-to-download PDF plans for those who'd like to build what will
become the next generation of KR-like homebuilt planes. See
http://www.freebirdplans.org/ for more on that.
There's a lot more going on with the FreeBird design behind the scenes
now, thanks to two dedicated CAD guys who are making real progress in
solid modeling and visualization images, as well as plans themselves.
These plans will incorporate many of the changes that KR builders have
been making, such as wider fuselages, and extra fuselage bay, the new
airfoils, flaps, larger canopy, and that sort of thing, as well as
details that were left to the imagination of the builder previously.
It's been way too long since I updated the site, and I'll try to do that
in the next week or two.
Also, we've had a very good "Fuselage Construction Chapter" written,
(thanks to Chris Gardiner) and am looking for other volunteers to write
other chapters on the construction phase, etc. The idea is not a simple
"knock-off" of the plans version, but a serious effort at filling in the
blanks such as materials, sources, best practices, etc. Let me know if
you'd like to tackle on of these chapters.
Thanks,
Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.n56ml.com
Huntsville, AL
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