You mean Aircraft Spruce deliberately modified plans they sell to make them worse? What would the gain from that? They explained in a Kitplanes article awhile back that they don't make significant money on the plans themselves for these older designs (Some, like the Tailwind, are popular, but others sell only a few copies per year). They sell the older plans so people will build them and buy their raw material from Spruce. So why would they waste draftsmen's time changing plans to make them harder to use?
Mike Taglieri On Jun 17, 2015 11:06 AM, "Chris Kinnaman via KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > > On 6/16/2015 4:34 PM, Mike T via KRnet wrote: > >> What's the reason for these extraordinary delays? Lots of older >> plansbuilt >> plane designs (some going back to the 1950s) have let Aircraft Spruce take >> over the printing and shipping of plans. If nvaero isn't able to handle >> it, maybe they should consider that >> > Spruce did not "take over" the single aspect of vending the plans. Spruce > is the owner of the design rights, intellectual property etc of those older > plans-built designs for which they now sell plans. They bought the rights > when the opportunities arose. That's how they put themselves into the > position of being the source of the plans for those airplanes. The business > strategy was to then offer materials, components, etc to known customers > who had purchased plans from them. The original designers or subsequent > supporters of those designs, prior to Spruce, are no longer involved with > the designs as far as I know. > > Spruce has "re-drawn" some of the plans they are selling now. From > personal experience I know the current revisions of some of "their" designs > have lost much in translation. > > Chris K > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options >
