After there were 5 million Veco Smoothie's sold and built through the years, they came up with this 1997 one. There were allegedly two original Palmer Smoothies, one with a sharp leading edge, thin wing for "smooth" wind flying and another with a more blunted wing slightly thicker. According to Bob Palmer, he wanted Veco to do the blunt wing, they made the other. The thick wing wasn't much known until these plans came along and Brodak started selling kits of the "original" Smoothie, as well as an ARF. Yours should be a nice flyer.
Here's my Dad's modified Veco job with inverted ST35 and wing mounted gear at the 1967 Nats at Los Alamitos, Ca.
Chris...