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| Kevin McKiou created the excellent Stingray all-composite S8E model for use at the FAI WSMC level. He later also created the Cuda R/C R/G, as an easier and much less expensive design using balsa skinned foam core wings and laser-cut balsa parts. He created a small company called VectorAero to sell them. Unfortunately, Kevin shut down "VectorAero" several years back. Here is a link to an ARCHIVE of VectorAero on the Internet Archive. | The Cuda files and plans are presented with the following provision by designer Kevin McKiou: "I have no problem making any of this stuff public. In fact, the more people have the information, the more likely it is to live on. I think the only caveat I would place on it is that if anybody uses any of the design information - even if they change it - they must make their work "open source" and available free to the public. This would be like a GNU open source software license. This would not prevent anyone from making kits, but if anyone uses Cuda designs as the basis for a kit of a new design, they must make their design and documentation available free to the public. The same with the airfoils." | Cuda Instruction Manual as PDF file. KM7 Airfoil Coordinates. Cuda Plans as GIF File Cuda Plans as PDF File Cuda Plans as HPGL File Cuda Plans as a DXF File, Zipped More to come later. | 
Kevin (left) flying his Stingray in S8E
at the 1996 WSMC in Slovenia
Kevin was on the US Team that took the
Team Silver Medal at the 1996 WSMC
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