Plans for OT veco dakota FF

I do not know where plans are available, but I am sure someone knows where they can be obtained...however, I also heard that there is source that makes a replica kit of the Dakota...maybe they are reading your inquiry and can provide that information.. Frank

Google: it's a wonderful thing

or a kit:

With a 24 inch wingspan and a speed 400 it should make a screamingly fast park flyer.

I'm building a 24-inch wingspan Super Solution that I'm planning on powering with a little GWS IPS-size motor.

Joe Wagner sells plans for the Dakota, and the Sioux. Also, he has plan

supplements for electric conversion. His contact information is liste on the Smallnet website. He is very easy to talk with

-- challenger_

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The Dakota was not a new kit when I built one in 1954. I powered i with a McCoy 049 diesel because I did not have a place to store battery and glow fuel. It was much easier to hide a half pint o diesel fuel than a pint of glow fuel and starting battery. Flew al summer on that half pint. I was an aviation cadet stationed at Hond Texas at the time

-- Chuck

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Where did you hide the plane? mk

Dakota would be easy to hide with 24" wingspan in a foot locker if one made wings detachable. I did that with Top Flite R/C

It would not surprise me that as a pilot trainee, probably had a little more leeway with the plane on display in his room.

Unless you want a 50mph plus model,..in which case a direct drive speed

I'm a newbee to electrics. Then a 280 motor would be the ticket?

My Dumas Dakota kit does not have full size plans, and I don't think th

Veco kit had them either.

Best check to see that your getting the full size plans, and not th Veco style assembly drawings.

Bill Adai

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I'm building the BMJR DAKOTA right now. Great kit, $40 and well wort

it. Laser parts go together like a fine picture puzzle.

I built the VECO almost 50 years ago when I was 25 or so. I put Holland WASP in it, and flew it from Hicksville Field on Long Island One day I overfilled the tank and away she went, OOS. I had my addres and phone number on it. I lived in Franklin Square at the time. (I ha just finished a cruise on the USS WASP flying Banshee's the yea before.)

The next day I got a phone call from a man in Garden City. He found i and I went to his house and picked it up. He told me it landed at the Garde City Long Island Railroad station. It caused quite a stir, as mos people thought it was an aircraft landing with a dead engine.

Hicksville Field back then was a potato field open to modellers durin the winter. Today it is Levittown.

Anyway, I bought one of the OK .049 Cubs with a plastic tank for $3 from the OK owner who had a large supply of them in an old warehouse Brand new.

They had a neddle valve problem. There was no taper on them, so ground one down. I hope it runs. This was a fix I heard about.

Mine is for FF. I have no idea where I'll fly it, but I'm having a bal building it

-- Ed Tone

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Better put your name as addy in this one too. :) mk