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The Rand KR-2

The KR-2 homebuilt was the more common, two seat development of Ken Rand’s nineteen seventies, high efficiency, little single seat KR-1 sports plane – an early foray into foam and glassfibre constructed aeroplanes that preceded even the nowadays more common Vari-Eze. Ken Rand was a professional flight test engineer with the Douglas Aircraft Company, and he had previously been a keen pylon-racing model maker, so he knew what he was about.

Rand introduced similar, modelling style, low cost, inexpensive and quick building techniques to amateur aircraft construction, claiming that his aeroplanes would be easy for the new builder, requiring a minimum of workspace, tools and skills. It was designed around standard sized materials; for instance, the fuselage uses exactly five sheets of four foot by four foot plywood.