ORIGINAL: allanflowers
John,
I assume from your message that STO is the manufacturer and Striecher works for STO?
The Airworld USA and Airworld Germany site both strongly imply that the R-3 was a historic design, "discovered" by Horst and made into a scale model. I do not believe this design existed at all in the thirties. Its themes are classic Gee Bee but its dna is not at all.
What do you think happened here? Did Mirco Pecorari come up with the original design or not?
Allan
[:'(] Funny that s-t-o are the first 3 letters of stolen.
I'm with Mirco and will be interested to see how all of this shakes out legally. Like the plane a lot but don't appreciate in the least that it's ONLY available as a [:@]$3500 kit and there's no plans available for mere mortals. With plans we could make changes where lines are not appealing to us.
Bill Kohler