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Lex C. Taylor
Bedford, TX
 Attached,
please find 3 photos of my Dare Designs Fokker DR-1. This is the larger
of your two offerings, the one with a 30" or so top span. I had
previously been successful with managing to make a Guillows DR-1 fly
with R/C and a reworked GWS gearbox and that gave me three-wing-fever!!
 The
kit was a joy to build. I love the Great plans/design (Thanks Pat!). I
built the plane from the start to be an indoor flyer and initially used
an Ikarus 280 gear drive, the one for their foam Bleriot. This proved to
be a good power choice on seven cells. I really liked the grumbling roar
the gearbox made adding kind of a scale touch. Even though the plane was
to be an indoor flyer, I did nothing to lighten the airframe and in fact
added diagonals in the fuselage sides and the bottom. This small
addition made a truly non-twistable fuselage. The Ikarus drive started
to give me problems and so I next went to a GWS 280 "C" drive straight
off of a Slow Stick. This swinging the stock 10 X 8 prop had even more
power and the plane really flew with authority. As time has worn on the
last year or so, and brushless motors and Li Pos have come into vogue, I
wanted to update my Fokker and so now, we are on power system number
three.
 The
DR-1 now sports a BM 2408-21 brushless outrunner swinging anything from
a 8X6 to a 10X4.7 GWS prop and controlled with an E-Flite 20 amp speed
control on a 2s 800Mah Li Po pack. The plane is now ridiculously
overpowered for less weight than the battery pack of the first power set
up!!! The DR-1 loafs around at 1/3 power. I have been flying the Fokker
now for a couple of years and I look forward to many more.
The
particulars of the construction are: It was assembled with CA and just a
few dabs of epoxy. It is covered in Nelson Lite Film with some custom
made crosses and some robbed from a GWS Light Stick. The wheels are
DuBros. Its all up ready to fly weight is 13.2 ounces.
I thank you
folks so much for making a line of truly MODEL aircraft and not
behemoths! I have always thought models should be about this size and I
love the modern small R/C equipment and new power plants that make
controllable small models possible. I have my eye on your Eindekker for
a future project.
Thanks again
for a great product! |
