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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!

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