The real story of August 16th, 1985 at Plumpton Racecourse, Sussex. The Dakota was our secret 'Star of the Show'. There it stood in all of its glory. I knew I had commentated on it somewhere at another place and it suddenly came back to me where I had seen it. My dear old friend, David Boddington (Boddo) had made a number of them for the television series, Airline. At well over ten feet wingspan the Dakota was in the colours of Ruskin Airways. Standing beside this monster was David Johnson and his 13 year old son, Andrew. The thing that worried us all was, could it do what it had been secretly much modified to do? The aim of this beautiful monster was to break the World R/C Duration record of 7 hours and 52 minutes, presently held by America.
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