On Jan 7, 11:03*pm, "Peter Dohm" wrote:
"flybynightkarmarepair" wrote in message
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On Jan 7, 6:15 pm, Monk wrote:
http://www.ioffer.com/i/83668696

Anyone here bought from this guy? I don't think this is the licensed
copy since he's selling several and in CD format.

He's pirating someone else's intellectual property. *Do not buy from
this guy. *The designer is still alive, and has explictly decided NOT
to sell plans in North America, after bad experiences with licensing
them to Falconar Avia Back In The Day.

To quote a rather infamous comic strip character: *"pfffttt!!!!"

OTOH, although I used to think that the CriCri was an incredibly cool
concept, I am now convinced that it was really designed to make the BD-5
look like a "Mil-Spec" item. *This is mostly because, although I do admit
that I have never personally seen a CriCri,. I seem to recall reading a lot
of the skins are 0.010 aluminum. *(Cringe)

I have only seen one BD-5,(in a museum), and never seen a Cricri.
I'm also not familiar with the details of the safety record for
either.
But based only on a casual perusal of material available on the
internet
I would speculate that more Cri-cris have been safely flown in a
single
day than there have been BD 5s flown, ever.


However, I am not favorably impressed with those who seem to assert
"intellectual property rights" simply to keep engineering precedent from
public view.

Happily that is not relevant to the present discussion.


Therefore, IMHO, if you really intend to build this thing, please include me
in your will. *But if you are simply curious about Michel Columban's design,
this may be the only way--and $20 plus shipping sounds reasonable enough.


I'm sure you can get a similarly good deal on slightly used tools if
you are
willing to buy them hot.