I wouldn't know why, but my re-drawn "improved" plans for Steve Wittman's V-Witt aren't what I would call an improvement over the originals after comparing.
On 6/20/2015 9:45 AM, Mike T via KRnet wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
