Oriole 020 (oz14251)

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Oriole 020. Free flight sport model for Cox Pee Wee .020 engine.

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Quote: "Hi Steve and Mary, I am attaching plans and instructions for the Dare Designs .020 sized Oriole. I recently picked up a .049 sized Oriole kit that plans were missing. I ended up contacting Terry Dean whose family started Dare Designs. Unfortunately I could not find the .049 plans but did locate the plans and instructions for the .020 version. I am also including a little background info from Terry about the company [se below]. Thanks for all you do!"

Quote: "There was the .020 F/F Oriole and then the larger .049 R/C Oriole. Wonderful flying models that Jim [Dean] designed. Briefly: In the late 1980 thru the much of the 1990's we had a company in Canada laser cutting parts for us. Then Brodak Mfg began doing all out laser work. The Canadian company folded about 2004 I believe. We always had duplicate computer files on everything we designed (Jim did all our Autocad computer work). I think the early Dare laser/design were in PLT and dxf files? I probably have all of them, but no one can do anything with them since Jim is gone.

John Brodak bought Dare Design in 2014 when my two brothers wanted to retire. John was a close friend of ours. He agreed to continue using the Dare Design name as long as one of us was still alive. John died about 2-years ago if I recall. The only ones remaining are my brother, Alvin, and me. The Dare name continues.

I stayed with Dare when the company was sold, working from home (Cumberland, MD) doing consulting and customer care work. I'm also involved in the pre-production work for all new Dare (Brodak/Dare) designs. Our only full-time designer is Pat Tritle (Albuquerque, NM). Pat has worked for us for nearly three decades. He had been a very close friend as well.

I forget the name of the program he was using at that time, but when we changed from that to something more up to date, the two Orioles got overlooked. I still have all the early cutting files, but no one knows what to do with them as far as conversion goes. Therefore, these two kits are no longer in production. I would really like to reintroduce these kits, but that may not happen."

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